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Roxie Cinema    2/9/2007    2:15PM

Chris Gore presents ‘Filmmaking in the Nude,’ on Friday, February 9 at 2:15p, in which he reveals his journey from movie geek to moviemaker. Best known as the creator of Film Threat, he reveals the gory details of slaving in underground publishing, surviving celebrity egos, battles with the studios and getting his first feature produced. Part stand-up, part helpful advice for those pursuing a life in indie film, this one-man show informs and entertains. Mature Audiences Only.

Free admission.

Victoria Theater 2/11/2007 9:30 PM

 

“Karen Kramer’s hopeful, lovingly made documentary, a ballad with a recurrent refrain, never lets us forget that the spirit will not die. It lives in the wet wood at the Bitter End, in every romantic who flees Idaho, sobbing onto the page—in all the eternal recurrence of revolt, youth, and art. Kramer, a respected New York-based filmmaker since her 1978 Appalacian snake-handling church film, uses a straightforward presentation to tell the story of a twisting, alternative land.

Roxie Cinema     2/9/2007     4:30PM

Victoria Theater     2/11/2007     4:30Pm

"Dance Party, USA is a remarkably delicate construction, directed with extraordinary empathy."- New York Times

“My goal was to create a film that feels like real life. Most films about teens are filled with people who don’t act how anyone really acts. I wanted to make a different kind of film.” - Director Aaron Katz

Apathetic Portland teen Gus hangs around doing nothing most of the time. Mainly he likes to tell half-true stories to his buddy Bill about all the girls he’s slept with and all the drugs he’s done. Jessica is seventeen too, and doesn't seem to have that much in common with anyone anymore – not even her best friend Christie.

Victoria Theater 2/9/2007 7PM

                            2/11/2007 12PM

IndieFest alumnus Sean Meredith (In Smog and Thunder) returns to the Festival with one of the most interesting films we've seen this year. Dante's Inferno has been around for 700 years, but it's never been interpreted with exquisitely hand-drawn paper puppets in a kind of apocalyptic graphic novel meets Victorian-era toy theater—until now.

Dante’s Inferno is a unique, subversive, darkly satirical update of the original 14th century literary classic. Sporting a hoodie and a hellish hangover, Dante (Dermot Mulroney, last heard at IndieFest in Bill Plympton's “Hair High”) wakes up in a strange part of town. The first guy he sees is the ancient Roman poet Virgil (James Cromwell, “The Queen,” and “The Revenge of the Nerds”), wearing an industrial-strength mullet and a brown bathrobe. With limited options, Dante follows Virgil on a darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld.

Roxie Cinema    2/9/2007    7PM

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California Theater-Berkeley    2/13/2007    7PM

USA Premiere

“I am reworking old sexploitation movies from the 60s and early 70s from a woman's point of view. Vintage sexploitation films interest me because they revolve around fantasies of a woman's power over the male, her beauty, her desirability, her sex appeal.” - Writer/Director/Star Anna Biller

“Viva” is a cult freak-out retro 1970s spectacle, about a bored housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her Ken-doll husband, Barbi is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women's lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town.

Roxie Cinema    2/9/2007    9:30PM

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World Premiere

 In today’s Tokyo you can find anything you can imagine—and at the same time get a new surprise on every corner. While most of Japanese society still preaches uniformity and order, there is an important underground world, where people lead a freer life. This is the Tokyo of “Rock N Tokyo.”

In Valente’s film we experience a succession of Japanese rock stories: The incredibly popular, leather-and-shades Guitar Wolf; some garage rock amongst the loudest ever heard; The 5678’s, rockabilly queens with a wild 50s elegance (recently introduced to the world in a memorable scene from Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill”); the Jet Boys, lead by an exhibitionist singer/guitar player; and Nine, young guys who’re playing in Shinjuku station as if it was the most important concert of their lives.

Victoria Theater    2/9/2007    9:30PM

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World Premiere

It is with great pleasure that we bring you the World Premiere of Leah Walker's “The Third Eye,” a truly weird, psychological thriller that delves into the bizarre realm of voluntary trepanation: i.e. an ancient procedure that involves drilling a hole in you head to relieve the pressure in your skull and achieve enlightenment. If this sounds like an unbelievable premise for an IndieFest film, please visit the International Trepanation Advocacy Group at www.trepan.com for more information about the wonders of this old-school elective surgery.

Primitive Screwheads and Tossing Alice

Victoria Theater

2/9/2007 11:45PM

2/10/2007 11:45PM

2/16/2007 11:45PM

2/17/2007 11:45PM

The Primitive Screwheads, along with their friends Tossing Alice, present “The Crazy Go Nuts Show;” a late night comedy/horror variety program that harkens back to the glory days of The Donnie and Marie Show and Creature Features.

The Show features a variety of outrageous sketches, music, improv, and the Stand-up Comedy Contest: Driest Comic Standing, in which local comedians perform their routines and audiences get a chance to throw water balloons at the contestant they dislike. Think Gong Show…only with water balloons.

Roxie Cinema     2/9/2007     11:45PM

Victoria Theater     2/17/2007     9:30PM

“...Plunges its audience into a violent abyss of extremities so potent that a person fainted during its World Premiere.” - FantAsia film festival program note

Our midnight films traditionally push the envelope, but “Neighborhood Watch” re-sets the bar. The acclaimed (and often controversial) director of music videos for The Residents, Renaldo and the Loaf, and Oingo Boingo, Graeme Whifler brings us his feature debut—the sickest, most disgusting movie that IndieFest has ever presented. So we really hope you enjoy it!