Short Anarchy

Last night Mary Beth and I went up to Crosstown to see the Indie Memphis screening of Slamdance film festival's "anarchy shorts." I went in not know much about it other than it sounded pretty interesting. Well, it was pretty fucking awesome. From the descriptions I thought it'd be on the somewhat lo-fi end of diy, but everything was really well made. There were a few that were really damn good. And one (Carnal Orient) had extremely awesome music and I wanted to figure out who did it so I looked for the credits and then it turns out it's Angela Seo of fuckin' Xiu Xiu! Then there was another one (Ceiling Finger) that had exceptionally awesome music by someone named Jin Kim (now I'm seeing that was the cinematographer...did I catch the wrong credit? or it's possible one person did multiple things...). There was another one with good music that I think was done by someone called Mark Arson, now I can't remember which film that was (it might have been Gwilliam). Hell, there was a lot of great music. Also worth noting, was the visuals in The Bulb (80s computer lines much similar to my Com Truise shirt). There were a couple that didn't grab me but there wasn't anything I thought was bad. And most of it was really good. Audience reactions were pretty amusing. I mean, a lot of it was pretty outlandish (though not as graphic, in a way, that I was expecting, though a lot of it was "graphic" I guess by certain standards, but almost all very absurd). The audience mostly seemed really into it overall, actually. Which is good. Points to absurdity in cinema.