My short film Anatinus has two more screenings coming up:

First is May 12 in Las Vegas at the inaugural PollyGrind Film Festival. It’ll be screening among various shorts and features in the opening night Post-Apocalyptic Nightmares program:

PollyGrind
Wednesday May 12, 9:15pm
The Sci-Fi Center
2520 State Street, Las Vegas, NV

Then on June 18 it’s in New York City as part of the Rooftop Films New York Non-fiction night. The Rooftop Films screenings actually do take place on rooftops, this one is on the Lower East Side:

Rooftop Films
Friday June 18, 8pm
Open Road Rooftop
350 Grand Street, New York, NY

A silly and very short animation that I made for a class.

I’ve been informed that the International Surrealist Film Festival will be showing some of my work in LA next week!  It’ll be a short abstract self-portrait I recently made, plus a little surprise.   They’ll be screening among what is sure to be a fascinating slate of films that surrealist maestro Paul Yates has deemed sufficiently surreal for this year’s festival…

International Surrealist Film Festival
Sunday March 21st, 8pm
Downtown Independent Theatre, 251 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA

A very short film I directed, ANATINUS, is going to be premiering at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival. It’s part of the Narrative Shorts 2 program, showing at the Alamo Drafthouse Lamar. There will be three screenings: Saturday, March 13 at 1:30pm, Monday, March 15 at 4pm, and Thursday, and March 18 at 2pm.

And here’s the official synopsis:

ANATINUS is a musical cinematographical voyage into the hazy early hours of the day. This film was shot in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with no budget, using a pocket-sized digital camera. No giant rubber ducks were harmed in the making of this picture. Music by LIGO.

My friend Don Ramirez has a new book available on Amazon called A Super 8 Filmmaker’s Journal.  It’s a how-to guide for anyone who thinks they might be interested in shooting with the old super 8 movie cameras. The book gives a historical overview of the super 8 film format, recommends labs that still process the film, and is full of stories and arcane technical information. Most importantly, it features Don’s distinctive perspective on super 8 and filmmaking in general. An excerpt:

My Canon 1014 XL-S is my all time favorite Super 8 camera. I can testify to its cinematic strengths and reliability. At the time it was manufactured, it was meant for the professional media maker- uncompromising in design and quality… I bought mine for $200 in 2004 from an ex-filmmaker and ex-con who had just finished an 18 month sentence in a federal penitentiary. He had been busted growing something like 70 marijuana plants in his suburban home! A dangerous way of raising your next indie film’s budget.

I got to know Don when I worked as editor on his autobiographical film “Trailer Trash: A Film Journal” which went on to win awards at a bunch of film festivals a few years ago. Here’s a link to a nice review in the Baltimore City Paper.