One of the categories presented is the Shorts - same production involved except the run time is limited to 15 minutes. They show 8 of them back to back which gets me somewhat antsy - hard to sit there. But once they start, they're good.
The short competition is like getting into Harvard - 5,000 submissions and they select 100. So "they are all outstanding in some way" as a Stanford student put it to me. Can't argue with those numbers.
There are narrative shorts and there are documentary shorts. I like the documentary form better - the narratives were by necessity designed to shock. The documentaries were surprising enough. The old Truth v. Fiction proverb.... we'll start with Documentary Short 2 seen in the comforts of the Topfer Theather at the ZACH.
Born to Be Mild - spotlights English senior men who collect/follow a variety of quirky things e.g photos of mailboxes
Calls to Okies: The Park Grubbs Story - Bartlesville, OK 80s teens records their increasingly sophisticated prank phone calls
The Little Deputy - Trevor wants to take a photo cross dressing but is concerned what his father would think.
Love Has No Age - Man and woman who were lovers as young people come together as seniors to recreate photos of themselves
Spearhunter - Col. Gene Morris advocates for hunting by spear throwing.
Terms of Intimacy - Cuddling for Fun and Profit at the Cuddle Connection LLC
Tiger Hood - black man plays street golf in New York City
Unmappable - Ph.D. geographer shows his darker, anarchistic side
My favorite: Park Grubbs
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And the Narratives:
Baby - a look through a high-rise window at a woman with a drinking problem
Donald and Jess - plumber comes to fix a leak for a lonely young woman - Not X rated
Followers - senior woman thinks she is falling for a strapping young black man in Cardiff, Wales
Guest Room - 2 teens with Downs Syndrome fall in love
Hallway - a scene in a club in New York
Happy With Bear- a look through a high-rise window at a woman with an eating disorder
Myrna the Monster - Myrna is an immigrant creature from the Moon living in L.A.
We'll Find Something - 2 couples look for a restaurant all night long in New York. Thanks Seinfeld.
My favorite: Donald and Jess
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