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June 26, 2021.DUFF presents part 1 of the 20/21 season, featuring entries submitted in 2020.
Althea Center Theater
1400 Williams St
Denver, CO 80218
6 pm - 7 pm Filmmakers reception
Ticket holders invited.
Complimentary appetizers.
7 pm - 10 pm Film Show.
$12 General Admission
Tickets available at :
https://filmfreeway.com/DenverUndergroundFilmFestival
60% of box office goes to filmmakers.
Program and award winners included below
On site parking.
Downstairs location. No ADA access
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0700 - FIRST PROGRAM
2020
Director: Tom Bessoir. Queens, NY.
Experimental film. 01:41 minutes.
A film for 2020, a year to remember.
2020 different colors create a flicker film.
Music by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
2020 receives an Honorable Mention for Best Musical Score.
The Stream X
Director: Hiroya Sakurai, Japan.
Experimental short. 06:53 minutes.
In the man-made waterways of rice paddies nature is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty.
In episode 10 of the series I replaced the underwater soundswith the outside sounds and the wind pushes the plants and algae as a metaphor for the liveliness of water.Professor Sakurai is a 3rd time DUFF return filmmaker.The Stream X receives an Honorable Mention for Best Cinematography and Best Audio Editing.
Stonecutter
Director: Jason Affolder. Jerome, AZ.
Short documentary. 10:00 minutes.
An impressionistic portrait of sculptor Scott Owens at work in his Jerome, Arizona studio, featuring candid stories
from a lifetime devoted to making art.
Stonecutter receives the Best Short Documentary Award.
Bearing Witness Triptych: Just Breathe the Air.
Directors: Jack Cochran and Pamela Falkenberg. Austin, TX.
Experimental short. 03:58 minutes.
Based on a found poem by Jack Cochran the film bears witness to the consequences of playing down the pandemic. Jack Cochran and Pamela Falkenberg are 2nd time DUFF return filmmakers. This film receives the award for Best of Fest.
How to Fall in Love in a Brothel
Director: Sunhui Chang, Portland, OR.
Narrative Short. 11:00 minutes.
Set in 1960 Incheon, South Korea. As a young country struggles to rebuild after the war two young people find love
in an unexpected and unlikely setting.
In Korean with English Subtitles.
This film receives the award for Second Place Narrative Short.
Battle
Director: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi. Turkey.
Experimental short. 03:06 minutes.
Eastern and western sensibilities of calligraphy and painting evoke a feeling of an inner battle. A salute to Stan Brakhage’s final film (Chinese Series) made during his own battle with cancer
by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernails to scratch marks into the emulsion. ‘Battle’ is about the
not so silent battles we fight.
Battle receives the award for Best Experimental Short.
On Color
Director: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi. Turkey.
Experimental short. 02:38 minutes.
The story of light after being birthed by the pitch black void preceding the universe which emerges as all the colors
of the visible spectrum, then flows back into the primordial state of pitch black ‘Khaos’.
Anagnorisis
Director: Arturo Dueñas Herrero. Valladolid, Spain.
Narrative short. 15:00 minutes.
A new doctor has just arrived at a nursing home where he meets a patient tormented by a past which he cannot remember. This doctor will help him do it
without anticipating the consequences.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
Anagnorisis receives the award for Best Narrative Short.
Samaritan
Director: Dustin Curtis Murphy. United Kingdom.
Narrative Short. 11:00 minutes.
An immigrant doctor, fearing deportation and living off grid, stumbles upon the unconscious body of a racist politician
who's been kidnapped and left for dead.
Samaritan receives an Honorable Mention for Best Cinematography.
Poly-Morphosis
Director: Margaret Hart. Weymouth, MA.
Animated short. 07:56 minutes.
Based on collage series the animation
weaves together many similar fragments used in the two-dimensional work and foregrounds gender and posthumanism through its animation sequences. Poly-Morphosis receives the award for Best Animated Short.
Tomorrow
Director: Shaun Parker. NSW, Australia.
Music video. 03:38 minutes.
The new music video by JamarzOnMarz depicts a rebellious uprising of diverse students led by JamarzOnMarz fighting for inclusivity. Tomorrow receives the Best Music Video award.
You're The Puppet
Director: Michael Charron. Los Angeles, CA.
