Analog Roam
A film by Kurt Wahlner, 11 min, 2002.
Presented in 35mm CinemaScope!
Co produced by nudieshorts.com and White Telephone
Synopsis
Ever wondered what it's like to be out in nature with nothing on? Analog Roam will take you about as close as you will ever get without doffing your duds. This wonderful new short film is a groundbreaker in many ways; from the unique presentation of all the action in split screen to its unusual vision of a world with no clothes.
What is the worst thing that could happen to you? For many people, the answer might list being lost, naked, hungry and cold — all at the same time.
And this is exactly what happens to the characters in Analog Roam, the remarkable new short film from director Kurt Wahlner, starring Athena Demos and Devin Reeves. This unique film is the story of two people, a man and a woman, who take a nude journey into the forest and become hopelessly lost, with darkness approaching.
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Nude Not
A film by Thomas Lundy, r/t 5:57, 2000, 16mm, B&W, Canada
Synopsis
Jodie enters into a strange world when the house she moves into seems to be full of perpetually nude people. Is it a dream, a drug induced illusion, a prank or weird paradox?
Festivals/Public Screenings/Broadcast:
Molodist (Kiev, Ukraine), Dahlonega (USA), Anza Celluloid Social Club & Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver), Salt Spring Island film festival, Hart House Film Board Screening Gala & Clinton's Comedy Cafe (Toronto), aired on Canal+ television in 2001 in France, Switzerland, Monaco and Mauritius; and on INSIDE ENTERTAINMENT (CTV, Canada.)
Credits:
Directed, produced and written by Thomas Lundy; Starring Jane Antoni, Alexis Lundy, Kelsey Brown and Thomas Lundy; Cinematography by Richard Fox; Edited by Michael Dorn; Music by Tony Vieira; Sound by Ken MacKay, Brian Newby and John Wojewoda; Camera Assistant Gary Mulcahey.
Being Human
A film by Lisa Seidenberg, MiniDV, 31 minutes, 2003 Metro Video
Being Human is a new documentary about British human rights activists Vincent Bethell and Russell Shaw Higgs who wage a campaign for the right to be naked in public.
"I think it's a very modest thing to actually be naked," says Bethell in the film, who spent 6 months in prison totally naked, "to just be yourself, just to say this is just me, I'm a human being, I belong to the human race."
As the two are beseiged by media and onlookers, they struggle to get their message across about inhumanity and commodification of modern society. The peak event is a universal call for everyone to take their clothes off on July 1, 2001.
Footage from this film was actually used in court to win their release.
Premiered in New York at Anthology Film Archives on January 15, 2003. Future screenings: New England Film & Video Festival, Harvard Film Archive, March 26 Boston
Riverdogs
A film by Robb Moss (producer/director/camera/editor) 30 min, 1982, 16mm, color, USA
Synopsis
Dreamy 280 mile Colorado River trip signifying the end of the filmmaker’s greatly extended adolescence, shot in Northwest Arizona.
Festivals/Public Screenings/Broadcast:
Premiere: The Moab Film Festival
Photograph of Robb Moss by Jack Leuders-Booth
Robb Moss is an independent, non-fiction filmmaker whose work has shown at the Telluride Film Festival, the Cinéma du Réel in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has shot films in Ethiopia, Liberia, Greece, Mexico, Hungary, Japan, Turkey, Nicaragua and the Gambia. Many of these films—on such subjects as famine, genocide and the large-scale structure of the universe—have been broadcast nationally. He is the past board chair and president of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF) and has taught filmmaking at Harvard University for the past 15 years.
Also recommended: The Same River Twice (2003), now playing in theaters. Explores the onset of adulthood for a group of former river guides featured in Riverdogs, filmed twenty years earlier (see above). First you’re naked and then you’re middle-aged. Film by Robb Moss (Producer/director/camera), non-fiction, 16mm and digital video, color, 78 min. World Premiere: Sundance Film Festival.
Premiere! Solstice: A Celebration of the Art of Bodypainting
Produced by James W. Taylor/Circle Rock Productions, edited by Alicia Berger, r/t <11 mins, 2004, MiniDV
A look inside the record-breaking ensemble of eighty painted naked cyclists (four times as many as in years previous) during the 2003 Summer Solstice Parade in Seattle. The group has rapidly gone from small group of naked streakers on bikes to a group priding itself on its interaction with the parade's many ensembles and its contribution to the artistic energy of the distinctively Fremont Solstice celebration with bodypainting and overwelming positive energy. This year the group officially joined the Fremont Arts Council event by hosting a float. The film is an insider's view of the bodypainting party and parade with exclusive interviews with several of the colorful personalities involved in this annual event within an event.
A procession of painted cyclists moves through the streets of Seattle toward the 2003 Summer Solstice Parade. Above photo courtesy Jacob Sayles.