Archive of Shows from the Athena Cinema
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Songs From The Nickel Preceded by Song In a Convenience StoreSong in a Convenience StoreDirector: Silas Weir Mitchell 16 min. U.S.A.On moonlit walks to the local mini-mart, a lonely young woman gets what she needs while searching for what she doesn’t really want, by the grace of a Sikh clerk.
Director: Alina Skrzeszewska 83 min. U.S.A. |
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Three Films About FaithThe Valley of Dry BonesDirector: Kate Schneider 18 min. Canada, U.S.A.Edna Barnett is struggling to support her Pastor, Virginia Lee Davis, to rebuild a once-vibrant evangelical church and school in the economically ravaged neighborhood of East 93rd Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Flanked by abandoned homes, the church has now become the last stitch of fabric holding the community together.
Director: Bob Hercules 58 min. U.S.A. |
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Avant TravelNotes on LibertyDirector: John Scott 8 min. Canada, U.S.A.On a boy’s visit to the Statue of Liberty this film playfully signals the difference between the ideals of the statue with the culture of fear and xenophobia that can still dominate post 9/11 America. I close my eyes and walk awayDirectors: Michele Castagnetti, Michael Castagnetti 3 min. U.S.A.Memories turn into dreams as dreams become memories. Our New YorkDirector: Yibin Tian 16 min. ChinaView This Film |
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Global Initiatives, Local ConsequencesVisit ChinaDirector: Anthony Samangy 12 min. U.S.A.Visit China explores ’American Consumerism’ through visual depictions of the loss of industry in Cleveland, Ohio and its subsequent effects on our global, social and individual states.
Director: Chi Jang Yin 16 min. U.S.A. |
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Bummer Summer Preceded by Sucker PunchSucker PunchDirector: Ryan Gould 18 min. U.S.A.A closeted masochist leads a double life while secretly getting his pain fix through underground bare knuckles boxing.
Director: Zach Weinbraub 78 min. U.S.A. |
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America: Future/Past Tense Three Films About Being AmericanPassengersDirector: Zeinabu Irene Davis 4 min. U.S.A.Inspired by my the experience of my sister-in-law on a flight to visit for Thanksgiving, this video, Passengers pays homage to American military men and women and the sacrifices that they make. As Americans, we experience very little impact, especially through mass media of the impact of the various wars or military actions our country takes. Hopefully this piece is a reminder of what that cost and experience really means. Tia and MarcoDirector: Annie Howell 17 min...This film was shown on Wednesday, April 28th 2010 View This Film |
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Experimental EpicsSpaceboyDirector: Mike Olenick 7 min. U.S.A.Inspired by a long lost sci-fi film, Spaceboy tells the tale of an intergalactic encounter between an astronaut and a mysterious and aging space siren.
Director: Shannon Silva 6 min. U.S.A. |
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Small Town HeroesStewart SummerDirector: Thomas Britt 15 min. U.S.A.During the summer in Stewart, Ohio, a band moves into an old schoolhouse and records an album.
Director: Christopher Holmes 12 min. U.S.A. |
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Cinematic PortraitsWrestling With My FatherDirector: Charles Fairbanks 5 min. U.S.A.A video of my father animatedly watching me wrestle, in three parts. (My father was a wrestler before me. you never stop being a wrestler.)
Director: Gabriele Neudecker 3 min. Austria, Zimbabwe |
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Orgasm, Inc. Preceded by Twist of FateTwist of FateDirector: Karen Aqua 9 min. U.S.A.This 35mm experimental animated film explores the transformative experience of being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. This expressionistic piece captures impressions of such an experience: upheaval, uncertainty, a sense of physical intrusion, and loss of control. Exploring this emotional landscape, the film visualizes an internal world inside the body, imagined on a cellular level.
Director: Liz Canner 80 min. U.S.A. |
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Family SagasWelcomeDirector: Maja Milanovic 21 min. Croatia, U.S.A.A new country in the West. Same family, different roles. Broken English. A gun goes off. A barricade on the door doesn’t keep her safe. A member of the family is missing in action. Old memories haunt her. The people in uniform do not know how to help. The noise from the street becomes louder. Pictures of a war left behind don’t go away. Do any doors lead to escape? Her name is Dolores and this is her home. Welcome.
