30,
Still Single:
Contemplating Suicide
Saturday
Jan 8@7:45pm Lumiere (second showing Thursday Jan 13@7:35pm
at Fine Arts)
Gregory
Lanesey
(1998,
16mm, 92 min)
sponsored by Live 105
Awarded Best
Film at the Santa Monica Film Festival, 30, STILL SINGLE records the travails
of Midwesterner Mitchell Munson (Christopher May), who has been searching
for his “perfect woman” in the modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah
known as Los Angeles. After seven years of dating hell, Mitchell plans
his exodus from L.A. back to the promised land of the Midwest. Bags packed,
Mitchell begins his trek home, stopping off at his favorite cafe on the
beach for a final ceremonial omelette. Flashbacks to 7 years of dating
misery ensue and are intercut with frank female commentary that offers
the kind of narrative equanimity only provided by the other side of the
story. The laconic conversation created by this montage offers a new perspective
on masculinity, femininity, and the taboos and horrors of the dating scene.
—Kathleen P. Skillicorn
In Attendance director Gregory Lanesey and Producer Matt Rudecki
Contact
Matt Rudecki,
Team LAN Productions,
8300 Manitoba St #211,
Los Angeles, CA 90293 glanesey@bouquet.com 310.573.7394 ext 116
Animation
Everybody
Bowl
Dustin
Woehrmann
(1998, 16mm,
3 min)
Contact
Dustin Woehrmann,
11911 Mayfield Ave #5,
Los Angeles, CA 90049 dustin1@earthlink.net 310.207.6983