Such a Nice Boy I Gave Birth To
Marcin Koszalka
US Premiere, Poland, 25 mins
Koszalka's mother, so put upon by the notion of having a son, stomps around the house maliciously cursing the very ground that he inhabits, but, yet, in between her incessant howling we find that there is some kind of horribly twisted concern in her diatribes, something approaching motherly love. - Alex Smith |
Come What May
Marcin Koszalka
US Premiere, Poland, 25 mins
Five years later, our hero returns to the short-hairs of family life, where exposed nerves remain the only nerves. From the luxury and the anxiety of his new wife and child, to the same doo-doo brown couches of his parent's apartment, Kaszalka's narrative is again bittersweet. His mother, once verbally brutal but primarily concerned, takes a backseat to his father, whose elegant soliloquy at the tail end of this piece makes this a high mark in the whole of eastern Europe. - Alex Smith
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Exist
Jessica Doyle
World Premiere, 4 mins
Doyle documents her experience as a graduate student pursuing an MFA while simultaneously giving birth to and beginning a new life with her daughter. The film traces the growth of artistic vision as it blends with and develops within an ever deepening family bond. - Jill Hannon
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Sarah Nye
Sarah Hanssen
6 mins
The color and ambient sound in this film creates an environment where you feel like you are living a haunted dream, bewitched by the intimacy created here in. Its stirring and dark, with a strange glowing warmth, that seems to emanate from the screen. - Roscoe Zipco |
