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Wholphin Screening in Austin, TX
Join us as the Fusebox Festival presents Wholphin at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre on Friday, April 24th. The screening will include selections from the latest issue of Wholphin, No 8, including Lauren Greenfield’s deeply disturbing, hilarious, and timely documentary, kids + money, the 2009 Sundance Short Award winning Short Term 12, Carlos D from Interpol’s gorgeously-shot, surrealist dreamscape, My Friend’s Told Me About You, a series of bedroom-trashing menu films starring James Franco, Creed Bratton and Maria Bamford, and much more.
Details and tickets here.
Friday, April 24th
Salvage Vanguard Theater
2803 Manor Rd.
7PM
Wholphin Screening in Taipei
Join Wholphin editor, Brent Hoff, for a special screening of Wholphin films at the Urban Nomad Film Festival this Thursday, April 23 at 8PM at the Cosmopolitan Grill on Changchun Road in Taipei. Films in this program range from life weariness in Sweden to democracy in China to solar flares in the atmosphere.
More information and tickets available here.
San Francisco International Film Festival
Wholphin is proud to participate as a community partner for the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, which kicks off on April 23rd for two weeks of cinematic excellence. The Festival will screen more than 150 films from around the world, honor film icons including Robert Redford and Francis Ford Coppola, and celebrate Bay Area film culture by opening the fest with Peter Bratt’s La Mission.
Be sure to check out the following shorts programs, which include new work from Wholphin alums Jonas Odell (Never Like the First Time!) and Hanna Heilborn & David Aronowitsch (Hidden). Also not to be missed, Kevin Everson’s Ninety-Three and Sam Green’s Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall.
For tickets and more information, visit www.sffs.org
The challenges of being placed in situations outside one’s comfort zone, whether physically or in one’s mind, is reflected in these presentations of life viewed from an outsider’s perspective.
Seven experimental films make use of collage animation, puppets and 3D imagery to remind us of the fragility of life and the power of the moving-image medium.
The dulcet sounds of a ring tone, the poignant last recording of Harvey Milk and the musings of an elderly artist who gleefully admits, “I live for beautiful women.” These films depict real people and fictional characters whose voices impact with humor, insight, experience and tragedy.
This inventive collection of experimental films and videos presents visual and aural sparring sessions that may or may not prepare you for various states of demise.
Availing itself of various techniques, including hand-drawing, stop-motion and CGI, this animated shorts program goes to show that sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures.
Photo from Photograph of Jesus