Gleaners Film Festival

Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site Gleaners Film Festival Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:25:25 +0000 https://gleaners.site en About main https://gleaners.site/About-main Wed, 11 May 2022 20:25:40 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/About-main          Gleaners Film Festival is a non-profit event that exhibits and celebrates marginal cinematic forms, subjects, and communities. Situated in the city of Lancaster, PA at Franklin & Marshall College, the festival brings together independent local, national, and international work that is often overlooked by dominant industry and mainstream cultural platforms.  <img width="436" height="188" width_o="436" height_o="188" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91dc5d2957a683668af2a250578775b58e7a930fec82212de27b25c46b8b9dce/Headers_communitypartners2.png" data-mid="143117836" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/436/i/91dc5d2957a683668af2a250578775b58e7a930fec82212de27b25c46b8b9dce/Headers_communitypartners2.png" />          Gleaners Film Festival is made possible by generous support from a range of institutions in the Lancaster community:  the Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster, the F&M Summer Scholars Program, the Department of Art, Art History, and Film, the Phillips Museum of Art, Zoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse, and the School District of Lancaster. Program at a glance https://gleaners.site/Program-at-a-glance Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:50:32 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/Program-at-a-glance Thursday, September 22, 2022 6:30pm: OPENING FEATURE Weis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College Pink Flamingos (1972, John Waters) 8:30pm: INSTALLATIONS AND OPENING RECEPTION WVAC Galleries, Winter Visual Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College Tiona Nekkia McCloddenAfricanus Okokon Friday, September 23, 2022 10:30am: JACK SMITH Weis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo (1967)Flaming Creatures (1962) 1:00pm: CONTEMPORARY SHORTSZoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse  Instructions on How to Make Film (2018, Nazli Dinçel)Civil War Surveillance Poem - Part 1 (2020, Mitch McCabe) Baltimore (2021, Margaret Rorison)Malembe (2020, Luis Arnias) Little Sky (2021, Jess X. Snow)    3:30pm: MORGAN QUAINTANCE Weis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College Missing Time (2019)A Human Certainty (2021) South (2020) 7:30pm: FALSE NEGATIVE - AN EVENING WITH JOHN WATERS Barshinger Center for the Musical Arts, Franklin & Marshall College Saturday, September 24, 2022 10:30am: LOCAL SHORTSWeis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College I Am Somebody (1970, Madeline Anderson)The Sticklet Weaver (2021, James Hollenbaugh)New Gleaners Workshop Documentaries 1:00pm: CITY PORTRAITSWeis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College H-E-L-L-O (2014, Cauleen Smith) Reading 1974: Portrait of a City (1975, Gary Adelstein, Costa Mantis, Jerry Orr) 3:30pm: AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSUWeis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College Me Broni Ba (2009) Split Ends; I Feel Wonderful (2012)White Afro (2019) Pelourinho, They Don’t Really Care About Us (2019)King of Sanwi (2020)   Mahogany Too (2018)Intermittent Delight (2007)Reluctantly Queer (2016) 7:30pm: ROGER BEEBE - FILMS FOR 1-8 PROJECTORSZoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse8:30pm: CLOSING PARTYZoetropolis Cinema Stillhous Program 1 https://gleaners.site/Program-1 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:38:42 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/Program-1 Program 1            Thursday, September 22, 6:30 PMWeis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Art Center, Franklin & Marshall College OPENING FEATURE Pink Flamingos 1972, John Waters, United States, 93 minutes (DCP)  An outrageous matriarch and her bizarre family are challenged by an equally freaky couple for the title of "Filthiest Person Alive.” In the year of the film’s 50th anniversary, the festival presents a screening of a new 4K digital restoration that was supervised and approved by John Waters. Program 2 https://gleaners.site/Program-2 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:01:33 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/Program-2 Program 2            Thursday, September 22, 8:30 PM  to Saturday, September 24, 5:30pm WVAC Galleries, Winter Visual Art Center, Franklin & Marshall College INSTALLATIONS Works by Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Africanus OkokonThe Labyrinth 1.02017, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, United States, 6 minutes (video loop)TNM_ [The Brad Johnson Tape] 2016 - 2018, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, United States (Kiwi shoe polish, leather boots, leather dye, steel Stand) Give the picture 2022, Africanus Okokon, United States, 3 minutes (video loop) Program 3 https://gleaners.site/Program-3 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 19:04:08 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/Program-3 Program 3            Friday, September 23, 10:30 AMWeis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Art Center, Franklin & Marshall College JACK SMITH I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo 1967, United States, 28 minutes (16mm, Sound on CD) Shot mainly during the late 1960s and edited a decade or more later, I was a Male Yvonne De Carlo is one of several films, slide shows, and live performance that feature(d) the filmmaker as a mock celebrity. Flaming Creatures1962, United States, 45 minutes (DCP) Subject of a US Supreme Court case on obscenity and repeatedly banned and seized, this notorious landmark of underground cinema is a raucous celebration of queer desire, gender nonconformity, and classical Hollywood B-movies. While Flaming Creatures embraces fluidity in lieu of a coherent narrative, Jack Smith described his film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Program 4 https://gleaners.site/Program-4 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 19:29:18 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/Program-4 Program 4            Friday, September 23, 1:00 PMZoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse CONTEMPORARY SHORTS Instructions on How to Make A Film 2018, Nazli Dinçel, United States, 13 minutes (digital