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Call for Entries
Submission Deadline for Single Reel #5
September 30, 2007

Film Selection for Series #1
Sept 10 | 6pm | CULTURE PROJECT - 45 Bleecker St, New York

Dear Mr. Polar Bear | Kiki Allgeier | USA | 5:14
This film is a reply from a melancholy Francine to her friend, The Polar Bear.

FLAME | Natasha Johns-Messenger | Australia | 14:00
FLAME is a story about a young woman’s struggle for acceptance. Jesse, through a seemingly chance encounter with Amelia, begins to accept her own identity when this encounter uncovers the secret life of an ancestor.

Mary Lee | Aaron Hraba | USA | 4:00
Mary Lee is my step mother and lives in Iowa. This video was shot during one of our conversations last winter about her father's Alzheimer's disease, he has since past away.

State of Suspension | Dominika Ferenz | Australia | 13:40
'State of Suspension' is a visual meditation on the influence of technology on our lives - our psyche, our imagination, our bodies and our sense of time.

8 Minutes Late | Christopher Henderson | USA | 19:00
A man obsessed with punctuality meets a woman, who matches his need to be on time on the only day he has ever been late for work. She keeps a strict schedule, just like him, but eight minutes later in the day. He must choose between his compulsive routine and his newfound love.

AEY | Brendon Fontanella | USA | 5:50
AEY is a study of organized chaos within non-linear production - Organized computer files may render chaos / spontaneity obsolete?

Cricket Head | Grant Greenberg | USA | 18:50
A teacher, recently released from prison, tries to rekindle a romance with an ex-student.

What Have I Done| Eileen Anastasia Reynolds | USA | 14:00
"What Have I Done?" is a live action/stop-motion animation of surreal complexity. Multiple plot lines intertwine while a personal narrative strings together contemporary child bearing concerns, the struggle to accept the ensuing death of a grandmother with Alzheimer's disease, and the psychology of failed relationships.

Snippets| Sue Rees | India - USA | 13:18
Snippets follows the daily routine of the students at the Kattaikkuttu Youth Theatre School based in Punjarasantankal Village, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu. During the period of the filming the students were rehearsing Pakatai Tukil (Dice and Disrobing), an episode from the Mahabharata.

Çanta (The Briefcase)| Emre Sahin | Turkey | 31:00
Set in the gritty, enchanting streets of Istanbul, Canta is the story of 3 strangers who unknowingly possess the object of each others’ desires, sending them on a collision course of surreal twists, turns and life-altering results. In a city like Istanbul, anything goes.

The Empty Field| Roberto Minervini | Italy - USA | 6:00
...And what if reality dissolved into our very eyes? Not into nothingness, but into the more real than real?

Shadow of a Post-Modern Dilemma| Mareesa Stertz | USA |7:00
This film explores the mind and fears of a young woman, who, propelled into frenzy by a magazine peddler, sets to define all things ‘dangerous’ in a household. Her angst becomes a tangible force that then literally and satirically eats her up whole. 'Shadow of a post-modern dilemma' seriously raises the question, "How effective are we in protecting ourselves from danger if we let our fear and worry consume us?

Not Quite Fiction| Skye Bender-deMoll | USA |10:16
Images and events to construct identity which consists of fragments and relationships. The present abrades the past, retelling things as they might have been.