JESSE AND GLENDA DREW: OPEN COUNTRY
Open Country is a journey into the roots of American Country music, reclaiming it as the creative musical expression of working people of all colors. Through archival clips, graphic artistry, contemporary interviews and performances, it re-positions Country into its rightful place as a people’s music. Featured artists include Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Hazel Dickens, Utah Phillips, Mat Callahan, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. OC fave Cindy Sawprano opens with Country tunes on her musical saw, and both directors are here in person for an energized Q&A! Moonshine and Mountain Dew at the bar. Come early for 16mm musical gems from Tex Ritter, Jim Reeves, and The Ranch Party Gang!$11
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OC: TAKE BACK THE PEOPLE’s MUSIC!
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WARM BLOOD
Red is a driven young runaway who returns to her hometown to track down her wayward father. As she wanders the streets selling stolen drugs to finance her next mission, she reflects on her early teen life through reading a journal that she finds in her old bedroom. Tom, a young drifter, possibly a figment of Red’s imagination, continues to reappear in his ’73 Duster and scoop her up after she runs away over and over again. There may be an ominous conspiracy about a chemical induced sickness that threatens their entire town. Is this a dream or is this just what a town full of corruption and dishonesty looks like when you leave and come home two years later and two years older?
Shot on 16mm film by renowned cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt (First Cow, Emma, Night Moves) and nine years in the making, WARM BLOOD weaves jagged textures of old photos, scrawled letters found in the trash, interviews done in the midnight gloom under bridges, fake news broadcasts and random audio samples together like a freaky quilt. WARM BLOOD is an inverted vision of two lost souls shot in the same town as George Lucas‘ AMERICAN GRAFFITI- A distress flare of a film shot into the night sky. a kaleidoscopic hitchhiker’s guide to the underbelly of America.
TECHNICAL INFO
Country of Origin: U.S.A
Language: English
Running Time: 86 min
Shooting Format: 16mm
Aspect Ration: 16×9
Sound: Stereo
Year of completion: 2022DIRECTOR
Rick Chamoski is a lifelong skateboarder, artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Operating as Six Stair films over the last 20 years together with his partner in arms Coan Nichols, he has created a catalog of films focusing on the shadowy corners of the world often inaccessible to the mainstream. Stories that showcase skateboarding, music, travel and art using the same DIY ethics of the subculture that raised them. Charnoski’s films have been screened in theaters, alleyways and festivals worldwide in programs as diverse as at NYC’s PS1 to the Melbourne International Film Festival and his and Nichols debut feature documentary “DEATHBOWL TO DOWNTOWN was narrated by Chloe Sevigny and their latest documentary feature “The Tony Alva Story” took home awards in several festivals including the Audience Award at the SF
Independent Film Fest. Working on his debut feature film Warm Blood over the past decade Chamoski has drawn from this documentary work and his creativity as a visual artist to weave together a narrative that is both beautiful and haunting in its rawness..
FILMOGRAPHY
Fruit of the Vine (1999)
Northwest (2003)
Tent City (2004)
Pearl Jam Vote For Change? (2005)
Blood Shed (2008)
Deathbowl to Downtown (2010)
The Tony Alva Story (2021)
Warm Blood (2022)CREDITS
Director – Rick Charnoski
Story By – Rick Charnoski, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, James Hewison
Produced By – Stephen Fitzgibbon, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, James Hewison, Coan Buddy
Nichols
Executive Producers – Matt Noonan, Sarah Noonan, Nick Batzias, Christopher Blauvelt,
Dean S Lee, Nick Stewart
Director of Photography – Christopher Blauvelt
Associate Producers – Andy Roy, Selena Spurgeon
Editor – Rick Charnoski
Composer – Josh Landau, Eliminator Records
Costume Designers – Desiree Zondag, Chelsea Green
Makeup Design – Cristina Waltz
Sound Designer – Dean S Lee
Visual Effects – Clayton Graul
Colorist – Brennan Barsell
Post Production Supervisor – Christian White
Starring – Haley Isaacson, Ryan Toothman with John Veit and Andy Roy
Production Companies – Curious Film, Six Stair Films -
FILM DIARY NYC III: COLDEST WINTER – SATELLITE SCREENING SF
Film Diary NYC is a festival for diary films, home movies, and personal documentaries. The satellite screening at ATA will feature a selection of seven short films from the New York festival, highlighting ground-breaking new works in autobiographical, personal cinema.
Program:
Even God, Liz Roberts – USA – 12’
therefore i live, Sloane Stone – USA – 10’
I am your Daughter, Jasmine Veronica – USA – 3’
Monolith, Teri Carson – Mexico / USA – 14’
Why Do Ants Go Back to Their Nest? Alex Lo – Canada – 12’
no more room in hell, Rebecca Shapass – USA – 23’
Ca(r)milla, Kearra Amaya Gopee – USA – 12’
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Even God, Liz Roberts – USA – 12’
All personal archival VHS engaging with a core question of artists in times of chaos: who owns a memory and what is its value? A record of the queer Midwest. Drugs, sex, love, friendship, and a failed Los Angeles movie deal.
therefore i live, Sloane Stone – USA – 10’
A home movie for alex amanda amina andres anya cameron danny emily fana gabi gavin max nate oliver sara sarah shane sierra sydney tim trevor tuong vincent + the rest of the water lover and old blood crews with a special shoutout to mirko
I am your Daughter, Jasmine Veronica – USA – 3’
The dynamics of a relationship as both mom/daughter and me as her caregiv er, but also how it’s complicated with me having to remind her that I am her daughter.
Monolith, Teri Carson – Mexico / USA – 14’
Part essay film, part videopoem, Monolith braids found footage, docu mentary, experimental, 3D animation and narrative filmmaking devices to explore notions of collectivity, dissent, indigenous knowledge and time as a series of folds, splits, ruptures, loops, clusters, drifts, ascents, descents, vortexes, pulses, rhythms, linkages, aberrations, burials, and unearthings.
Why Do Ants Go Back to Their Nest?, Alex Lo – Canada – 12’
An auto-fictional experimental film about the filmmaker digging a hole from Toronto to Hong Kong.
no more room in hell, Rebecca Shapass – USA – 23’
An experimental journey across the industrial backdrop of Western Penn sylvania, examining the implications zombiehood in relation to industry, late techno-capitalism, and apocalyptic realities.
Ca(r)milla, Kearra Amaya Gopee – USA – 12’
Playing with tropes such as monstros ity, Caribbean folklore and desire that have long served as sites of comfort for me and using fantasy as a meth od to stave off the anticipatory grief that now inundates the relationship between my mother and I in the wake of my grandmother’s passing in 2021. The inevitability of loss and the appli cation of a queer lens to grief and faith spill forth and alchemize the edges be tween fantasy and reality. At its core, this video is a wish.
About Film Diary NYC
Film Diary NYC is a festival for experimental non-fiction that cap tures the personal history and daily experiences of the filmmaker and the world they encounter. Through an annual festival and ongo ing special events, we provide a platform for the most heartfelt but most overlooked cinema: diary films, home movies, and personal documentary.
“A community of artists committed to cutting through the bullshit, excited to use any and all media to increase our understanding & create authentic connection.” – Julie Perini, filmmaker, educator (Portland State University)
“This festival is what real artistic community can look and feel like, and these filmmakers give me hope for the future of art on screen” – Ife Olujobi, filmmaker, writer “Very much in the spirit of the kind of film community that my father helped to foster and support.” – Sebastian Mekas
“An organization unparalleled in our current moment within the New York film world.” – Devon Narine-Singh, filmmaker, educator (RISD)
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