Favorites & Deep Cuts #1 from Filmmaker Magazine

Director: Multiple Dirs

2007 / 90min / DCP

According to… dir. Kevin Jerome Everson

Making use of a rich source of found footage and original 16mm films, Everson's 2007 short considers several versions of tragic events in southern rural Black America.

Fry Day, dir. Laura Moss

For one 16-year-old teenage girl in Moss’s short, a party celebrating the execution of Ted Bundy outside of Florida State Prison leads to a nail-bitingly tense, mournfully sad coming-of-age adventure.

Pioneer, dir. David Lowery

Will Oldham plays a father telling a mysterious and frightening bedtime story—a violent parable about a soldier and an absent mother—to his young son in an early short developing the mixture of childlike wonder and adult wisdom characterizing Lowery’s subsequent work.

Yung Lean, Please Be My Yung Love, dir. Julia Mellen Mellen’s rapid-fire monologue describes an imaginary perfect, charmingly chaste day spent with the crush-worthy rapper, envisioned in lo-fi but evocative animation rendered via a painting program adapted to custom ends.

Commodity City, dir. Jessica Kingdon

Flowers, knock-off Barbies and an infinite variety of miniature Christmas trees are among the goods on sale at Yiwu Market, the world’s largest wholesale consumer market, captured in Kingdon’s precise comic tableaus.

Mack Does MacDowell: Woodlands Woodlands Sketches Sketches: # 3: At an Old Trysting Place, dir. Jodie Mack

Made during a residency, experimental animator Mack envisions making old-fashioned love to herself via stroboscopic techniques that render the barest of resources and settings into a flickering spectacle that’s both old and new.