Program:

La Big Fiesta animation 8min, 16mm, 1999
Director: Max Coniglio

La Big Fiesta is a hand drawn animation. A slice of Neopolitan life through the eyes of an Italian American. Max Coniglio is a native from Naples, Italy and has been drawing cartoons as early as he can remember. Max works from memory and has used animation as a tool for capturing those memories and recreating them the way he remembers them.

Texture of Influence 3min, 16mm on video, 1998
Director: Ana Miljacki

A meditation on the traces left by people and events, on hard, soft and wet influences that come to constitute who we are. A film goes through an equivalent process. The music for this short was produced by Gunnar Hartman and Stuart Smith, and was subsequently treated in the editing as equivalent in importance to the images which preceded and inspired it. The film was treated both as a medium that simply records, and more self-consciously, as a medium that we imprint with layers of images. Ana Miljacki was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She left the country in 1991, just as the decade of Balkan wars was beginning. Since her arrival to America, Ana has studied architecture, design, and the performing arts. She currently lives in Boston and is working toward a Ph.D. in Architecture at Harvard University. Ana has presented several of her films, installations and performances in Belgrade, Houston and Boston.

Medicine Show 7min, video, 1999
Director: Jacqueline Goss

In ŒMedicine Show' work related desires and fears take the form of a woman's obsession with a TV doctor and the machines that created her. It's good to know when to quit your day job. Jacqueline Goss works with many electronic media in order to give voice to understated or silenced stories of both real and imagined women. In some of her videotapes, Goss uses her own natural speaking voice to offer up off-kilter interpretations of historical and fictional female characters which are crafted to fit into personal narratives. In other works, Goss reshapes found footage to let the characters speak for.

Some Bewildered Beast 4min, 16mm, 1997
Director: Bob Harris

Travel diary as dream...memories uncovered 13 years after the journey....a semi-random sifting through an accumulation of images. Resonant of contemporary Latin American fictions terrain of imaginary realism. Bob Harris is a Film/Videomaker and Professor of Communications/Media (Fitchburg State College). Bob's works seek to extend the parameters of the documentary while exploring text/image relations. He has screened his works at festivals Nationally and Internationally at Whitney Museum of American Art; Museo Laboratorio Di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Exit Art; Palais de Beux Arts, Brussels and others. Prior to teaching, Bob played a significant role in the foundation and establishment of the Video Department at Anthology Film Archives in New York City.

I wanna be President of Serbia 3min, video, 1999
Director: Milan Rasic

A young man takes to the streets of Serbia in a humorous attempt to win the presidency while making a witty commentary on Serbian politics and the current state of the country. These two videos represent the LOW-FI VIDEO project. LOW-FI VIDEO is a project with no expiry date, its mission being the advancement of the aesthetics of non-pretencious cinema and the subversion of elitism on film. The project considers video-technology boom a very useful ally in the struggle for the above mentioned goals. LOW-FI VIDEO is based in Serbia. Owing to the current situation in the country, the project now works under very difficult conditions, but the faith in its cinematic mission still keeps the project participants active.

The Trees 3min, video with live performance, 2000
Director: Jonathan Schwartz

This is three minutes of film images set to a rhyme. The images were photographed by Jonathan Schwartz. The sounds being played along to the images will be by Jonathan and Tessa Carpenter.

The Haunted Head 15min, s8, 80s
Director: Dima Ballin

When I was 13, I realized how much I loved to shock people. So, to the chagrin of my poor parents, I decided to stop going to school and become a filmmaker. This film was my second effort. Utilizing all available friends and enemies I had in high school, and my parents' apartment as my set, I shot this film in 6 days

Diva Abduction 15min, video with live performance, 2000
Director: Dillon Paul

Sit back, relax and enjoy your abduction. A native of Boston, Dillon has been watching movies at the Coolidge Corner theater since 1986. She likes performing in outside and non-traditional spaces, and in 1999 she co-founded the Outside Art Collective in Boston to promote interdisciplinary collaborations among artists in all media. Her work has been presented at Mobius, the Public Gardens, and the Milky Way in Boston, as well as Context Studios in New York City and AS220 in Providence, RI. In addition to performing her own work, she has performed with Min Tanaka in Japan; Neta Pulvermacher and Poppo & the GoGo Boys in New York; and she has toured nationally and internationally as a member of Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works. She is currently a first year Master of Fine Arts student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.