The Mendocino Film Festival on PNN

Unfurling

Mendocino film — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:43:36 GMT

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Unfurling

Director: Martha Gorzycki
UNFURLING is an animated silent film inspired by many years of cross-country travel and witnessing America's changing landscape, in which cars, commercial signs, bar codes, money and windmills reinterpret and illuminate the American flag. (2006, 2 min. 20 sec.)
Showing: May 18, 1pm, St. Anthony's

Run

Mendocino film — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:17:07 GMT

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Run

Director: Nathan Brunskill
A man out for early morning exercise around his local high school track soon finds some unexpected competition and some surprising obstacles. (2006, 4 min.)
Showing: May 17, 6pm, St. Anthony's

Peace Dreams

Mendocino film — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:06:54 GMT

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Peace Dreams

Director: Martha Gorzycki
Filmmaker in person
PEACE DREAMS is an animated film which chronicles the language of symbols experienced in the dreams of its maker over a period of eleven years. (2005, 7 min.)
Showing: May 18, 1pm, Abalone Room

Monsoon

Mendocino film — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:00:14 GMT

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Monsoon

Director: Shyam Balsé
Filmmaker in person
In this finely-crafted short, Govinda, a California doctor, is forced to return to his native India when his estranged father falls ill. Much to the frustration of his atheist son, the father refuses medical treatment, claiming that only God can heal him. As the tension between them grows, Govinda is drawn back into the mystery surrounding the death of his beloved wife. (2006, 21 min.)
Showing: May 19, 12:30pm, Abalone Room

Loom

Mendocino film — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:54:14 GMT

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Loom

Director: Scott Kravitz
This work of stop-motion animation introduces us to a weaver who gathers her thread from a most unusual source. (2005, 5 min.)
Showing: May 19, 4pm, MTC

Dead in the Sierra

Mendocino film — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:31:51 GMT

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Dead In The Sierra:

The Legend of Two Joaquins

Director: Warren Haack
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"The spectre of Joaquin Murietta still rides in the California countryside. Whoever approaches the legend of this bandit will feel the charismatic force of his gaze." - Pablo Neruda The California Gold Rush of 1849 occurred in the aftermath of the US-Mexican War, which annexed nearly half of Mexico to the United States. Amid the greed, suspicion, and fear of that era, many who lost land, family, and their futures fought back. Told from the Mexican point of view, this is a story of two very different men, both named Joaquin, whose resistance fed the legend of outlaw and rebel Joaquin Murietta. Beautifully shot in 16mm black and white over three decades, the film sports a superb sound design by Academy Award-winner Richard Beggs (Apocalypse Now), who also worked on such films as Rain Man, Lost in Translation, and Children of Men. (2007, 30 min., in English and Spanish with English subtitles.)
Showing: May 19, 6pm, Matheson

The Barn

Mendocino film — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:09:01 GMT

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The Barn

Director: Fleur Nelson
Filmmaker in person
When six-year-old Rosie hides a stranger from the police, will her innocence be lost forever? (Australia, 2006, 10 min.)
Showing: May 19, 10am, Abalone Room

Ashes

Mendocino film — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:05:05 GMT

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Ashes

Director: Creda Wilson A young man's perceptions of his childhood begin to transform as he visits his father's oldhaunts, accompanied by all that remains of his father's physical presence. (New Zealand, 2006, 8 min.)
Showing: May 19, 3:30pm, Matheson