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April 1.
5PM SHOW PRANKS SHORT FILMS: (100 min.)
"Best of Faux" selected shorts for Pranks Film Festival
Introduced by Faux Film Festival Director, Mike Shkolnik, Portland, OR
Titles of films:
I Must Destroy You
Director: David Johnston, California
An anime battle goes awry when a fly gets into one of the robots.
Purple Bins
Director: Susan Deming, California
"Bring out yer dead!"
SharpFocus XS
Director: Jason Hall, New Jersey
Commercial for a new focus-enhancing drug.
Stroid 56
Director: Andy Collen, Oregon
Faux Commercial
Traffic stressing you out? Give your car that extra oomph! Voiceover by Portland mayoral candidate Scott Campbell, AKA Extremo The Clown.
SuperAnon
Director: Stephen Plitt, Canada
Mocumentary
Superheros get all the glory - sending their untalented relatives into therapy.
12 Hot Women
Director: Alan Chan, California
Who needs a plot when you have 12 hot women?
Jimmy's House of Hugs
Director: Julia Radochia, California
When you just need a hug, see Jimmy. His able staff will give you that warm and fuzzy feeling.
Superciliary Exercise Program
Director: Connor & Greg Chaney, Alaska
Social life on the skids? Maybe your facial expressions lack pizzazz!
The Inedible Bulk
Director: Mad Martian, Oregon
The origin story of the infamous Broccoli Man and a spoof of "The Fly". A broccoli farmer whose own kids won't eat broccoli conducts flavor experiments in the barn, accidentally transforming himself.
Truth In Advertising
Director: Tim Hamilton, Canada
If you could read the minds of advertising execs, here's what they're really thinking.
The Strange Case of Ray Milland
Director: Bruce Dellis, Arizona
This spoof of A&E biographies tells of the seedier side of Ray Milland. Who knew of his cannibalistic past?
Zombie Vegetarians
Director: Mad Martian, Oregon
Tainted veggie burgers turn people into zombies. Who will stop them?
New Testament
Director: Philip Pelletier, Oregon
The wine cooler of the gods!
Reemco Atomic Broom
Director: Jackson Douglas, California
This is no ordinary broom - it's the Reemco ATOMIC broom, with 100% pure cleaning power!
Zombie-American
Director: Nick Poppy, New York
A tale of the plight of our least understood
Torsten Kretchzmar - Entschlossenheit
Director: Steffen Frech, California
The music video and the making of video of the latest creation by the famous German artist.
7PM SHOW
MAL SHARPE PRESENTS: COYLE & SHARPE PILOT
(20 min.)The Impostors TV Pilot 1965 with host George Fenneman (Groucho Marx’s sidekick on YOU BET YOUR LIFE.) Coyle and Sharpe were the early masters of street pranks and puts-ons. Using hidden microphones, they clandestinely recorded their bizarre encounters with unsuspecting citizens on the streets of San Francisco in the 1960’s.
LIVE INTERVIEW / Q&A w/ MAL SHARPE by V. Vale (20 min.)
8PM SHOW
ABEL RAISES CAIN: a documentary by Jenny Abel and Jeff Hockett
Long before the deluge of reality TV dolts who drum up media attentionwith acts of idiocy, there was Alan Abel, a culture-jamming comic wit a conscience. The director of the 1970s cult films IS THERE SEX AFTER DEATH? and THE FAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, Abel has made a name for himself several times over with media stunts that are just ridiculous enough to be believable – especially to a media that feeds on salacious, far-fetched stories. Abel's mock-moral crusade "Citizens Against Breastfeeding" stirred controversy in the late 1990s, just as his "Society for Indecency to Naked Animals" had in the 1960s. Both groups made asinine calls for morality in America, and while both were complete jokes, for long stretches the only one in on the jokes was Abel himself and whomever he had brought along for the ride. From time to time, that "whomever" was his daughter, Jenny Abel. ABEL RAISES CAIN is Jenny's film, and it is as much a biography of her father as it is an exploration of her family life. What was it like to be raised by a man who always had a trick up his sleeve, and whose tricks always brought the media vultures swirling? Jenny was ostensibly in on the jokes, but, as we see in this oddly poignant film, it was never easy being raised by the one throwing the punch lines. (Patton Dodd, IFFB)
9:30PM SHOW
PRANKS SHORTS From Faux Film Festival
(REPEAT of 5 PM show - see above)
April 2.
5PM SHOW
The Yes Men
The story follows Andy and Mike from their beginnings with GWBush.com, and on to their tasteless parody of the WTO's website. Some visitors don’t notice the siteis a fake, and send speaking invitations meant for thereal WTO. Mike and Andy play along with the ruse andsoon find themselves attending important functions as WTO representatives.
Delighted to speak for the organization they oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock their unwitting audiences with darkly comic satires on global free trade. Weirdly, the expertsdon’t notice the joke and seem to agree with everyterrible idea the two can come up with.
Exhausted by their failed attempts to shock, Mike andAndy take a whole new approach for one final lecture.
The Yes Men is directed by Dan Olman, Sarah Price, andChris Smith, whose previous credits include the 1999Sundance Winner “American Movie.” It was released byUnited Artists.
Shorts ahead of feature:
San Francisco experimental films: "Nectar of the Cyclops" by Rock Ross, and "Hot Leatherette" by Robert Nelson (total time 10 min.)