file) Shot at the Film Farm in Mt. Forest, this comedy is a quest about performance, educational voiceover, analogue filmmaking, ASCII, language, ethics of ethnography and narrative storytelling under a metaphor of instructions to farm land. Text by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Wikihow/shoot-film. Civil War Surveillance Poem (Part 1)2020, Mitch McCabe, United States, 15 minutes (digital file)The first chapter of a five-part feature-length, speculative nonfiction film contemplating a new American civil war via call-in radio, twenty years of verité footage from the filmmaker's archive, and robots.Baltimore2021, Margaret Rorison, United States, 22 minutes (digital file)Catalogs the landscapes and architecture of the filmmaker’s hometown of Baltimore City. Personal and observational, this 16mm film, shot from 2016 to 2018, explores exterior spaces, material and psychic fragments of historic buildings, many of which have been demolished or renovated since the completion of the film. Malembe2020, Luis Arnías, Venezuela/United States, 13 minutes (digital file)Through its rhythmic montage and mix of observational and surreal imagery, Malembe forges oblique linkages between the United States and Venezuela, conveying the strange dissociation of being uprooted, of living between places.Little Sky2021, Jess X. Snow, Canada/United States, 14 minutes (digital file)Follows the journey of Sky, a Chinese American pop star who returns to the city they were raised in to find their estranged immigrant father. Haunted by their childhood memories, Sky risks their non-binary identity to end the cycle of violence in their family. Program 5 https://gleaners.site/Program-5 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 20:10:53 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/Program-5 Program 5            Friday, September 23, 3:30 PMWeis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Art Center, Franklin & Marshall College MORGAN QUAINTANCE Missing Time2019, United Kingdom, 15 minutes (DCP) Through a focus on alien abduction, cold war history, and Britain’s colonial history, Missing Time is a film that considers the relation between amnesia, concealed histories, state secrecy and the constitution of the self. A Human Certainty2021, United Kingdom, 21 minutes (DCP)The inevitability of separation, loss and death are explored through an introspective written monologue and a selection of stills, moving images and written text.South2020, United Kingdom, 28 minutes (DCP)Taking two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side as a point of departure, ‘South’ presents an expressionistic investigation of the power of individual and collective voice. Interlinked with Morgan Quaintance’s own biography (time spent living in both London and Chicago), the film also considers questions of mortality and the will to transcend a world typified by concrete relations. Program 6 https://gleaners.site/Program-6 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 20:29:09 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/Program-6 Program 6            Friday, September 23, 7:30 PMBarshinger Center for the Musical Arts, Franklin & Marshall College FALSE NEGATIVE - AN EVENING WITH JOHN WATERS False Negative is the next chapter in Waters' rapid-fire one-man spoken word Vaudevillean act, This Filthy World, celebrating the film career and joyously appalling taste of the man William Burroughs once called "The Pope of Trash.” In this live performance, the legend himself talks about his early negative artistic influences, including his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, the extremes of the art world, Catholicism, sexual deviancy and a love of reading. Program 7 https://gleaners.site/Program-7 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 20:49:20 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/Program-7 Program 7           Saturday, September 24, 10:30 AMWeis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Art Center, Franklin & Marshall College LOCAL SHORTS I Am Somebody1970, Madeline Anderson, United States, 30 minutes (DCP) Madeline Anderson, Lancaster-born filmmaker and McCaskey High School graduate, is the first Black woman to produce and direct a televised documentary film. I Am Somebody follows 400 Black female hospital workers who went on strike to demand a fair wage in Charleston, South Carolina. The film is a crucial and complex document of the struggle for economic justice, the civil rights movement, and Black feminism. The Sticklet Weaver2021, James Hollenbaugh, United States, 7 minutes (DCP)Created by Lancaster-based filmmaker, James Hollenbaugh, The Sticklet Weaver is a documentary portrait of Brent Brown, a Reading-based self-taught artist with lifelong mental health challenges. Intuitive and deeply talented, in recent years he has started building complex, highly fanciful "puppets" constructed from dozens of cardboard elements with fully moveable joints.New Gleaners DocumentariesThe premiere of the films created during the New Gleaners Documentary Workshop that took place in the summer of 2022. Representing a core initiative of the Gleaners Film Festival, the New Gleaners Documentary Workshop seeks to foster community-based filmmaking and film appreciation in the city of Lancaster. This workshop emerges as a collaboration between the students in the School District of Lancaster and members of the Film and Media program at Franklin & Marshall College. Program 8 https://gleaners.site/Program-8 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:25:25 +0000 Gleaners Film Festival https://gleaners.site/Program-8 Program 8           Saturday, September 24, 1:00 PMWeis/Laiks Cinema, Winter Visual Art Center, Franklin & Marshall College CITY PORTRAITS H-E-L-L-O2014, Cauleen Smith, United States, 11 minutes (DCP) Greetings to mankind! The five-note sequence of Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is performed outdoors by New Orleans musicians at sites in their city loaded with memories. The playful interpretations of this iconic motif are a testament to the city’s free spirit, despite its unstable present and uncertain future. Reading 1974: Portrait of a City1975, Gary Adelstein, Costa Mantis, Jerry Orr, United States, 56 minutes (DCP)A documentary, in the city symphony tradition, that captures the essence of Reading, PA in 1974 at the height of the urban renewal era, when the centers of many mid-sized American cities were gutted and redesigned to make way for the "the future."