2008 New York Underground Film Festival

These are the films shown at the 15th New York Underground Film Festival, held from April 2–8, 2008.

Film name Director Type Length Notes
1956 Jenny Stark Documentary Video 7:30
4 Films in 5 Minutes Skizz Cyzyk Experimental 16mm 6:00
4 Ways he tried to tell you Jennet Thomas Experimental Video 6:00
Adventure Poseidon, The Anne Mcguire Feature 35mm On Video 117:00 New York Premiere
America's Biggest Dick Bryan Boyce Short Video 3:00
Amy Goodrow: Tape 5925 Eileen Maxson Experimental Video 6:00
Andre the Giant Has A Posse Helen Stickler Documentary Video 20:00
Armored Cars: Protect Yourself from Ballistic Attacks Angie Waller Experimental Video 8:26
Beirut Outtakes Peggy Ahwesh Experimental 16mm On Video 7:00
Broad Day Kevin Jerome Everson Short 16mm 1:00
CALIFORNIA/blue Abbey Williams Experimental Video 7:27
Call and Response Aaron Valdez Experimental Video 3:24
Cats and Pants Jennifer Matotek Short Video 1:00
Chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet Synced and Played Simultaneously Michael Bell-Smith Experimental Video 5:00
Chronicles Kirsten Stoltmann Experimental Video 12:45
Crack Jon Moritsugu Experimental 16mm 1:00
Decision 80 Jim Finn Experimental Video 10:00
Degradation #1: X-ray: Part 2, Government Radiation James June Schneider Experimental 16mm 3:30
Destiny Manifesto Martha Colburn Animation 16mm On Video 8:00
Deviant James Fotopoulos Experimental Video 2:52
Dirty Pictures John Smith Experimental Video 14:00
Discoveries on the Forrest Floor 1-3 Charlotte Pryce Experimental 16mm 4:00
Don't Be a Stranger James Fotopoulos Experimental Video 1:00
Don't Forget About Me James Fotopoulos Experimental Video
Drowning James Fotopoulos Experimental 16mm 3:00
East of the TarPits Gary LeGault Feature Video 74:00 International Premiere
Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on My Cell Phone Darrin Martin Experimental Video 7:40
False Future Matthew Buckingham Experimental 16mm 10:00
Faustus's Children David Jones, Tim Jackson, Michele O'Marah Feature Video 43:00
Figures in the Landscape Thomas Comerford Experimental 16mm 11:00
Foggy Mountains Breakdown More Than Non-Foggy Mountains Jessie Stead Feature Video 59:00
Hambone Steve Hall, Cathee Wilkins Experimental Video 3:00
HANES Mark Ther Experimental Video 4:50
Harmony Jim Trainor Animation 16mm 12:00
Heavy Metal in Baghdad Eddy Moretti, Suroosh Alvi Documentary Video 84:00 New York Premiere
Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love Steve Reinke Experimental Video 14:00
Hommes a Femmes Gerard Byrne Experimental 16mm On Video 40:00
Hoopeston Thomas Bender Documentary Video 78:00 International Premiere
House Ben Rivers Experimental 16mm 5:00
How to Behave or: A Story of Kindness Tran Van Thuy Experimental 16mm On Video 43:00
Huge Flag Jessie Stead Experimental Video 12:00
Hymn of Reckoning Kent Lambert Experimental Video 7:00
I Am The Fred Astaire of Karate Tommy Button Experimental Video 3:15
I Was a Teenage Serial Killer Sarah Jacobson Short 16mm 27:00
I-Be Area Ryan Trecartin Feature Video 108:00
i.Mirror Cao Fei Documentary Video 28:00
Inside, Outside, Upside Down Short Video International Premiere
Internet Alphabet Joe Nanashe Experimental Video 6:32
Interplay Robert Todd Experimental 16mm 7:00
It Only Takes a Second Found Footage Festival Short 16mm On Video 4:00
JME in MySpace: Tropical Feelings Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn Documentary Video 3:51
Junky Tony Nittoli Experimental 16mm On Video 5:00
Kenedi is Getting Married Želimir Žilnik Feature Video 80:00 US Premiere
Key to the City Kevin Jerome Everson Short 16mm 1:45
King of Porn Jeff Krulik Documentary Video 7:00
Kittypie Jennifer Macmillan Experimental Super-8 On Video 4:00
Light is Waiting Michael Robinson Experimental Video 7:00
Little Flags Jem Cohen Experimental 16mm On Video 7:00
Looks Like It's Going to Rain Ken Nordine Experimental Audio 3:29
Lovely Andrea Hito Steyerl Experimental Video 30:00
Market sentiments Barbara Musil Experimental Video 4:00
Michael Dancing On New Year's Eve, 1985 Michael Lucid Documentary Video 1:36
Mild People in Aggressive T-shirts Lyn Elliot Short 16mm On Video 3:00
Mit Mir Kerstin Cmelka Experimental 16mm 3:00
Nasty As U Wanna Be Experimental Video International Premiere
Neighbors Robert Todd Experimental Video 4:30
New York Marathon Koh Yamamoto Experimental 16mm 1:00
Night Tide (for Sailors, Mermaids, Mystics) Drew Heitzler Experimental Video 17:09