7PM SHOW
CultureJam: Hijacking Commercial Culture
CultureJam: Hijacking Commercial Culture" (57 mins)delivers a fascinating rap on the 20th centurymovement called "Culture Jamming". Won the AudienceChoice Awards at both the Vancouver and AucklandInternational Film Festivals and was selected for over35 international festival screens. Nominated for theprestigious Donald Brittain Award for Best SocialIssue Documentary, it went on to win the Leo Award forBest Social Issue Documentary & Best Editing. Aired onCBC Newsworld and Vision TV, Canada and TRIO networkin United States.
Directed by Jill Sharpe
BLF Guests:
Blank De Covery (CIO for BLF), and Milton Randkalman (chief scientist for BLF) Live Interview/Q&A by V. Vale
PROGRAM OF SHORTS
Art of Bleeding by REVEREND AL (L.A. Cacophony Society) (3 min.)
STINK by DEAN SNIDER (5 min.)
Army Girls Gone Wild by Jihad Jerry of DEVO (4 min.)
PRANKS VIDEO from RE/Search: excerpt of Joe Coleman segment (8 min.)
Plus additional local experimental shorts (total time: approx. 25 min.)
9PM SHOW
CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING
Feature Documentary by REVEREND BILLY (85 min.)
Produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Rob VanAlkemade, this docu-comedy follows our trials and triumphs across the country as The Reverend Billy and his choir preach and sing to help holiday-abused Americans find a new Christmas without products. The film has played throughout the US, bringing Fair Trade activists and Evangelical Christians together in darkened movie theaters, emerging with new tools to BUY LESS and GIVE MORE!
Preceded by these short films:
- Taking the Night by FRANK DISCUSSION (3 min.)
- PRANKS VIDEO from RE/Search: excerpt of Frank Discussion segment (8 min.)
April 3.
5PM SHOW
ST STUPIDS DAY PARADE shot by Marian Wallace (20 min)
Joey Skaggs video collection from his press pranks (15 min)
The Not-Yet-Ascended Master of media manipulation, who recently appeared on prime-time television for his invention: "The Bullsh*t Detector."
Harmon Leon Show (25 min) Harmon Leon will appear in person presenting a representation of his media pranks. Harmon Leon is one of America's top infiltrators and media pranksters. His films have appeared at festivals all around the world. He is also the author of six books, including the upcoming
Brother's Rjukerooka (RE/Search Books), and The American Dream (Nation Books).
YOU'D BETTER WATCH OUT by SCOTT BEALE (10 min version.) Portland Santacon 1996: dozens, if not hundreds of Santas flew into Portland and attempted to bring "good cheer" much to the dismay of the Portland police and shopping mall merchants.
CAR HUNT by CHUCK SERINO (10 min.) Car Hunt is the now legendary event organized in 1995 where a group of friends took an Oldsmobile station wagon and added steel re-enforcements, setup a system where they could drive it via remote control and then “hunted” it down in a Nevada desert using an assortment of guns while riding in chase vehicles.
PRANKS VIDEO from RE/Search, Karen Finley segment (8 min.)
Plus MORE!! PRANKS! on SCREEN!!
7PM SHOW
Head Trip
(85 minutes)
A documentary film by John Law and Flecher Fleudujon
Produced by Central Services and Truth Serum Productions
In affiliation with Laughing Squid
www.laughingsquid.com
This film chronicles the journey of the Bay Area’s
iconic “Doggie Diner Heads” www.doggiediner.com on a
singular cross-country trek to New York City.
Just as the bombs started falling on Baghdad in early
2003, some of San Francisco most eccentric performers and whimsical characters (Bishop Joey/Ed Holmes, Steven Raspa, Blake More, Jarico Reese, etc.) set out for New York City accompanied by three ten foot tall, three hundred pound fiberglas Dachshund Heads. Careening across America, the crew visits the Grand Canyon, Graceland, the Gateway Arch, Mt. Rushmore, the Washington Monument and many other celebrated roadside
attractions along the way. Hauled in tow behind the SF Cyclecide Bike Rodeo’s www.cyclecide.com 1966 Gillig Autobus, the Doggies encounter the spirit of America during a confusing period. Roadside encounters with citizens and rendezvous with eccentric artist comrades through out the “Middle” States are the heart of this journey.
Head Trip is narrated by KPFA radio personality, cartoonist, erudite master of ceremonies, high priest
of the Church of the SubGenius and national treasure Hal (Dr. Howlin Owl) Robins. http://www.askdrhal.com/
Interview subjects include: cartoonist Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead), Ron Turner (Last Gasp Comix),
Harold Bachman (designer of the Doggie motif in the 1950’s) Cyclecide impresario Jarico Reese, and tough guy screenwriter & novelist Floyd Salas.
Music by: The Billy Nayer Show, Savage Republic, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Chicken John Rinaldi, Psychic TV, Phat Mandee, Sprocket Ensemble, The Phenomenauts, The Yard Dogs Roadshow, Nervous Cabaret, Polkacide, Kathy McKarty (singing Daniel Johnson,) Los Banos and Three Day Stubble.
View trailer
Filmmaker, JOHN LAW "LIVE" INTERVIEW / Q&A by V. Vale
John Law is Suicide Club founder and co-founder of original Burning Man festival
9PM SRL PROGRAM
http://www.srl.org
**Todd Blair Benefit**
MAKER FAIRE, 2007, SRL machine demonstration video (10 min.)
SRL at LAB, 2003, SRL machine demonstration video (3 min.)
PRANKS VIDEO from RE/Search, Mark Pauline segment (8 min.)
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LIVE INTERVIEW / Q&A with MARK PAULINE or other SRL crew member TBA
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UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2007, DUAL SCREEN video of machine demonstration (22 min.)
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CLOSING PRANKS / SRL PARTY Location TBA
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