With Ukrainian musical hero Kozak Siromaha at the Ukrainian Celebration last August. We had a night of Ukrainian films at the Ukrainian Celebration at DUFF 2024 to benefit the nonprofit organization Ukrainians of Colorado and featured his music video Gulyali (Гуляли - I Walk). We will have another fundraising night of Ukrainian films on August 21st, 2025.
Denver Underground Film Festival. November 18, 19 & 20, 2024.
Althea Center Theater.
Revelation To The Disembodied (2022) USA. 09:20 min. Director: André Silva.
Fragments of a collective post-human dream construct a world that straddles hyper-technological, mythological, and ecological dimensions.
André Silva is an experimental animator and film educator living in Wilmington, North Carolina.
His short films have screened at festivals internationally including SXSW, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Girona Film Festival and Atlanta Film Festival and have garnered many "best of" awards. In 2019, he was awarded the prestigious North Carolina Artist Fellowship. André founded and directed the Cape Fear Environmental Film Forum.
See it at Denver Underground Film Festival. November 18, 19 & 20, 2024.
Althea Center Theater.
Lion In The Wind (2023). USA. 04:47 min.
Director: TT Takemoto.
A fugue for forgetting windmills in the West. This cameraless “emulsion lift” film was made from a discarded 35mm reel of a Hong Kong martial arts western featuring Jet Li as a kung fu master who loses his memory and fights bandits and windmills as he makes his journey to Chinatown.
TT Takemoto's experimental films explore queer Asian American history and identity by manipulating archival and found footage through labor-intensive processes of painting, scratching, and lifting 35mm/16mm emulsion. Takemoto was awarded Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental Film at Slamdance and Best Experimental Film Jury Award at Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival.
These are the official selections for part 1 of the 20/21 edition of Denver Underground Film Festival to be showcased June 26, 2021, 6 pm, Althea Center Theater, Denver, CO.
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2020
Director: Tom Bessoir. Queens, NY.
Experimental film. 01:41 minutes.
A film for 2020, a year to remember.
2020 different colors create a flicker film.
Music by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
2020 receives an Honorable Mention for Best Musical Score.
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The Stream X
Director: Hiroya Sakurai, Japan.
Experimental short. 06:53 minutes.
In the man-made waterways of rice paddies nature
is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty.
In episode 10 of the series I replaced the underwater sounds
with the outside sounds and the wind pushes the plants and algae
as a metaphor for the liveliness of water.
Professor Sakurai is a 3rd time DUFF return filmmaker.
The Stream X receives an Honorable Mention for Best Cinematography
and Best Audio Editing.
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Stonecutter
Director: Jason Affolder. Jerome, AZ.
Short documentary. 10:00 minutes.
An impressionistic portrait of sculptor Scott Owens at work
in his Jerome, Arizona studio, featuring candid stories
from a lifetime devoted to making art.
Stonecutter receives the Best Short Documentary Award.
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Bearing Witness Triptych: Just Breathe the Air.
Directors: Jack Cochran and Pamela Falkenberg. Austin, TX.
Experimental short. 03:58 minutes.
Based on a found poem by Jack Cochran the film bears witness
to the consequences of Trump’s decision to play down the danger
of the COVID pandemic.
Jack Cochran and Pamela Falkenberg are 2nd time DUFF return filmmakers.
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How to Fall in Love in a Brothel
Director: Sunhui Chang, Portland, OR.
Narrative Short. 11:00 minutes.
Set in 1960 Incheon, South Korea. As a young country struggles
to rebuild after the war two young people find love
in an unexpected and unlikely setting.
In Korean with English Subtitles.
This film receives the award for Second Place Narrative Short.
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Battle
Director: Hüseyin Mert Erverdi. Turkey.
Experimental short. 03:06 minutes.
Eastern and western sensibilities of calligraphy and painting
evoke a feeling of an inner battle. A salute to Stan Brakhage’s
final film (Chinese Series) made during his own battle with cancer
by wetting a filmstrip with saliva and using his fingernail
to scratch marks into the emulsion. ‘Battle’ is about the
not so silent battles we fight.
Battle receives the award for Best Experimental Short.
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