Just got back from the screening of the traveling Black Maria Film and Video Festival at the RISD auditorium. Cycle of Love won a third place "Director's Choice" award and was screened second to last in the line up. I was invited on stage and got a t-shirt and John Columbus, the director, asked me some questions.
John told me that the film has been very well received where he's screened it. I'm really thankful for the honor and proud to be part of the Director's Choice group which included my professor Brain Papciak's Steeples, the FAV department head John Terry's documentary tour of the Colosseum, and Dennis Tupicoff's Chainsaw!
I first saw Chainsaw three years ago at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and it blew my mind, as it did once again tonight. Awesome. My other favorites tonight were The Burning Wigs of Sedition, by Anna Fitch, which won the first place Stellar Prize in the open style category. It was the most far out bit of debauchery I've seen in quite a while, a steampunky mix of street theater and joyous anachronism. And for a perfect tie-in to the festival itself, La Premiere by Nick & Michael Regalbuto, was a fabulous narrative about in the invention of the Lumiere Cinematograph. Beautiful and entertaining, (though perhaps not entirely historically accurate?). This won the People's Choice award.
Check out the rest of the winners.
Oh yeah, Stanley Pickle also kicked ass.
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