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Mark your calendars for the 25th Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival! Films that focus on independent, underground, personal and experimental filmmaking. 4 days, over 40 films.
Tickets will be available before the festival, including an All-Festival Pass option.
Sneak peak of special programs:
Kicking it off on Thursday May 16th with:
-"MARRIED TO COMICS" feature documentary screening, Directed by John Kinhart. 2023 Trailer:
"A rare glimpse into the life and art of two giants of autobiographical comics, who are also married. Laying their personal lives to bare in comics, including the intimate details of their troubled marriage, Justin Green and Carol Tyler pioneered and set the bar for one of comics' most important genres. Starring Justin Green, Carol Tyler, Robert Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, Chris Ware, Denis Kitchen, MariNaomi, Glenn Bray, Ron Turner, and Patrick Rosenkranz."
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-"HAPPY CAMPERS" presented by director Amy Nicholson, In-Person.
"This observational documentary follows the last summer many of the residents of Inlet View, a seasonal trailer park, vacationed there before out-of-town redevelopers took over. “Happy Campers is designed as an opportunity to experience what it’s like to be part of a community like Inlet View, and act one begins with a tour of some of the courser and more eclectic aspects of campground life. After a busy day of bean can cannons, cabinet-raiding raccoons, raucous parties, and horseshoe competitions, the day has finally faded into night. Residents gather in intimate groups to soak in another stunning sunset and enjoy endless conversation around cozy campfires" -Amy Nicholson. A Q&A with director Amy Nicholson will take place after the screening. @happycampersfilm
IMDB info: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30057119/
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-"CONTRACTIONS" presented by director Lynne Sachs, 2024 TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/910887898
"In 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States ended a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion in the country. The film takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic. We listen to an obstetrician and a reproductive rights activist. We watch 14 women who witness and perform with their backs to the camera. In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, they speak with the full force of their collective presence." A Q&A with director Lynne Sachs will take place after the screening.
-"EL SIGNO VACÍO" (the empty sign), PA Premiere, film by Kathryn Ramey. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/943914526
75 minutes, 2023, USA/Puerto Rico. "Mixing a hundred years of found footage - tourism, agricultural and propaganda films - with contemporary portraits of artists and activists this film is a journey through the complex layers of the United States’ occupation of Puerto Rico. Using an experimental and ethnographic approach the film reveals how carefully crafted American fictions of “democracy” and “debt” obscure a capitalist/military domination."
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-"CANOA: A Shameful Memory" (1976), special screening at 9:30PM, on Saturday May 18th. https://www.facebook.com/events/2223215938020097
-"TODAY" directed by Su Friedrich, 57 minutes, 2022, Trailer: https://vimeo.com/777443137
“Celebrated for pioneering contributions to queer cinema, Friedrich adopts an innovative approach in Today. Endeavoring to "live in the moment" through her camera, the filmmaker discloses the inspiring and sorrowful facets of the world surrounding her, merging documentary footage with trademark humor and commentary, resulting in a captivating and informal depiction of everyday life.” —Chris Jones, Overly Honest Movie Reviews
-"INSTRUMENT" 25th Anniversary Screening! (1999) by Jem Cohen. with a Special, Post-Screening VIRTUAL Q&A with Ian MacKaye of Fugazi!
RESTORED DCP projection.
Preview:
https://vimeo.com/944283052
The band Fugazi is documented over a period of more than ten years (1987-1998) through performance footage and interviews with the band and their fans. Director Jem Cohen’s relationship with band member Ian MacKaye extends back to the 1970s when the two met in high school in Washington, D.C.. The film takes its title from the Fugazi song of the same name, from their 1993 album, In on the K*ll Taker. Editing of the film was done by both Cohen and the members of the band over the course of five years.
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In addition to these highlighted visiting filmmakers, documentary features, and special programming, the 25th Annual Moviate Underground Film festival will feature over 40 short films from around the world, ranging from narratives, to experimental and avant-garde films, to documentary style films.
More information will be posted here, on Instagram, and at www.moviate.org
FULL LINE UP/DETAILS below:
Saturday May 18th: 11:15AM - Shorts Program #1: Last Things
Tape-stry / Ronnie Taylor
Photosynthesis / Brian Zahm
Another Rapid Event / Daniel Murphy
a shifting pattern / Isaac Sherman
Parallel Botany / Magdalena Bermudez
Last Things / Deborah Stratman
Saturday May 18th: 1:15 PM - Shorts Program #2: Metroflections
Rorschach Phytogram: Garden of Bone and Flesh / Rebecca Reynolds
Floods Recede to Luxury / Kathy Rugh
SKYSCRAPER FILM / Federica Foglia
Superfund / Charles Cadkin
Suya Dokun (Touch the Water) / Yusuf Demirors
164 San Antonio Abad / Yuula Benivolski
Holographic Will / Mike Stoltz
Intervals / Sandy McLennan
Tarot Portrait: Faith / Brittany Gravely, Ken Linehan
Capital / Basma al-Sharif
Saturday May 18th: 3:00 PM - Shorts Program #3: Discourse
So Many Things are Not So / Mark Burhick
A Better Relationship with the Unknown / Mark Street
Growing Up Absurd / Ben Balcom
A Feast in a Mirror / Yasaman Baghban
Contractions / Lynne Sachs
Saturday May 18th: 8:00 PM - EL SIGNO VACÍO (the empty sign)
kāua - we (you & I) / Rachel Makana'aloha O Kauikeolani Nakawatase
Water Notebook / Felipe Rodriguez Cerda
EL SIGNO VACÍO (the empty sign) / Kathryn Ramey
Saturday May 18th: 10:00 PM - Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Felipe Cazals / Mexico / 1976
Sunday May 19th: 11:00 AM - Shorts Program #4: Shattered Stories
Patient / Lori Felker
Queen / Kai Nealis
The Kittens’ Tea Party / MiruFiyu
Jessie the Ghost / Patrick Boehmcke
Marginal Understandings / David Finkelstein
The Warmest Color is Blue / Kevin Ralston
Pizza Road / Tim Dübbert
Ywnhx / Nate Dorr
Sunday May 19th: 1:10 PM - Shorts Program #5: A Dream or a Memory?
Ill Composto / Moviate
Was It a Dream or a Memory / Margaret Rorison
emergence / Margaret Rorison
Inundada / Michelle Trujillo
Otherhood / Deborah Stratman
Zero Woods of the Wild Place / Josh Weisbach
a fence is a fence but the clouds move freely / Curtis Miller
No Way Back to Parly 2 / Emmanuel Plasseraud
Sunday May 19th: 3:20 PM - Shorts Program #6: Today
Glitter For Girls / Federica Foglia
Thời Thơ Ấu (Childhood) / Vi Tuong Bui
I’m Sorry I’m Late / Sharon Mooney
Ashes of Roses / Sasha Waters
Today / Su Friedrich
Sunday May 19th: 5:00PM - LOCAL BLOCK//COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAM
Hot Wheels Room / Derek Wentz
My Childhood Places / Scott Lyter
One Glad Evening When My Shift is Over...I'll Fly Away / Julia Marie Mallory
Dying To Put It Into Words / Gabriel Brown
Wake Up / Jerry Stevens II and Philip Mann
Sunday May 19th: 7:15PM - "Instrument" by Jem Cohen and Fugazi. Post Screening Virtual Q&A with Ian MacKaye of Fugazi!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Midtown Cinema, Aangan Express, 263 Reily St, Harrisburg, PA 17102-2551, United States,Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
