Spotlight on Local Filmmakers: Matt Frantz, Zach Kleyn, Amir Motlagh, and Chris Garlington

Past Event at the  Central Art Center

03-04-05

Zach Kleyn
Positive, trt 03:15,2003

Inspired by the childhood game of muting the television and talking over the speechless actors, this short drama uses voyeuristic images of strangers in a cheap diner. Separate audio tracks are then laid on top of the video to tell a story of pain and deception. Positive is a part of an ongoing project to transform the way films are made by displacing actors, story and concept.

 

Chris Garlington
Lento, TRT 07:20
A young couple fight over the time it takes for her to get ready for a party.

 

Frantz/Townes Van Zandt
Billy, Boney, and Ma, trt 05:23
An animated music video that follows a young boy's strange adventures when he accidentally unearths some bones during a souvenir dig.
Song by Townes Van Zandt. www.townesvanzandt.com

 

Amir Motlagh

Pumkin Little uses a collection of digital video, photographs, interviews from people on the streets, a selection of old VHS video and an original soundtrack composed and perfomed by the director to tell the story of how breakdancing, discovered in middle school, became the artistic expression that ultimately carried the main subject through the roughest of times.  Shot like a cinematic dream, the film brings forth a thought-provoking portrait of a troubled teen's break from gangs and into the role of mentor by focusing on a pivotal time in the main character's life without using sensationalism. 

TRT:40min. 2005