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LES – Film Festival 2005

LES - The 10th Annual Festival of the Arts holds its LES Film Festival
segment on Saturday, May 28th, 12pm -12am. LES features live music,
theater, and dance performances during Memorial Day Weekend.

For movie lovers, Saturday's all-day-movie-buttnumbathon will be
downstairs in the Cabaret space at Theater for The New City on 1st Ave
between 9th and 10th streets, Crystal Field, Creative Director. This
year's program features Jim Jarmusch's COFFEE AND CIGARETTES (2004), a
revival of Richard Crawford's CAPTAIN MILKSHAKE (1969), short docs,
features, and clever animations by local filmmakers and organizations.
FREE ADMISSION. A.M. Lewis, 2005 Film Festival Curator, promises
healthy snacks, popcorn treats, and other give-aways for all
cinephiles.

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue
(between 9th and 10th Streets)

11:50 - INTRODUCTION

12:00 - THE WITCH AND THE COW, 3 minutes, Signe Baumane, Filmmaker
A short tale of a witch and a cow. (Animation, 2005)

12:05 - RESIST!, 50 minutes, Dirk Szuszies, Filmmaker
Civil disobedience! No more war! Resist! The Living Theatre in radical
action, then and now. (Documentary, 2003)

1:00 - MISSILE DICK CHICKS, 5 minutes, Randy Cecchine, Filmmaker
A posse of pissed-off housewives from Crawford, Texas, home of our
beloved President. (Documentary, 2004)

1:05 - HOT PEACHES, 30 minutes, Jimmy Camicia and George Capewel, Filmmakers
Drag, theater, cabaret, and the irreverent brilliance of Queer New
York. (Documentary, 1990?)

1:40 - BOXED, 15 minutes, Julie Retzlaff, Filmmaker
A teenage girl's angst meets her coming of age meets her identity
quest. (Drama, 2004)

1:55 - CHEER UP!, 13 minutes, Jen Nedbalsky and Mary Christmas, Filmmakers
Radical pro-choice cheerbloc, fight for women's rights with pom-poms.
(Documentary, 2004)

2:10 - WOMAN, 10 minutes, Signe Baumane, Filmmaker
The creation and revelations of woman. (Animation, 2002)

2:20 - ON HER OWN TERMS, 11 minutes, W.R. Adams and Patricia Belfanti,
Filmmakers
An artist lives her life on the streets of NYC and struggles to keep
painting no matter what. (Documentary, 2004)

2:30 - CLASS DISMISSED, 28 minutes, PaperTiger TV
High school textbooks, historians, and NYC teens collide in a test of
real knowledge. (Documentary, 2004)

3:00 - READY OR NOT, 17 minutes, DCTV's ConnecTV Project
Three high school senior boys with different disabilities face
graduation and their future. (Documentary, 2004)

3:20 - MONEY PROBLEMS! , 10 minutes, DCTV's Pro-TV (Teen Filmmakers)
16-year old students explore themes of money problems and how it
impacts their daily lives. (Documentary, 2004)

3:30 - BABA CHIEF BEY, 12 minutes, Iris Goodwin, Filmmaker
Interview of the late African drum master jazz-crossover artist, Baba
Chief Bey. (Documentary, 2004)

3:45 - FLIGHT SAFETY, 8 minutes, Fluid Motion Theater & Film, Inc.
Frank is easy to find on Tuesdays. He's at JFK, rating the big jets.
(Drama, 2003)

3:55 - JABBA-JAW: CURSE OF THE TROLL, 8 minutes, Jon Andrews and Nyree
S. Ali, Filmmakers
An evil witch, a troll, a hit-woman, mobsters, and young kids all
cross paths in the woods. (Drama, 2005)

SPEAKER: Ray Skerrit, Filmmaker, LES Videographer, discusses the art
of "indie" filmmaking in NYC.

4:05 – THERAPY, 18 minutes, Hilton Ruiz, Filmmaker
Group therapy and the ties-that-bind strangers in post-9/11 downtown.
(Drama, 2003)

4:25 - ONDAS INDIGENAS/INDIGENOUS WAVES, 11 minutes, PaperTiger TV
Community radio DJ's in the high plains of Bolivia struggle to
preserve Aymaran culture. (Documentary, 2004)

4:35 - THE STORK, 3 minutes, Nina Paley, Filmmaker
A shrewd message about population, consumption, and the environment.
(Animation, 2002)

4:40 - THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION, 15 minutes, IraqEYE GROUP, Filmmakers
Children share their vision of life in Baghdad under US occupation.
(Documentary, 2004)

4:55 – TODAY, 30 minutes, Michael Stern, Filmmaker
An apocalypse sends true love in opposite directions on the LIE. (Drama, 2004)

5:30 – TEA, 15 minutes, Christine Simpson and Michelle Chen, Filmmakers
A modern-day Narcissus enters a tearoom where a modern-day Echo works.
(Drama, 2003)

5:45 - TO SKIN A CAT, 22 minutes, Dan O'Berry, Filmmaker
For Nick, opening the door to his girlfriend's past brings every thing
present. (Drama, 2004)

SPEAKER: Dan O'Berry

6:10 - DINNER BREAK

7:10 - HOW I KNOW YOU, 4 minutes, Matt Timms, Filmmaker
A dark comedic short about familiar faces. (Drama, 2005)

7:15 – DENTIST, 10 minutes, Signe Baumane, Filmmaker
A visit to the dentist: perhaps the most horrifying of all human
confrontations. (Animation, 2005)

7:25 - THE THREATENED ONE, 3 minutes, Signe Baumane, Filmmaker
An interpretation of the poem by Jorge Luis Borges. (Animation, 1999)

7:30 – NATASHA, 10 minutes, Signe Baumane, Filmmaker
A story about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a vacuum
cleaner. (Animation, 2001)

SPEAKER: Signe Baumane

7:45 - SITA SINGS THE BLUES (4 Chapters), 16 minutes, Nina Paley, Filmmaker
The Ramayana: Dandaka Dharma; Abduction of Sita; Hanuman Finds Sita;
and Trial By Fire. (Animation, 2005)

8:05 - FINYL VINYL, 15 minutes, A.M. Lewis, Filmmaker
Stories and confessions of an east village record store. (Documentary, 2005)

SPEAKER: A.M. Lewis, Writer, Filmmaker, LES Film Festival Curator

8:30 - COFFEE AND CIGARETTES, 95 minutes, Jim Jarmusch, Filmmaker
Quirky bits of life shared over coffee and cigarettes. (Drama, 2003)

SPEAKER: Lissa Moira, Writer, Director, and Actor

10:10 - THE INTERVENTION, 15 minutes, Duplass Brothers, Filmmakers
The truth of childhood crimes, adult fictions, and hidden identities.
(Drama, 2005)

10:25 – SCRABBLE, 11 minutes, Duplass Brothers, Filmmakers
Things turn ugly when a couple plays Scrabble. (Drama, 2004)

10:40 - CAPTAIN MILKSHAKE, 89 minutes, Richard Crawford, Filmmaker
A story of free love, cheap grass, and anti-war protests at Berkeley
originally banned by US Military. (Drama, 1969)

12:10 - FIVE F*CKING FABLES, 7 minutes, Signe Baumane, Filmmaker
Five separate, slightly immoral stories. (Animation, 2002)

12:20 - GODS OF TIMES SQUARE, 112 minutes, Richard Sandler, Filmmaker
Ego-mania, prophetic discourse, madness and the need for sleep
converge on Times Square. (Documentary, 1999).

SPEAKER: Richard Sandler

END PROGRAM - THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue
(between 9th and 10th Streets)