SUNDANCE 2010: NEW FRONTIER

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers by Tim Rutili

This program highlights work that explores the limits of traditional aesthetics and the narrative structures of filmmaking. Film info from the Sundance press release.

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers / USA (Director and screenwriter: Tim Rutili) — A fortune teller lives and works in and old house crowded with ghosts.  When a mysterious light appears in the woods, the ghosts realize they are trapped and begin to rebel. Cast: Angela Bettis. World Premiere

Double Take / Germany, Netherlands (Director: Johan Grimonprez) — Alfred Hitchcock is unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. As television hijacks cinema, and Khrushchev debates Nixon, sexual politics quietly take off and Hitchcock himself blackmails housewives with brands they can't refuse. Cast: Mark Perry, Ron Burrage. North American Premiere

Memories of Overdevelopment / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Miguel Coyula) — Live action mixes with animation and newsreel footage of historical events to form a collage that emulates the way personal memory works for a misanthropic Cuban intellectual. An adaptation of a novel by Cuban author Edmundo Desnoes. Cast: Ron Blair.  World Premiere

ODDSAC / USA (Director: Daniel Perez) — An earthy, psychedelic experimental narrative infused with the band, Animal Collective's aural and musical sensibilities. World Premiere

Pepperminta / Austria, Switzerland (Director: Pipilotti Rist; Screenwriters: Pipilotti Rist, Chris Niemeyer) — A magical and visually stunning contemporary fantasy about a young woman with an anarchist imagination. Together with Pepperminta's best friends, colors and strawberries, she sets out to fight for a more humane world. Cast: Ewelina Guzik North American Premiere. 

Utopia in Four Movements / USA (Directors: Sam Green and Dave Cerf) — In this "live documentary" Sam Green's live narration blends with Dave Cerf's soundtrack to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the 21st century.  World Premiere