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L.E.S.
THE
15TH ANNUAL LOWER EAST SIDE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS
FILM AND
VIDEO FESTIVAL
SCHEDULE OF FILMS
SATURDAY, MAY 29th
CABARET THEATER
Curated by Francesse Maingrette
12:00PM - FILMMAKERS LUNCHEON
1:00 PIANO TUNER, 11min
Director : SUGARCANE.
A short romantic comedy in which a lovely lady finds herself at home alone with an out of tune piano. Featuring : Kerreu Soares, Mort Todd
1:12 AY PAPI AY PAPI, 3 min
Director : HANSE BALBUENA.
A music video featuring Sugarcane taking a stroll through Harlem Heights and encounters the beautiful songbird Krystal Cruz.
1:15 BANANA PUDDIN JAZZ- A Night to Remember, 90 min
Director : ROME NEAL.
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A magical evening of Jazz with great vocalist, musicians, and poets jamming at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe while eating Rome Neal's delicious Banana Puddin.
2:45 STEER " OH WELL", 4:47 min
Director : CHRIS ABBADESSA
A music video from the musical group STEER, which depicts a silver spaceman's adventures through the Streets of Chinatown where he encounters zombies, hula-hoop girls, robots, and psychedelic super heroes, only to meet up with them all later in an uncanny twist of fate.
2:55 THE AFTERDEATH, 7 min
Director : PETER DIZZOZA.
The Afterdeath follows the path of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta after Francesca's husband murders them. The adulterous couple falls from paradise, parachuting through the clouds past purgatory to land on the Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center, a portal to inner earth through which they enter the inferno! Featuring: Kat Yew, Mike Hill
3:05 ALBERT AND ALICE, 80 min
Directed : ANDRU CANN.
Albert and Alice live on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Alive paints an angel who becomes a real entity and takes Albert on a magical mystery tour of the Lower East Side.
4:25 MOPEDS FROM HEAVEN, 13 min
Director : CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN.
It's Toby's 16th birthday and he wants a moped, but when he thinks a love letter bought for a penny is written by his brother's gum chew- ing, puffy gold jacket wearing girlfriend may have written it, his quest is sidetracked.
4:40 THROUGH THEIR EYES, 60 MIN( Q&A)
Director : BUCK HELLER. A documentary style program with a dramatic screenplay to emphasis what was learned on a visit to Washington DC, on Oct. 22-24. We filmed an interview with the Executive Director of "My Sister's Place" and filmed talks with the Education & Outreach Coordinator and the Training & Technical Assistance Attorney of "Break The Cycle."
5:55 METRONOME, 22 min
Director : ROSEANNE MA.
An old man disappears destroying the stability of five strangers whose lives had synchronized with his everyday existence.
6:20 CREATING KARMA, 90 min( Q&A)
Director: JILL WISOFF.
Uptight Manhattanite and corporate climber, Karma, becomes a poet after losing her cushy fashion magazine job for turning thirty, moving in with her eccentric new-age therapist sister and meeting Mr. Wrong, the owner of the local poet's cafe. Featuring: Karen Lynn Gorney, Carol Lee Sirugo, Jill Wisoff, Joe Grifasi.
8:05 SURF ON, 7:04 min
Director : MISHA LAZARE & KYLE WOOD.
A dark comedy about a nine year old
skidder star.
8:13 INTERVIEW WITH A POET, 7 min
Director : LAURA COLLINS.
A candid talk with poet Joan Durant.
8:20 THE END OF EVOLUTION, 7 min
Director : ADAM BESHEER.
After falling to take his own life, a man awakens in a hospital to find himself the subject of a cryptic experiment.
8:30 LIFE AND DEATH: The story of Jean Robert, 7 min
Director : FRANCESSE MAINGRETTE.
A celebration of Jean Robert's life.
8:40 BUCKET OF BLOOD, 70 min
Director : ROGER CORMAN.
Inside every artist lurks a madman...A busboy overly impressed with the cool cats who hang out at the Yellow Door coffee house, and he won ders how to become hip.
9:55 THE 13th HOUR, 5:06 min
Director : N.L SANTIAGO.
Disturbed by his past, a man struggles to realize if the haunting visions encompassing his life are paranoid figment of his imagination or the embodiment of something far worse coming to collect a debt.
10:01 KINK INC, 30 min
Director: CASEY CLARK.
Struggling to make ends meets, a young couple answers a help wanted ad and unwittingly sets forth on a career path in home domination.
10:32 MY HEART IS FOR YOU, 1:38 min
DIRECTOR : MISHA LAZARE.
A short silent film about my ex-boyfriends getting together...finally.
10:35 ANATOMY OF THE LONELY, 105 min
Director : DAVID WINKFIELD.
Several vignettes weave together the lives of lonely New Yorkers who deal with the disappointment of life in a changing city. |
