OFFICIAL SELECTION Series
Downtown Independent is thrilled to bring you this exciting new home grown film series (read press release here) presenting the most unique, bold and original voices in independent film. Come discover the freshest films you can’t find anywhere else and party with the filmmakers. Each feature will be preceded by an equally unique film that celebrates the short film format.
First Thursdays of the month. Doors open at 7:00pm. Film starts at 8:00pm. Party until 1am.
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DECEMBER 14TH
Special World Premiere of Joe Swanberg's new film
CAITLIN PLAYS HERSELF
Come see a Joe Swanberg film and be in his next one!
We are thrilled to be partnering up with the indie stalwart himself for this special screening. Following the film, stay for the party! DJ will be spinning tunes, and at the very start Swanberg will shoot some footage of the party to use in his next film.
Film will be preceded by the doc webseries, AMERICAN NOBODIES
A 2 minute (each) documentary series of average Americans doing extraordinary things
Doors open at 7pm
Film starts at 8pm
Q&A with Joe Swanberg
Party to follow!
DJ Jean-Pierre: 9:30-11:30pm
Stay for the party and be in Joe's next movie!
In typical productive mode, Joe will shoot some 10 minutes of footage of the party to include in his next movie!
Log: When Caitlin, an uncompromising artist who creates both personal and political work, performs nude in her show about the BP oil spill, it sends her relationship with her on and off again boyfriend into a tailspin. As she directs her energy toward sustainable living and a series of dates with other guys, she realizes the difficulty of trying to save the world when you can't even make sense of your own life.
Thursday, September 1
MARS preceded by FIELD NOTES FROM DIMENSION X: OASIS
Tickets $12 click here to purchase
MARS written and directed by Geoff Marslett (82 min)
From Austin-based director Geoff Marslett and starring Mark Duplass, Zoe Simpson, Paul Gordon, Cynthia Watros, Liza Weil, Howe Gelb, Mike Dolan and Kinky Friedman comes this SXSW favorite. MARS follows three astronauts on the first manned mission to our galactic neighbor. On the way they experience life-threatening accidents, self-doubt, obnoxious reporters, and the boredom of extended space travel. This romantic comedy is told in the playful style of a graphic novel - using a unique animation process that director Geoff Marslett developed specifically for the film and features a desert soundtrack with music by Giant Sand. Underneath the silliness, MARS is also an exploration of exploration. Why do we want to know what is out there? How do we react to what we find? Is it really that important? And where does love fit into the whole thing?
- SXSW 2010 -
FIELD NOTES FROM DIMENSION X: OASIS written and directed by Carson Mell (4 min 30 sec)
Logline: Captain Fred T. Rogard muses in isolation on planet Oasis.
Thursday, October 6
THE SENTIMENTAL ENGINE SLAYER preceded by THE EXTERNAL WORLD
Tickets $12 click here to purchase
THE SENTIMENTAL ENGINE SLAYER written and directed by Omar Rodriguez Lopez (97 min)
Barlam is a timid, twentysomething grocery bagger lurching clumsily toward manhood in the dusty US-Mexico border town of El Paso, Texas. He's been feeling anxious recently… something about the humdrum of everyday life doesn't fit quite right. His addict sister Nati—equal parts charm and damage—clicks in too well with their borderline incestuous dynamic and gets caught up in Barlam's obsession with a Puerto Rican boy who looks just like him. Thing is, this boy might be the missing piece to their broken family history. Soon Barlam is descending into a seedy underworld where reality and fantasy entangle, masculinity and belonging are thrown into crisis, and flippant humor reveals disillusionment, desire, and rage. And there are some pretty imaginative narcotics, too….
Dripping with sexuality and exuberance in tongues that bounce between Spanish and English,The Sentimental Engine Slayer flickers hot and sweaty with the fluorescent colors of a distinctly Southwest American landscape. This extraterrestrial, semi-autobiographical tale told with boomerang fragmentation and psychedelic sound design gives the director/writer/star Omar Rodriguez Lopez away as the sonic force behind the Grammy-winning fusion rockers The Mars Volta. It also makes Rodriguez's directorial debut a piercingly clear pronouncement that a rare and riveting voice has emerged for independent American cinema.
- Roya Rastegar, Tribeca Film Festival 2010 -
The External World written and directed by David OReilly (15min)
Logline: A boy learns to play piano
Thursday, November 3
THE WOODS preceded by ALL IN ALL
Tickets $12 click here to purchase
THE WOODS written and directed by Matthew Lessner (90 min)
We were promised change, but it never came. Our cities crumbled around us. Our streets ran red with Hawaiian Punch. Our country was no longer our own. Under Daniel's guidance and leadership, we agreed to take action into our own hands. We preset our DVRs and ventured out of the city limits united. In the woods, we will be safe. In the woods, we will start anew.
This satirical attack on young, modern, globally conscious citizens tells the story of eight grown-up American children creating utopian society as best they can. With gorgeous Super 16 footage and an eclectic soundtrack featuring Dirty Projectors, Sun Araw, and Lucky Dragons, filmmaker Matthew Lessner playfully subverts counterculture films of the seventies while questioning the shortcomings of his own complacent generation. In a world where new technologies merely distract us from reality, the greatest revolution can only begin by leaving everything behind.
- Sundance Film Festival 2011 -
All in All written and directed by Charlie Reff and Jacki Sextro (13min 20sec)
Logline: A lovestory set on the final night of Christian summer camp
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