Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Three-Year Anniversary Screening
All Shorts Program
ANGEL'S FIRE
Directed by Marcelo Bukin
13 min - 2006 - Peru/Spain - Spanish w/ English Subtitles - Color
Bukin's award-winning film follows an 8-year-old child laborer as he tries to develop a sense of community and friendship amidst horrifying conditions.
GOD PROVIDES
Directed by Brian Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky
9 min - 2007 - USA - English - Color
A look at the varied and unexpected responses to natural disaster.
BY MODERN MEASURE
Directed by Matthew Lessner
6 min - 2006 - USA - French/English Subtitles - B&W
An amateur French sociologist observes the lives of two young Americans.
ANECDOTE
Directed by Nathan Silver
30 min - 2008 - USA - English - B&W
After failing the Bar exam, Kate realizes that law is not for her. With no sense of a life-plan, Kate takes a job house cleaning and at first finds comfort in the repetition and routine of the work, but repetition and routine only go so far... A tragic farce in black-and-white.
NEW BUSINESS
Directed by Julia Kots
13 min - 2008 - USA - Russian w/ English Subtitles - Color
One summer evening in post-Soviet Russia, a teenage boy tries his hand at entrepreneurialism by attempting to prostitute two teenage girls.
EVER VIGILANT, EVER TRUE
Directed by Joshuah Bearman
6 min - 2005 - USA - English - Color
In "Ever Vigilant, Ever True" Patton Oswalt offers viewers a glimpse into the life of the world's greatest super-villain costume designer.
CHONTO
Directed by Carson Mell
13 min - 2008 - USA - English - Color
In 1977 Bobby Bird adopted a chimpanzee in an attempt to fill the hole in his soul. It did not work out for him.
SUNLIT SHADOWS
Directed by Ben Piety
14 min - 2008 - USA - English - Color
A visual mix tape highlighting the simultaneous holding on to–and letting go of–lost love. Told through the songs and moments of a simple lazy morning.