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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
Teenage Vanessa Lemor (Ellen Hornberger) and boyfriend Philip Georgey (Miles Thompson) aren't quite seeing eye to eye. Already signed up for his summer Spanish class and settled in as the manager of the ice-cream stand, he's ready to move on to better relationships. Meanwhile, neighborhood child eccentrics Hercules Howard (Zachary Lapes) and Nothing Madeline Amigone (Samantha Futerman) contend against their self-imposed solitude and societal fringe status. As the three lonely souls bond together, it's clear that Suzi Yoonessi's ambitious Dear Lemon Lima isn't a short film really; it's a feature waiting to happen.
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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
As if taking a loving jab at modernity's obsession with personal chronicle, Benjamin Kasulke's Crustväska simply points a camera at two men and captures their conversation, and although the comparison might seem apt, the subtly and infectiously funny slice of life short carves its own niche that well outshines home video stylings.
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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
At the top of an apartment building, a certain quiet, adoring Him (Joshua Safdie) lives alone. At the bottom a hard to approach Her (Charlotte Pinson) has caught his eye. It's only when litterbug neighbor Stephen (Stephen Schneider), who lives in the floor between the two, throws garbage out of his window that the two see each other at all, or rather only he sees the back of her head. Smart, absurd and heartwarmingly innocent, Joshua Safdie's The Back of Her Head is a dessert short, that euphoriant treat that could in endless play still mesmerize with its sweetness and richness of story.
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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
In Columbia, a country struggling with civil war and severe poverty, fervor for the beauty pageant counters the social strife with a hopeful, sometimes kitschy supremacy. In a women's prison, the inmates battling boredom, frustration and depression, the pageants function the same way, serving as a necessary annual reprieve from the bitterness of being without family, security and freedom. Following four contestant favorites, Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega's Academy-award nominated short doc La Corona (The Crown) explores without judgement the lives of armed robbers, murderesses and criminals born of desperation as each primps and pines for the coveted title.
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Written by Kim Storeygard
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
Directed by New York toasted comediennes Negin Farsad and Kimmy Gatewood, Nerdcore Rising explores the viability of being a professional Nerdcore rapper and also touches on the potential lifespan of the genre itself (Can it garner success as a comical parody of "real" hip-hop? Is it wide-reaching enough to be sustainable?). As the film follows Frontalot and his band (Gaby Alter, keyboards; Brandon Patton, bass; Sturgis Cunningham, drums) through their first national tour, I became more involved in watching this very simple documentary than I have in any other film so far this year. This is not necessarily because of my own nerdy history but because Frontalot and co. are personable, hilarious, quick-witted and obviously very smart folks. (Nerds are usually pretty smart people, you know?)
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