video i Season 13
#1308 - Original Airdate: Mon, February 18 at 11pm
Short Docs
Featuring a diverse collection of short documentaries
SÍ SE PUEDE! (DIR. BRIAN LILOIA)
Sí, Se Puede! is a short documentary highlighting the immigration reform issues debated in the United States during the height of media attention in 2006. Focusing on the stories of two undocumented citizens working in the restaurant industry, this film gives them a chance to make clear their desires and talk about the difficult conditions they face. To learn more, visit: small-scale.net.
Filmmaker Bio
Brian Liloia is a young filmmaker most inspired by DIY, low/no budget filmmaking. He has produced a number of short and often times quirky films and documentaries, several of which have received festival attention. Currently, Brian is living in a retrofitted grain bin at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage of northeastern Missouri, where he is pursuing his interests in sustainable, low impact living, and there he produces a video blog about the community and issues of sustainability.
BOOTYFUL WORLD (DIR. AVITAL LEVY)
From Sir Mix-A-Lot to Brazilian butt lift surgeries, Bootyful World explores mainstream culture's growing fixation on the butt. Through interviews with leading experts of contemporary pop culture, journalists, plastic surgeons, and fashion photographers, this documentary does an imaginative job of exploring mainstream culture's growing fixation on the booty. For more about this film and the filmmaker, visit: bootyfulworldthemovie.com.
Filmmaker Bio
Avital Levy directed Bootyful World as a thesis film at the University of Southern California. Prior to USC, she worked on Trembling Before G-d and TV documentaries for the History Channel. She has directed and produced both fiction and non-fiction shorts at USC. Avital is currently developing two feature films and another documentary.
SWIM SUIT (DIR. LUCRETIA KNAPP)
Swim Suit is a powerful and evocative experimental documentary about a young person's conflict between the desire to transition, and passion for swimming on a women's college team. Ambient sound builds with the emotional pitch of the storytelling, and serves as an aural template for an evocative editing style. Sequences of self-reflection are inter-cut with stunning underwater images of Calvin, a young FTM, swimming in a "swimming suit." The film is thoughtfully constructed, allowing the viewer to reflect upon perception, double entendres and visual codes. For more about this film, go to: frameline.org.
Filmmaker Bio
Lucretia Knapp is an independent filmmaker, media artist and photographer. Her work has been shown in such venues as The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Side Street Projects and the Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles; the Athens International Film and Video Festival and most recently in an art event in Luarca, Spain called Simbiosis. Her writing on film has been published in Out In Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular, Culture and Cinema Journal. Her photographic work has been published in Our Grandmothers: 75 Women Photographers and OUTBOUND: Passages from the 90s, published by Contemporary Arts, Houston, Texas. She teaches at Smith College in Northampton, MA and The International Center of Photography in New York.