This video requires REAL PLAYER. The film was shot entired in 16mm b/w films throughout the year. It is a combination of old and recent film footages shot with our own cameras. This video is currently being featured at the Cinema Lounge sponsored by Druid Media and MediaOne Road Runner. A screen view is available here.
The festival lineup features:
o "22 Seconds in Spain", a hypnotic, experimental documentary about the running of the bulls in a Spanish town, by Atlanta filmmaker William Brown.
o "Chasin' Via Communication", a humorous riff on the vagaries of electronic communication by Detroit filmmaker Daniel Gillies.
o "The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even...More", an experimental animation that reinterprets Duchamp's infamous work by the same name, by Detroit multimedia artist Dennis Summers.
o "Voodoo", a dark comedy about a little girl trying to get rid of her mother's date with a voodoo doll. By Atlanta native Gregg Bishop.
o "Bomb Inside My Head", an original black and white music video by Cleveland multimedia artists Greg Petusky and Johnny Wu.
o "Crush", a short story about a man gathering his courage to approach a woman, by Atlanta filmmaker Kevin Patrick.
o "Deception", the story of a woman trapped in one of the most horrific situations imaginable. Then again, maybe it's not that at all. By Atlanta filmmaker Steve Nichols Smith.
o "Synapse", A collection of experimental music videos by Cleveland musician and filmmaker Kasumi Minkin.
Cinema
Lounge is produced by Druid Media, Inc., a streaming media content developer
based in Philadelphia, Pa. Druid Media produces a network of streaming video
and film sites for the Internet. The group's flagship site is The Bit Screen
(www.thebitscreen.com), an Internet movie theater dubbed "The Newest Wave
in Filmmaking" by The New York Times. Druid Media also produces streaming
content for Broadcast.com, Road Runner and Fastv.com. CINEMA LOUNGE is a trademark
of IFP/North and licensed with permission to Druid Media. To learn more about
IFP/North's CINEMA LOUNGE exhibition program, contact IFP/North at 612/338-0871.
MediaOne, the nation's leading broadband services company, provides entertainment,
information and communications services to about five million customers. MediaOne's
parent company, MediaOne Group (NYSE: UMG), is one of the world's largest broadband
communications companies, bringing the power of broadband and the Internet to
customers in the United States, Europe and Asia. The company also has interests
in some of the fastest-growing wireless communications businesses outside the
U.S. For 1998, the businesses that comprise MediaOne Group produced $7.1 billion
in proportionate revenue. On May 6, 1999, the company entered into an agreement
to merge with AT&T.
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