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The Procussions: "The Storm"
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Pocket Shorts: Brief but sweet 'Inner Shorts'
Through modern rotoscoping technology, filmmaker Matthew Austin\r\ngives us four quick and poignant moments animated with vibrant color and\r\ncinematic elegance. Presented by Pocket Shorts UK and featured in the\r\n2006 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Pocket Shorts--Soap, dinosaurs and dismay in "Evil Fun"
A young boy's impatience leads to the loss of his best friend and\r\nshatters the illusions of childhood in Andy Sykes' witty animated film\r\nfrom Pocket Shorts UK. Featured in the 2006 San Francisco International\r\nFilm Festival.
Boards of Canada: "Dayvan Cowboy"
Directed by Melissa Olson, the first ever official music video from Boards of Canada is truly a thing of beauty. Suspended on the edge of space in a balloon, an astronaut looks down at the beautiful planet earth and prepares to dive in. Leaping from the balloon, he floats down through the earth's atmosphere, dense cloud cover and into the ocean. The daredevil voyager emerges from the chaos of the sea on a surf board, riding a huge wave to the shore. Using reassembled documentary footage, the video to "Dayvan Cowboy" translates the power and atmosphere of Boards Of Canada's music into a dreamlike, imaginary journey from space, into the sea and to the shore, in one continuous sequence.
'Pocket Shorts': The dark side of cellular
Five animated films from Pocket Shorts UK show there may be more\r\nlife in your cell phone than you thought. A stressed smiley face finds\r\nitself trapped in Cellular Hell in Leo Earle and Philip Walker's\r\n"Release," while Ellie Weir's "Gremlin" wreaks havoc. Featured in the\r\n2006 San Francisco International Film Festival.
"No Direction Home: Bob Dylan" DVD trailer
The film, which focuses on the singer-songwriter's life and music from 1961-66, includes never-seen performance footage and interviews with artists and musicians whose lives intertwined with Dylan's during that time. Dylan talks openly and extensively about this critical period in his career, detailing the journey from his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, to Greenwich Village, New York, where he became the center of a musical and cultural upheaval, the effects of which are still felt today. For the first time, The Bob Dylan Archives has made available rare treasures from its film, tape and stills collection, including footage from Murray Lerner's film Festival documenting performances at the 1963, 1964 and 1965 Newport Folk Festivals, previously unreleased outtakes from D.A. Pennebaker's famed 1967 documentary "Don't Look Back", and interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Maria Muldaur, and many others. In anticipation of the film, members of Dylan's worldwide community of fans also contributed rarities from their own collections.
Pocket Shorts: Quick feet, quicker beats and things to do while\r\n'Waiting'
In 'While You Were Waiting,' Andrew Quinn and Gary McKeown create\r\nas many arms, legs and bodies as they need for themselves to create\r\nquick, improvisational beats, all in the name of killin' some time.\r\nPresented by Pocket Shorts UK and featured in the 2006 San Francisco\r\nInternational Film Festival.
Featuring fierce rivalry, stopwatch suspense, and larger-than-life personalities, "Murderball", winner of the Documentary Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize for Editing at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is a film about tough, highly competitive rugby players. Quadriplegic rugby players. Whether by car wreck, fist fight, gun shot, or rogue bacteria, these men were forced to live life sitting down. In their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash the hell out of each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. And, no, they don't wear helmets. From the gyms of middle America to the Olympic arena in Athens, Greece, "Murderball" tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled. It is a film about family, revenge, honor, sex (yes, they can) and the triumph of love over loss. But most of all, it is a film about standing up, even after your spirit - and your spine - has been crushed.
SF IndieFest trailer: "Subject Two"
Bay Area writer and director Philip Chidel's "Subject Two" received its World Premiere at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. SF IndieFest screenings are at the Roxie Cinema on February 5, 2006 at 9:30 p.m. and at the Women's Building on February 11, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
Click here for more trailers, interviews, and videos from the 8th Annual SF IndieFest.
"Dave Chappelle's Block Party" trailer
Shot on location in downtown Brooklyn, NY, the film features the brilliant comedy stylings of Dave Chappelle, along with one-time-only performances by Kanye West, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Dead Prez, Jill Scott, and The Roots, among others. Inspired in part by the 1973 documentary "Wattstax," the film was directed by Academy Award-winning Michel Gondry, with cinematography by Ellen Kuras.
