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GIBTOWN
Sat 5/26 3:00pm
HYBRID
Sat
5/26 5:00pm
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GIBTOWN
Michelle
Sachat, 2000, 64 min.
GIBTOWN is the nickname for Gibsonton, Florida, the retirement and off-season home for hundreds of carnival and circus show people. The town was at one time considered the oddest place is America. You can walk into any restaurant and find The Worlds Only Living Half Girl sipping coffee with her 8 foot 4 inch husband, Giant Al. They, along with The Lobster Man, Alligator Skin Man and the Monkey Girl, among others, made their living touring with carnival sideshows.
Contact Maury Solomon mosolo@earthlink.net
WITH:
ATOMIC
ED AND THE BLACK HOLE
(Documentary
Short prize winner at SXSW) Over 30 years ago, Ed quit his job making
bombs in Los Alamos and opened an unofficial museum of nuclear waste.
(Ellen Spiro, 27min.)
contact Ellen Spiro spirovich@yahoo.com
HYBRID
Monteith
McCollum, 2000, 93 min.
This
years Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury Award winner for best feature,
HYBRID is about a 100-year old Iowa farmer and his life-long obsession
with hybrid seed corn. Milford Beeghly began experimenting with hybrid
seed in secret in the 30s, peddling it to skeptical farmers at a time
when intervening in the natural process was seen by some as an oddity,
a hoax, even a sin. Growing corn is all about sex: the promiscuous
mating ritual of corn, the inbreeding and pimping for pollen. HYBRID
is located far from the realm of genteel biographical inquiryits a
staggeringly original, impishly witty and rigorously inventive work
that defies classification.
Contact Monteith McCollum mcger@binghamton.edu
Additional links:
Hybrid review:
http://www.indiewire.com/film/reviews/
rev_010403_NDNF_Hybrid.html