Boston Cinema Census

Boston Cinema Census 8

The Eighth Annual Boston Cinema Census was held Friday, March 6, 2009, at 7:30pm., at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA.

BCC8 Program Notes:

Lesson One, 3 Minutes 16 Seconds, Experimental

Dir: Bryan DeLeon, 2008

What mistakes are we running from? This experimental video touches upon the broad theme of regret—whether be it creative, personal, or professional. This compelling video project asks, but does not answer.

Mind the Gap, 16 Minutes, Narrative

Dir: Kristal Williams-Rowley, 2008

A teen at a local high school commits suicide by jumping in front of a subway train, as the consequence of her actions are felt by a classmate whose father was the person driving the train that hit her. Mind the Gap uses traditional voiceover technique to explore the unexpected ramifications of personal action.

Spontaneous Generation, 4 Minutes 37 Seconds, Animation

Dir: Andrew Cahill, 2007

A playful yet serious-in-heart project about all things that grow and change, resolve and dissolve, flow and consume—this film displays these themes as only animation can.

Stanley, 17 Minutes, Narrative

Dir: Patrick McMahill, 2008

Images of drab and wet Brighton and Malden, MA provide the perfect locale for this slow and hard story of a troubled man played pitch perfect by veteran Bill Sage (Simple Men, American Psycho). A character study with a sturdy backbone, Stanley asks a complex set of questions proposed through performance and editing.

The Uphill Descent, 4 Minutes 35 Seconds, Experimental Poem

Dir: David Baeumler, 2008

A visual meditation, both stunningly beautiful and poetic, on the natural cycles which leads the viewer through an underworld landscape and culminates in a violent, colorful rebirth.

Pride's Corner, 8 Minutes 15 Seconds, Documentary

Dir: Kevin McCarthy, 2008

A portrait of place and passing time, Pride's Corner focuses on the sensuous grounds and iconic images of a family run drive-in cinema on a foggy night in Maine. True ethnographic filmmaking with an Americana bend to it.

DIG, 2 Minutes 45 Seconds, Experimental Documentary

Dir: Robert Todd, 2007

After nearly seven years of constant construction on Rob's street, the road in front of his house was ripped up once again early one summer morning. A few days after they'd paved over the damage, Dig-Safe Marks magically appeared, signalling the start of yet another round of terror for the neighborhood, here vividly brought to life in sparing terms.

Werewolf Trouble, 7 Minutes 10 Seconds, Narrative

Dir: Charlie Anderson, 2008

Ryan is a werewolf—you know, the kind of werewolf with roommates. Horrified to wake up only partially transformed one day, he enlists his roommates' aid to restore his full human form in time for a very important poetry reading.