1992, 25TH ANNUAL HUMBOLDT INT’L FILM FESTIVAL
Judges
Peter Sempel – “I started making films (1981) because of the music I love … (Especially classic Neubauten & Cave) and dance. It’s just fascinating to make ideas & pictures in one’s head visible on a big screen”
Dean Snider – RULE #1: Your mother didn’t make you a luck-up, YOU DID! Stop blaming her!
RULE# 2: All other events are built on this concept!
Axiom A.: Be kind to your art. It Is your friend, sometimes your only friend. Like a friend even more than a lover, be faithful to your art. You may have a girl friend who doesn’t care how drunk you get and will still drag what-there-ls-left-of-you home, even when a showdown comes. Not the little showdowns: like why you couldn’t go to her office party, because you had this new film, and anyway you wouldn’t like the people there (they WORK for a living); NO, I mean the BIG showdown, where the rubber meets the road. THEN, when you’re In WAY over your head with the MAN, BIG MR. D., the old dude with the scythe; you’ll find out what sustains you. ART will save you, you THINK, as you fall Into a serious state of unconsciousness; not the kind, where you wake up In a pool of puke on the hall carpet with rug burns on your Ups. No, I mean the kind of serious unconsciousness where the only thing different between you and gravity is that gravity doesn’t pee in its pants. You thought your art would save you.Was the satori revealed In your last film going to get the landlord to unlock your apartment door. Or was ii your standing in the Art Community that was going to get you on your feet and off to the Emergency Room. You may be driven by your art, but right now, what you need Is an ambulance. II Isn’t art, but your girlfriend (lover, mate. etc.) that will save you In the end. This is not the end that has !lash forwards to the scene of your lst Farewell-party-furneral .The old guys from the Musicians Union, with while hats and hangovers, aren’t playing, NOW! This is not the happy ending of some movie. This is the REAL IT, the it where even Charles Bukowski is so scared he calls for his mommy, knowing his art isn’t going to save him. Your girlfriend will save you. She will find you in you. even though you are only able to think about bananas, and wishing that the next time you re-surface from unconsciousness, you might be able to see something besides your nose flattening; scabs already starting to form from 48 hours of uninterrupted contact with the bedroom floor. She will call for the brightly Iii ride to the hospital. She’ll be standing there in Intensive Care the next day when you find yourself lying on a starched white bed. tubes stuck into you everywhere, including your dick. She will save you, and you will think what a terrific movie this will make!
FINAL PARADYGM: Don’t blame Mom. she has already been someone’s savior
FILM FESTIVAL FINALIST
I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up Award
The Square Root of Negative Three by Francois Miron
16mm Experimental 7min
Best Narrative
What Have We Done by Anthony E. Nicholas
16mm Narrative 30min
Maya Deren Award
Melissa’s Lullaby by Karry R. Fefer
16mm Experimental 12min30sec
Jonas Mekas Award
Paradise Is by Tony Pemberton
16mm Experimental 18min30sec
Alpha Cine Award
A Psychopath’s Impressions by Yun-Ning Huang
16mm Narrative 9min
Truth Award
he Apocryphal History of Meat Part IV: Brotherhood of Meat by Shane McNeil
16mm Other 29min
Best Experimental
Great Things Are Happening by Kevin Cunningham
16mm Experimental 3min
Best Documentary
The Cleansing Machine by Patricia Baum
16mm Documentary 18Min
Kenneth Anger Award
The Wild Winds by Steve Simpson
Super8 Narrative 8min30sec
Best Animation
Oga The Chameleon by Michael W. Johnson
16mm Animation 5 Min
Prurient Interest Award
A Hero Lost in the Red Wood by Sebastian Dellers
35mm Experimental/Animation 5min
Pavlov’s Dog Award
Victor by James Mangold
35mm Experimental/Narrative 28min
Tiffen Filter Awards
Paradise Is by Tony Pemberton
The House of Science: Museum of False Facts by Lynne Sachs
Hey Come Back Here by Matthew Ross
Honorable Mentions
Mother Tongue by Irina Leimbacher
Oral Hygiene by David Fain
Earl by Matthew Buzzell