Night Orchid
Friday
Jan 7@5:25pm, Lumiere (second showing Monday Jan 10
@ 7:15pm, Lumiere)
Mark
Atkins
(1998,
35mm, 106 min)
sponsored by Cineric Inc.
"Places talk to me...I can see their memories,"says Clay, the wandering hero of this atmospheric Southern Gothic tale. Settling into a small Florida town, he uncovers a tangled web of questions, ghosts and lies, all connected to a beautiful young woman who lives alone within an abandoned plantation. Part of the same "Florida 5" collective as the directors of BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, Mark Atkins uses a regional storytelling aesthetic connected more to Flannery O'Connor than Quentin Tarantino, one which favors the construction of mood over mere cinematic pyrotechnics. Creating a languorous landscape of eerie orange groves and dilapidated mansions still haunted with the ghosts and memories of a time forgotten, NIGHT ORCHID draws its distinctive, haunting power not only from its painterly cinematography and well-paced direction, but also from its revisitation of the rich traditions of American gothic storytelling, where dreams and nightmares will always thrive. --Jason Sanders
In Attendance director Mark Atkins, cast members Dale Paris, Thomas Atkins, Mary Ellen O'Brien
Contact Mark Atkins, Way Down East Productions, 15941 Annie Drive, Grass Valley, CA 95949 mark@nightorchid.com 530.477.1618
Animation
Ghost
of Stephen Foster
Matthew
Nastuk and Raymond Persi
(1999m
35mm, 3min)
Contact Matthew
Nastuk and Raymond Persi 1126 Raleigh St, Glendale, Ca 91205 ffpht@yahoo.com
818.240.0828
