Tuesday, August 20 at 7pm SCRIBE PRODUCERS’ FORUM Shored Up – Philadelphia Premiere! dir. Ben Kalina, US, 2013, digital, 83 min.
Ben Kalina in person for a post-screening discussion
Shored Up is a documentary that asks tough questions about our coastal communities and our relationship to the land. What will a rising sea do to our homes, our businesses, and the survival of our communities? Can we afford to pile enough sand on our shores to keep the ocean at bay? In Long Beach Island, New Jersey and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, surfers, politicians, scientists, and residents are racing to answer these questions.
Presented in partnership with Sierra Club Philadelphia Chapter.
Friday, August 23 at 8pm EXHUMED FILMS
Formed in 1997, Exhumed Films was created to provide a theatrical venue for a much beloved art form that had all but disappeared in the 1990s and is in further decline in the early 21st Century: the B-grade horror movie. From the late-1960s through the mid-1980s, low-budget horror films prospered by playing drive-in movie theaters and single-screen movie houses across the country. In these days before video, genre fans could see newly released“ grindhouse” films at almost any local theater, often on double- or triple-bills with other horror movies from years past. Some of these movies – such as Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween and Evil Dead – are now thought by many critics to be minor classics. As well, several of today’ s most respected filmmakers cut their teeth on low budget horror.
Monday, August 26 at 9pm INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART Last Dance: Dirty Looks at the End of Days
Dirty Looks makes its Philadelphia debut! A New York-based roaming platform for queer experimental film and video, Dirty Looks will screen an evening of apocalyptic-themed recent work by Stephanie Barber, Harry Dodge, Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke, Michael Robinson, Luther Price, Nao Bustamante, and A. K. Burns. In an attempt to nurture a greater sense of community and to cultivate a dynamic view of historical queer production, Dirty Looks reimagines the screening situations of the experimental and Underground Film boom of the 1960s and 70s. Situating screenings in alternative spaces, Dirty Looks celebrates the collaborative and social aspects of NYC film culture. Hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Art, International House, Penn Cinema Studies, and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at Penn.( The evening kicks off at 9pm with a reception for incoming Penn students as part of Penn’ s New Student Orientation.)
Healing dir. Stephanie Barber, 2012, 12 min.
Ipse Dixit dir. Harry Dodge, 2011, 4 min.
A Day for Cake and Accidents dir. Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke, 2013, 4 min.
She Gone Rogue dir. Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, 2012, 22 min.
If There Be Thorns dir. Michael Robinson, 2009, 14 min.
Inside Velvet K dir. Luther Price, 2006, 10 min.
Tableau dir. Nao Bustamante, 2013, 17 min.
Earthship 2013 dir. A. K. Burns, 2012, 8 min.
Total running time: 90 min. Free screening. ihousephilly. org