Sat 1/31 @ 7PM
The 23rd Annual Standing Rock Cultural Arts Short Film and Video festival at the Kent Stage is likely to provide as many strange, surprising and diverse treats as its predecessors. As usual, the entries come in from all over the world including Germany, Switzerland, Croatia and South Korea, as well as Northeast Ohio.
There will be about 20 films in all, including last year’s people’s choice winner, New Yorker Liam Lopinto, in person, screening his film The Old Young Crow and others. And one special film, created by Cleveland-area filmmaker/photographer Cynthia Penter, is The Four Seasons, featuring four short episodes on screen accompanied by live dance performances from The Birds Who Walk at Night, a collective of women who combine movement and sound in the Butoh tradition through site-specific performances. Genevieve Jencson, Hope Schultz and Laura Swedenborg will be performing with the film.
The films, all under 15 minutes, range from music videos (Cleveland’s Kiss Me Deadly performs in an abandoned observatory), to short narratives — funny to fantastic to heart-warming, to documentaries on subjects such as the community that grew up around one Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow cast and the impact of gun violence on a family to abstract, experimental films. Go here for tickets.
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