Don’t Miss the Rural Route and Go Organic! Film Festival
Friday and Saturday, April 25 and April 26
8:00 PM, 237 N. East Street, Indianapolis
Friday Night: Rural Route Film Festival:
Some Highlights
Dear Deer
Alan Webber, 2007, 4.5 min., narrative
New York, NY
It’s an alternate take on nature vs. urbanity when a plastic lawn
doe finds herself lost on the gritty streets of Brooklyn, NY.
Survival story, and a folktale of newfound love – the bewildered
deer gets “caught in the headlights” and hit by an oncoming car
while trying to scamper across the street, but is found by a
magical street faerie who nurses it, making bandages, food and
water appear with a magic wand. The doe regains her health, and
wanders back onto sunnier streets. She can’t believe her eyes
when she happens upon something truly special under the
Queensborough Bridge. Features the music of Bright Eyes’ “Make
a Plan to Love Me”.
Snowies
Elliott Kennerson, 2006, 12 min., doc
Flathead Lake, MT
Elliott Kennerson, an MFA candidate in Montana State University’s
Science and Natural History Filmmaking Program, and Jeremy Roberts,
an avid birdwatcher, follow an unusually large group of stunning, allwhite
Arctic Snowy Owls. Intelligent and enlightening, the film is also
honest and funny as we witness the filmmakers missing some of the
best owl shots because they accidentally turn the camera off or
compose their frame wrong. Our guides also become a bit sidetracked
upon meeting a couple of lady birdwatchers, who they believe are “after
them.” A brief and delightful alternative to the often-dry standard
wildlife documentary.
In The Glow (Pick #1 from Lights are On, but Nobody’s Home program)
Stewart Copeland, 2006, 8 min., exp
Interstates and highways between St. Louis, MO and Tullahoma, TN
Part personal film, part pseudo-scientific study and part observational
essay, Copeland’s film explores the banal (yet strangely beautiful)
world of blank billboards. While many creatures (including the filmmaker)
have an attraction to this ‘advertisement free’ light, Webster
University’s Head of Biological Sciences teaches us that the massive
intrusion of mile-after-mile of unnatural billboard light disturbs insect
life cycles, plants, and on up through the ecosystem.
Wanderlust 2: Thunder on the Track
Walter Forsberg, 2004, 5 min., doc
Creelman, Saskatchewan, Canada
Inspired by stock car crash videos, this micro-documentary gives a
1980s glance into the sensational Saskatchewan Lawnmower Racing
Circuit. In the hallowed Winnipeg tradition of image degradation, this
work demeans cinematic imagery into a bygone videoscopic era of the
movies. www.winnipegfilmgroup.com
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