Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival 2008

A scenic work of art about nature, human nature, and the unknown, 00:05’01 is set in an apocalyptic future where life is scarce but plant life is plentiful. The story chronicles one Future Human (Melissa Frank) who begins to question her routine way of life, a life controlled by her watch.

Secret Agent 009, Pewee Bon, pits his cool cunning and clever gadgets against the forces of evil villain Dr. Mort to recover the Incredibly Easy To Steal Diamond. Humor and special effects (live action, animation, CGI) create microcinema of epic proportions.

Glenn House has moved back to his boyhood home in Gordo, Alabama after years of working as an artist elsewhere. Now he's buying up real estate in downtown Gordo and creating studios and workspaces for print makers, photographers, sculptors and others. He used to collect art. Now he collects artists.

Adventures of Power is an epic comedy about a mine-worker named Power whose love of drums and lack of musical skill has turned him into the ridiculed "air drummer" of his small town. But when Power's union-leader father calls a strike at the mine, Power discovers an underground subculture of air-drummers who just might hold the key to changing the world. Power's journey across America brings him face-to-face with his town's greatest enemy, and allows him to discover the beat within his own heart. Starring Ari Gold, Adrian Grenier, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean.

A retired couple's quiet picnic in the park is violated by a silent intruder whose story exposes the troubling mysteries of existence.

AM3R1C4, AM3R1C4, AM3R1C4, AMERICAL IRL (in real life) is a transgressive short film that presents three digital American flag dissolutions amongst murky lascivious videos found on the Internet. In the latter part of the film the dissolution is then executed physically via performance. The film abstractly examines how physical interaction between person and person and or person and object in our digital age is now a much dislodged scenario. The interaction between person and the vaporous digital image and audio is now a ubiquitous paragon of interaction. The film is specifically referential to the Internet, which is utilized as a sublimated tool to host provocative content to suite specific socially unacceptable desires; therefore myriads of taboos have been displaced within the digital global village. The act of viewing provocative media that is usually censored from the public can be scrutinized as an inadvertent way of transgressing and dissolving established societal ethics. What is missing is the tactility of interaction and the physicality of the content presented in hard edged visual media. The video can be seen as a play between what viewers perpetually do intangibly (via cybernetics) and then performed “in real life”. Conclusively, the video questions the legitimacy of transgression through the use of technology and how the same scenarios are deemed as absurd when performed in a physical space.

At fourteen years old, best friends Lips and Robb Reiner made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil, hailed as the “demi-gods of Canadian metal,” influenced a musical generation including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax. Though Anvil never made it, they never stopped playing or believing. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now well into their fifties, set off to record their thirteenth album, “This is Thirteen,” in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dream.

Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens when their story idea -- a horror flick about a group of friends tormented by a villain with a bag over his head -- starts to come true?

CLOSING NIGHT FILM:‘Bama Girl follows a young black woman’s quest to become the Homecoming Queen at the University of Alabama, one of the great Deep South institutions. Homecoming has a rich history there, tied into centuries of privilege, tradition, and racial exclusivity. We follow Jessica Thomas’ campaign for Queen, running against not only 15 other co-eds, but a strictly segregated Greek system, internal black politics, and a secret all-white association called 'The Machine' that has been controlling politics at the University for most of the past century. This is a film about the light and the dark sides of heritage-- and an unexpected microcosm of electoral politics that reflects much of what is happening across our country today.