Freude’s Comments on Independent Films.

Screentest – “A witty, original collage film looking at a little seen world.” ($100)American Shoeshine – “A well done document of a dignified and dying art: shoeshining. Joyful and poignant.” ($50)

Woman to Woman – “A loosely structured historical survey of women from WWI to the present. Inspiring.” ($50)Gravel Springs Fife and Drum – “A short entertaining visit with a fife maker and player in the South.” ($25)

Inner City – “Stop grames time lapse photography expertly used to convey a deep emotional experience.” ($25)

Anthony Reveaux’s Comments on Student Films

Alderpoint – “Relatively compact and concise cutting frames a re-documentation of a painful event…a sort of All the Sherriff’s Hombres … with courage and craft.” ($100)

Going South – “Using the continuity and pacing of a 1950’s feature film, the story’s faltering structure successfully delivers the payload of the punch ending, launched by the pre-pubescent pearlescene of the young star’s performance.” ($50)

Luma Nocturna – “There are few films which can successfully capture a visual sense of touching the perceptual fringes of the cosmic forces of creation.  Pies does this with restrained subtlety and luminous depth of wonder.” ($25)

L.A. Backwater – “While this documentary doesn’t give a point-of-view of total objectivity, it does deliver a very satisfying sense of humor texture and the emotional space of the people within its center, and a bitter-sweet flavor of Utopia lost.” ($25)

Saturn Cycle– “The three parts of this optical exercise are too long, but they demonstrate a genuine strength of intelligent structural dialectics which explore the realms of perception and cinematic vision.” ($25)

No Breaks  – “It is often difficult to separate medium and event in a film like this where Ripley and Guiness loom larger than Ford and Goddard, but the camera manages to nimbly and succinctly capture the concept and avoid becoming another ingredient in the World’s LOngest Sandwich.” ($25)