Narrative short. 12:15 minutes.
Laramie and Leonard are the hottest comedy duo in the local scene. Tired of Leonard getting all the credit, Laramie considers branching out on his own.
Michael Charron is a 2nd time DUFF return filmmaker.
INTERMISSION 08:30 - 15:00 minutes
0830 - SECOND PROGRAM
Isthmus
Director: Scott Turri, Pittsburgh, PA.
Experimental short. 08:05 minutes.
Feel the pull of slow-moving luxurious waves attracted to one another by an unknown magnetic force.
Views
Director: David Wilde. Monroe, NH.
Experimental short. 08:14 minutes.
This video art is intended to capture the essential qualities of life in terms of pure visual and auditory perceptions with the overall experience like an extended look at a painting.
Mass For Shut-Ins
Director: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Lincoln, NE. USA.
Experimental Short. 07:54 minutes.
A fever dream. An infinitely morphing kaleidoscopic stained glass window. Bells that remind me of the sounds of Amsterdam, my second home after New York. A hand-painted 16mm camera-less Fluxus film.
Mother's Wishes
Director: Kendall Christianson. New Mexico / Los Angeles.
Narrative short. 13:36 minutes.
After years of apart a young man reluctantly takes a trip with his father in an attempt to rekindle something
between the two that has been long lost for decades. Mother's Wishes receives Third Place for Best Narrative Short.
Orbital Discourse
Director: Marc Cartwright. Los Angeles, CA.
Experimental short. 07:53 minutes.
A meditation on the relationship between
self-perception and ideological bickering.
This film receives Third Place for Best Experimental Short.
Sometimes a little Sin Is Good For the Soul
Director: Alex Beriault. Canada/Germany.
Experimental short. Digitized 16mm color film. 08:00 minutes. In an architectural, almost painterly world, interior structures, shapes and colours form together the unusual spaces within which three women are suspended. This film receives Second Place for Best Experimental Short.
IRO IRO NA IRO
Director: Mizuho Otagiri. Tokyo, Japan.
Experimental Narrative short. 29:52 minutes.
During a hot, listless Summer Riko has a strange feeling as if she's losing her sense of self. Certain words and images burst forth in her mind evoking raw pain.
The space separating reality from the spiritual realm becomes increasingly vague. IRO IRO NA IRO receives Second Place for Best Narrative Experimental Short.
AWARD WINNERS
NARRATIVE SHORT
Best Narrative Short.
Anagnorisis
Director: Arturo Dueñas Herrero. Valladolid, Spain.
Second Place, Best Narrative Short
How to Fall in Love in a Brothel
Director: Sunhui Chang, Portland, OR.
Third Place, Best Narrative Short.
Mother's Wishes
Director: Kendall Christianson. New Mexico/Los Angeles.
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
ABSTRACT EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
(Visual or camera-less films)
Best Abstract Experimental Short
Battle
Director: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi. Turkey.
Second Place, Best Abstract Experimental Short
Mass For Shut-Ins
Director: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Lincoln, NE. USA.
Third Place, Best Abstract Experimental Short
Views
Director: David Wilde. Monroe, NH.
NARRATIVE EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
(Experimental shorts with human characters and/or narrative storylines)
Best Narrative Experimental Short
Sometimes A little Sin Is Good For the Soul
Director: Alex Beriault. Canada/Germany.
Second Place, Best Narrative Experimental Short
IRO IRO NA IRO
Director: Mizuho Otagiri. Tokyo, Japan.
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Best Short Documentary
Stonecutter
Director: Jason Affolder. Jerome, AZ.
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Poly-Morphosis
Director: Margaret Hart. Weymouth, MA.
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Best Music Video
Tomorrow
Director: Shaun Parker. NSW, Australia.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST AUDIO EDITING
The Stream X
Director: Hiroya Sakurai, Japan.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Samaritan
Director: Dustin Curtis Murphy. United Kingdom.
BEST MUSIC SCORE
2020
Director: Tom Bessoir. Queens, NY.
Score by Thurston Moore.
BEST OF FEST
Bearing Witness Triptych: Just Breathe the Air.
Directors: Jack Cochran and Pamela Falkenberg. Austin, TX.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality, 1400 Williams St, Denver, United States
Tickets
USD 12.0