Run Grannny Run

Preacher Jack

SHORT FILM

"Go···No Go"
A story about one man's lost dream
by Leigh Medeiros

FEATURED FILM

“Run Granny Run ”
2007 SXSW Audiance-Award Winner
by Marlo Poras

MUSIC

Preacher Jack

Hour Zero

Writer's Block

An Execution Night in North Carolina

What's Going On Up There?

Jeremy Lyons

SHORT FILMS

Commercial Breaks #1
These Videos are remix mash-ups of televisions ads and news footage from the time period around the beginning of the current war in Iraq. They are critical satirical works of art focusing on political and social issues created by remixing corporate intellectual property and/or appropriated footage without the permission of the copyright holder.
by Jonathan McIntosh

"Hour Zero"
One man's reality begins to spiral out of control as an ominious radio broadcast pushes him to the edge of his sanity.
by 48 Hour Film Project participant
Chris Magdalenski

"Writer's Block"
Sneak Preview! Mayhem and madness erupt in this zany comedy as a man must deal with a writing deadline. Are the characters he writes about just fictional...?
by Michael Day

"An Execution Night in North Carolina"
Execution NightThe warden of North Carolina's Central Prison, Marvin Polk, narrates the preparation and final hours before an execution in Raleigh, NC. The short film includes candid discussion by the warden about the role of doctors in lethal injections as well as his own feelings on overseeing the executions.
by Scott Langley

FEATURED FILM

"What's Going on Up There?"
Examines the sacrifices that must be made
on the road to revitalizing the space industry.
by Maryann Galvin

MUSIC

Jeremy Lyons & the Deltabilly Boys

The Day Dream

The War Tapes

Christian McNeill

SHORT FILM

"The Day Dream"
Grand Prize winner of the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Diagnosed as lacking in "company spirit", a disillusioned office worker is promptly pitched into a world of prescriptions, drug tests and health screenings, until an alternative voice suggests his problems are bigger than his pills can cure shown by Mike Ryan

FEATURED FILM

War Tapes
Straight from the front lines in Iraq, The War Tapes is the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves. It is Operation Iraqi Freedom as filmed by Sergeant Steve Pink, Sergeant Zack Bazzi and Specialist Mike Moriarty and other soldiers
Q&A with Steven Pink Iraq Veteran featured in the film

MUSIC

Christian McNeill

Indecision

World Bank Bloodsuckers

Buddy

Hope Roth

SHORT FILMS

"Indecision"
Indecision is a comedy short about a young woman who has a hard time making up her mind. No matter how determined she is, her journey through life is weighed down by worry over the most mundane of daily tasks. One day she experiences an epiphany that sets her free.
by Mary DeBerry

"World Bank Bloodsuckers"
Members of the Boston Direct Action Project dressed as vampires to pose as PR officials for the World Bank. They hit the streets of DC during the 2005 mobilization against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings. This is a hilarious short documentary of that affinity group's interactive street theater performance.
by Jonathan McIntosh

FEATURED FILM

"Buddy"
Buddy, the documentary, paints a complex portrait
of the often contradictory and always audacious
public figure who became the youngest man and
the first Italian-American to become mayor of Providence,
and a Republican who unseated a Democrat stronghold
of more than thirty years.
shown by Chris Savage

MUSIC

Hope Roth
Despite her friendly and upbeat personality, Hope Roth writes songs that are both deliciously melancholy and deeply personal. The central theme tends to be that of loneliness and heartbreak, with words and melodies that are all at once funny and playful yet dark and complex. More often than not, she is chortling in the face of despair. Her songs aim to capture a moment or a mood, to take something difficult or painful and turn it into something beautiful. More often than not, you will find yourself humming her melodies long after you have turned your stereo off. Her songs might get stuck in your head, but you will be glad to have them there.

The Glow

Dreams That Money Can Buy

Ruth Savage

Ed "Moose" Savage

SHORT FILM

"The Glow"
Created as an homage to experimental cinema, The Glow is a film that transgresses the boundaries of commercial and traditional filmmaking. It leads viewers into a non-narrative realm where nothing is expected nor unexpected. With it's use of non-diegetic sounds and surrealistic editing it achieves a short-lived hallucinatory exploration much in the fashion of Maya Deren.
by Nicole Chudy

FEATURED FILM

"Dreams That Money Can Buy" (80 min.)
Introduction and Q&A with Burt Shulman the son of the original Cinematographer Herman "Hank" Shulman. Legendary Early Surrealist Work featuring Richter, Duchamp, Ernst, Calder, Man Ray, John Cage. Very rarely screened 1946-47 film.

SHORT FILM

"Ruth's Rap" (10 min.)
video by Artie Freedman, shown by Ed "Moose" Savage
Ruth Savage has been performing programs of song, jokes and general "Happiness Inc." in both English and Yiddish, since the 1950's, mainly around Worcester, Mass. This is a short video of a 1991 performance.

MUSIC

Ed "Moose" Savage
and Ed "Moose" Savage and His Litany of Complaints
w/Paul Dionne on Drums
"Ed "Moose" Savage is a one-of-a-kind entertainer, performing without a band, just a drummer, in a kind of a cappella stream-of-consciousness, to a steady live drumbeat. You haven't lived until you've heard Ed's song, "Iceberg Lettuce", a hilarious, rhythmic rant about the vegetable kingdom's most overlooked dinner accoutrement. Never one to write songs about mere romantic love, Ed chooses to pen songs about the price of a "cuppa" tea, and bad freeway driving." - Cool and Strange Music Magazine

The Radical Jesters

Willie Alexander

SHORT FILMS

Selection from
The 48 Hour Film Project

"My Pal Skeets"
by Anne Rearick, presented by editor
Nick Patten

FEATURED FILM

"The Radical Jesters"
A film which explores the work and ideas of a divers group of performers and artists whose activities are not about commercial exchange, but about increasing awareness of a culture where ideas and values are often fashioned by the media and through habits of consumption.
by Tim Jackson

MUSIC

Willie Alexander A rock' n' roll survivor, who's Boston-based career has traced the history of rock and roll for thirty years. Willie will be playing solo, but may have a guest musician or two sitting in. His song "Mass Ave" was called by Steven King one of the best twenty rock songs ever recorded