2002, 35th humboldt int’l film festival
Making it Happen
Welcome one and all to the 35th Humboldt International Short Film Festival. Thirty five years is a long time, and it takes a lot of work to keep a festival going strong for such a long time. This year has been no exception. Three Co-directors, one epic -Alm festival, and an endless amount of work. A small price to pay for what we are bringing to you this year in 2002. An amazing year for independent film.
Through a vigorous pre-screening process and impeccable judging we have hand-picked a variety of excellent short films. We invite you to sit back relax and enjoy the show. We are sure that when the lights go down, and the projector begins to hum, you will dive so deeply into a world of cinema brilliance that you may never find your way out. You will know that there is no stopping us, you can only hope to contain us. We have made this festival for you and thank you for your support. Enjoy the show.
Faculty Advisor
Ann Alter
Film festival co-directors
TALESE SHERTZER
DAVE WILLIAMSON
JORDAN PACKER
FILM FESTIVAL JUDGES
SHELLIE FLEMMING
Shellie Fleming has offered her insight and expertise to the independent film world for the last twenty years. Focusing on short format personal experimental films, she has addressed and explored a wide range of topics: from AIDS to the destructive aspects of human behavior. With her devotion to the single author approach to filmmaking, students and audiences are sure to gain some fascinating insight and information from this excellent experimental filmmaker.
Ms. Fleming, an Associate Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has been the recipient of a variety of awards and grants throughout her career: in 2000 her film Life/Expectancy, a meditation on a woman’s mid-life search for meaning, was awarded Director’s Choice Award and toured nationally with the Black Maria Film and Video Festival; in 2001 Ms. Fleming was awarded Teacher of the Year at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Ornithology, a visual poem with an implicit criticism of the murderous charge within academic life, won the Peter Wilde Award for most Technically Innovative in 1996 at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
FRANÇOIS MIRON
Working since 1982, François Miron has mastered the film image manipulation technique known as optical printing (the re-photographing of film to achieve various special effects). In addition to his highly awarded and highly acclaimed body of short experimental films, Mr. Miron has: produced music videos; created feature title sequence designs; experimented with still photography; worked on short narrative films; and has taught optical printing and various technical aspects of filmmaking since 1993 a the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal.Mr. Miron’s films have gained recognition and acclaim throughout his career: in 2001 Resolving Power, a surrealist cinematic oddity exploring the subconscious, the metaphorical, the absurd and the insane, was awarded Best Cinematography at the MicroCineFest in Baltimore; The Evil Surprise, a psychedelic found footage optical printing collage manifesto about social conditioning, won Best Experimental at the 1994 Ann Arbor Film Festival; What Ignites Me, Extinguishes Me, an industrial self-portrait about mindscape and architecture, won Best Experimental at the Illinois Film and Video Artist Film Festival in 1990; and his student film, 4x Horizontal, 4x Vertical, won Best Experimental at the Montreal World Film Festival.
TAMI GOLD
Tami Gold is a documentary video and filmmaker who has produced and directed more than 20 films on: AIDS, gender, feminist and labor issues, drug addiction and Vietnam veterans. Ms. Gold has been hailed as a passionate filmmaker seeking to broaden and deepen discussion and awareness about critical issues affecting diverse communities throughout the world. Audiences and students won’t want to miss the work of this woman who is “committed to the creation and dissemination of fiction and nonfiction films and videos about the complex lives of working people.”
Throughout her career Ms. Gold’s films have been recognized and awarded for their excellence: her HBO special Out At Work: America Undercover won the 2000 GLAAD Media Award for Best Documentary; Another Brother, a documentary about an African American Vietnam Veteran won a Gold Hugo Award from the Chicago International Film Festival in 1998; her groundbreaking documentary about working-class gay men and lesbians on the job, Out At Work: Lesbian and Gay Men on the Job, premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast in Poland, Germany, France and Italy.