Director: Rosanne Flynn 11 min... |
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Memory TracesCadavers in TreesDirector: Jeannette Louie 6 min. U.S.A.Cadavers in the Trees is a short animated representation of human mortality. A decaying cluster of trees whose limbs are riddled with carvings create a surreal landscape. These trees no longer appear to be botanical as the limbs have transformed into organisms resembling tattooed skin and bone. The idyllic habit of taking a walk through the forest elevates into a psychological journey.
Director: Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson 30 min. Iceland |
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Milking the Rhino Preceded by Unearthing the Pen and Mud MissiveUnearthing the PenDirector: Carol Salter 13 min. Uganda, United KingdomLochen, a young Uganda boy, desperately wants to go to school but fears his elders rejection of the education, symbolized by their curse on the pen will prevent this.
Director: Fatin Abbas 21 min. U.S.A. |
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The Illogic of WarBreakdownDirector: Kasumi X 18 min. U.S.A.Breakdown--a hilarious mash-up of public domain samples--is the ageless tale of corrupt power-seekers perpetrating hideous deceptions on gullible masses.
Director: Miguel Silveira 16 min. U.S.A. |
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Love and Romance: Seven Films About Hooking Up and Letting GoAntiquitiesDirector: Daniel Campbell 20 min. U.S.A.Terrance a minimum wage employee at the local antique mall has his life thrown out of balance by love, deceit, and his mean spirited boss in this offbeat, romantic comedy...
Director: Ariel Martin 20 min. Australia |
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Ballhawks Preceded by Dugout on Berry St.Dugout on Berry St.Director: Michael Rudnick 18 min. U.S.A.Shot primarily in the San Francisco Giants dug out and what the space used to be, the old No Nothing Cinema. Starring George Kuchar, Dean Snider and Rock Ross. The film also happens to be dedicated to those same three men.
Director: Michael Diedrich 74 min. U.S.A. |
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Landscapes Lost and FoundDomentica 6 April 3 ore 11:42Director: Flatform FlatformSunday, 6th April 11:42 a.m. is a video about landscape understood as a complex network of connections that guide relationships between people. It is a video that focuses on the relationships between actions and places, movements and the environment, because it points out that people are the place in which they live as well as the trajectories which the place itself creates. The video underlines the reciprocal connection between environment and its inhabitants, where territory plays an inevitable role also in its... This film was shown on Tuesday, April 27th 2010 View This Film |
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Avant-garde ExplorationsHydromorphone 8mgDirector: Francois Miron 3 min. CanadaA film about the sadness of a love lost and taking morphine to quell the pain The Chambered NautilusDirector: Vanessa Woods 4 min. U.S.A.The Chambered Nautilus is animated underwater film in which objects continually transform, dissolve and evolve. Made from over 100 original photograms, and hundreds of nineteenth century collage elements, this 16mm film is entirely hand made. The Bellows MarchDirector: Eric Dyer 5 min...This film was shown on Tuesday, April 27th 2010 View This Film |
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Nymph (Nang Mai)Director: Pen-ek RatanaruangRated Not RatedIn Thai with English subtitles
A long time ago in an unnamed forest an unfortunate young woman fell prey to two men. Soon after, the lifeless bodies of the two attackers were found floating down the stream nearby. No one knew what happened to the woman, or who or what had saved her life. May is a city woman who has everything she could ask for. Things are looking stellar: her career is on the rise and her long-time husband, Nop, showers love and attention on her. But fate or desire... This film was shown on Friday, April 23rd 2010 View This Film |
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Open/Closed SpacesSleeping BearDirector: Jack Cronin 11 min. U.S.A.Sleeping Bear, which is closely organized into seasons, is a study of the landscape and an attempt to represent a feeling this place might provoke.
Director: Lauren Cook 20 min. U.S.A. |
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