Explore UT 2007 Faculty Films Showcase Program

A selection of films made by faculty in the Department of

Radio-Television-Film.

11am-5pm

Continuous but with specific running times

CMA Auditorium

All ages, though some films may include content appropriate only for adult viewers.

The Wilgus Stories (Andrew Garrison | 57 minutes)

Meet Wilgus Collier, an Eastern Kentucky coal miner's son who grows up surrounded by his town's quirky characters. Rankling Fat Monroe, macho Uncle Delmer and Wilgus' vulnerable friend Maxine all play pivotal parts as Wilgus comes of age in three poignant stories set against the backdrop of the lush Appalachian countryside.

http://www.itvs.org/wilgus/

Troop 1500 (Ellen Spiro | 40 minutes)

Their mothers may be convicted prostitutes, thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Girl Scout Troop 1500 want to be doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, social workers and marine biologists.

http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2004/girlscouts.html

Excerpts from Trip to Roswell (Geoff Marslett | 7 minutes)

Trip To Roswell, New Mexico is an alien-filled music video for Joe West's song by the same name. It's shot entirely on digital video on location in New Mexico with some visual effects added in back here in Austin.

http://www.swervepictures.com/home.htm

Girl Wrestler (Diane Zander | 57 minutes)

This documentary follows Tara Neal, a thirteen year-old girl who wrestles boys competitively in Olympic-style matches. The film explores the pressure to cut weight, family conflict, and fierce policy debates over Title IX.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/girlwrestler/

Loaves and Fishes (Nancy Schiesari | 28 minutes)

Based on a true story, Nancy Shiesari uses documentary elements to explore the irony of Mexican Americans exploiting illegal immigrants. This half-hour dramatic film is written by and staring Amparo Garcia-Crow, an award winning Latina playwright from Texas. Featured at the 2000 SXSW film festival, it aired on The Territory, a Houston PBS affiliated series on independent cinema.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A76946

Last Man Standing (Paul Stekler | 86 minutes)

A film with a compelling cinematic narrative mediated by a filmmaker with genuine political expertise. Paul Stekler takes a long look at Texas' metamorphosis from LBJ and Ann Richards country to today's Republican dominance and asks, essentially, "Is that all there is?"

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/lastmanstanding/behind_interview.html

Eight Movements (Geoff Marslett | 23 minutes)

Eight Movements is an experimental documentary both in form and content. Rather than presenting a person or an event, it focuses on an idea. Movement is the force within choices, changes, and the creative spark of self. Flickering Super 8 film and engaging musical accompaniments enhance the journeys from sub-atomic chemical reactions to personal addiction; from female artistic expression to railroad expansion into a West filled with the smoke of human error. Like a song, each piece is unique but linked to the bittersweet and hopeful reality of movement.

http://rtf.utexas.edu/pdf/newsletter/archive/2005/sept24-30.pdf

Nuclear Family (Don Howard | 60 minutes)

Nuclear Family is a three-part documentary essay on boys and girls in Texas. Using some traditional cinéma vérité techniques, it explores the collective nature of three familiar rites of passage‹cheerleading tryouts, Friday night football games, and weddings‹and conjoins them into something entirely unique, a metaphoric Texas (and American) family. Think Dziga Vertov in Fort Worth.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A178260

Justice in the Coalfields (Anne Lewis | 57 minutes)

This documentary follows the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) strike against the Pittston Coal Company and explores the strike's social, cultural, and economic impact on coalfield communities.

http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/lewisa/

Between Canvas and Celluloid (Samantha Krukowski | 10 minutes)

An investigation of processes of image formation, interaction and registration. Shapes derived from oil paintings inspired by scientific imagery were isolated and painted onto celluloid. These images, when overlaid and set in motion, create something akin to bloodstreams and neural networks. Sewing directly onto and into celluloid produces marks and eruptions that serve as measuring devices for the movement of the first image sets. The audio includes sounds and hums from sewing machines of various vintages.

http://www.cm.aces.utexas.edu/faculty/skrukowski/writings/betweencanvasandcelluloid.html

Chimp Rescue (Richard Lewis l 29 minutes)

In 1997, the director of New York University's biomedical research lab was ordered to shut his doors by the end of the year and send all of his chimpanzees to a competing facility in New Mexico, one with an extremely questionable record of animal care.  Having grown to know -- and indeed love -- his chimps over the decades that they had been in his lab, the director chose to disobey the order and, unbeknownst to NYU, began spiriting the animals to sanctuaries across North America.  Chimp Rescue documents his frantic race against the clock and his Herculean efforts to find permanent homes for hundreds of animals before the close of the year.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue13/screens.doctour.html

The Snow Monkeys of Texas (Richard Lewis I 23 minutes)

The Snow Monkeys of Texas tells the strange and somewhat comical history of a troop of Japanese snow monkeys and their ongoing struggle to find a home.  After overpopulating and wreaking havoc outside their native Kyoto, 150 monkeys were brought to Texas in 1972.  Initial hardships -- from cacti to rattlesnakes to scorching heat -- were overcome and led to eventual triumphs.  Comparisons between the newcomers and their relatives left behind reveal intriguing and sometimes startling differences, differences which the 5000 mile separation has brought about in just twenty years time.  Today, the troop -- now numbering more than 600 -- faces a new eviction notice, and the monkeys' caretakers are once again racing against the clock to find them a permanent place to call their own.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue13/screens.doctour.html

Explore UT 2007 Student Films Showcase Program

A selection of films made by students in the Department of

Radio-Television-Film courses.

11am-5pm

Continuous but with specific running times

CMB Studio 4D

All ages, though some films may have content appropriate only for adult

viewers.

10 Under 10 (1 hour)

LA Showcase 2004 (1.5 hours)

Experimental Films Showcase (1 hour)

Animation Showcase (1 hour)

Selections from the East Austin Stories (1 hour)