Nook and Cranny Experimental 16mm 3:00
Number One Leighton Pierce Experimental Video 10:05
Observando el Cielo Jeanne Liotta Experimental 16mm 19:00
Office Suite Robert Todd Experimental 16mm 15:30
Oh Daniel CC & BN Short Video 3:00
Oh Great, Now Look What Happened Gerbrand Burger, Tijmen Hauer Experimental 35mm 4:04
On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can The Avant-Garde Artist be Wholed? Owen Land Experimental 16mm 17:00
Orchard Gallery Presents Experimental 16mm 76:00
P.R. Bryan Leister Animation Video 1:10
Paradise (excerpts from a work-in-progress) Michael Almereyda Experimental Video 13:00
Photography is Easy Leslie Thornton Experimental Video 4:28
Playing Dead Kevin Jerome Everson Short 16mm 1:30
Priciest Homes Jesper Nordahl Experimental Video 3:00
Prison Images Harun Farocki Experimental Video 60:00 US Premiere
private_eyez.mid Frankie Martin, Cory Arcangel Experimental Video 3:00
Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller Manual De Landa Experimental 16mm On Video 30:00
Rejected or Unused Clips Seth Price Experimental Video 10:00
Return of the Black Tower Experimental Video 15:00
Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema presents REVOLUTION 9 Experimental 16mm
Rock My Religion Experimental Video 55:00
Rocket Luther Price Experimental 16mm 7:00
Ruhe im Stalle furtzt die Kuh (Be Quiet, there is a Cow farting in the Stable) Mark Ther Short Video 7:47
Serendipity 1967 Aaron Valdez Experimental Super-8 On Video 6:00
Seven Days Til Sunday Reynold Reynolds, Patrick Jolley Experimental Super-8 On Video 10:00
Slave #13 Koh Yamamoto Experimental 16mm 3:00
Smells Like Teen Spirit Jem Cohen Short Super-8 On Video 7:37
Social Visions Redmond Entwistle Documentary 16mm 20:00
Songs of Azores Adrienne Jorge Documentary Super-8 On Video 9:00
Stranger Comes to Town Jacqueline Goss Animation Video 28:00
Super High Me Documentary Video 89:00 New York Premiere
The Black Tower John Smith Experimental Video 24:00
The Disappearance John Menick Experimental Video 8:00
The End of the Light Age James June Schneider Feature 16mm New York Premiere
The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography William E. Jones Experimental Video 20:00
The Film - An Epic Adventure, or The Other Kwai Jesper Nordahl Documentary Video 11:00
The Golden Age of Fish Kevin Jerome Everson Feature Video 60:00 New York Premiere
The Juche Idea Jim Finn Feature Video 62:00 New York Premiere
The Lincoln Library of Essential Information Volume 20 Kelly Oliver, Keary Rosen Experimental Video 2:28
The Magician's House Deborah Stratman Experimental 16mm 5:45
The Manipulators Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Claire E. Rojas Animation 16mm On Video 2:00
The Only Possible City, part 1 Experimental 16mm 73:00
The Only Possible City, part 2 Experimental Video 60:00
The Only Possible City, part 3 Experimental Video 93:00
The Operation Jacob Pander, Marne Lucas Experimental 16mm On Video 10:00
The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry Hrag Yedalian Documentary Video 59:00 New York Premiere
The Third Body Peggy Ahwesh Experimental Video 9:00
The Vyrotonin Decision Matt Mccormick Experimental 16mm 7:00
Throwing Paint Tins off the Roof Vibeke Bryld Documentary 16mm 20:15
Tiger Me Bollix Andrew Lampert, Moira Tierney Experimental Super-8 On Video 3:30
Toute la Memoire du Monde Experimental 16mm 21:00
Tube Time! Short Video
Two Black Towers Short Video
Two Black Towers Animation 16mm International Premiere
Unfolding Continuum Nate Boyce Experimental Video 9:00
Untied Deborah Stratman Experimental 16mm 3:00
Untitled #1 (from the series Earth People 2507) Nao Bustamante Experimental Video 5:00
Untitled (Pink Dot) Takeshi Murata Experimental Video 5:00
Victory Over the Sun Michael Robinson Experimental 16mm 13:00
We are Wizards Josh Koury Documentary Video 79:00 New York Premiere
We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass Julia Meltzer, David Thorne Documentary Video 47:00
What I'm Looking For Shelly Silver Experimental Video 15:00
What's On? Martha Colburn Animation 16mm 2:00
When The Light's Red Keith Wilson Documentary Video 10:45
Whispering Pines #5 Shana Moulton Experimental Video 6:32
Window of Time James Fotopoulos Experimental Video 22:32
Window of Time #2 James Fotopoulos Experimental Video 15:28
X: The Baby Cinema Robert Banks Documentary 16mm 16:00
Ya Private Sky Stom Sogo Experimental Video 3:00
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