Merry Medley: Shorts

Monday, October 18, 5:30pm

This amusing cinematic mélange demonstrates that life is a series of beginnings and endings, both random and calculated… but it’s all good. In CARISMA, a well-known cable news channel indirectly brings about a nasty breakup. A newly unemployed woman receives increasingly bad news from loved ones while spending a lot of time ON THE COUCH. The synchronized watersprites of SINK OR SWIM didn’t make it to Athens this year, and BOOTY DANCE isn’t an Olympic sport, but this delightful CGI analysis of gay men’s and lesbians’ contrasting club techniques deserves a gold medal. West Hollywood speaks up in TEXAS BULLSH!T, and it’s STANDING ROOM ONLY for this delightfully droll showbiz mockumentary. Finally, the “happy” ending of campy MEMOIRS OF AN EVIL STEPMOTHER is, as in life, subjective.

ON THE COUCH; Tai Fauci, director; 2003; USA; 18 minutes; 35mm
CARISMA; David Planell, director; 2003; Spain; 10 minutes; 35mm (in Spanish with English subtitles)
BOOTY DANCE; Paula Durrette, director; 2004; USA; 4 minutes, video
TEXAS BULLSH!T; Renee Sotile and Mary Jo Godges, directors; 2004; USA; 3 minutes; video
SINK OR SWIM; Amalie Atkins, director; 2003; Canada; 6 minutes; video
STANDING ROOM ONLY; Tony Brownrigg, director; 2004; USA; 5 minutes; video
MEMOIRS OF AN EVIL STEPMOTHER; Cherien Dabis, director; 2004; USA; 18 minutes; video
Total Running Time: 68 minutes

Broadway Performance Hall
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