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Show Short Film Progresn Set st Stor flail c TMo la av.ii4 ........ 4 A benefit program of selected experimental short films made by Moab filmmaker Rodger Dar-bonne Dar-bonne will be presented by the Southeastern Utah Fine Arts Guild Mar. 15 in Star Hall at 2:00 p.m. A donation of $1.00 per person is requested from the public, although admission ad-mission is free to Guild members. A narrative preview written by Mr. Darbonne describing each film scheduled to be shown follows: American Can camera y minutes) The title doesn t make any narrative sense; It's just a collection of sounds I like. It's like the name of a town on a sign along the highway high-way that let's you know when you get there. The film touches touch-es upon the clash of values In America in 1970, and cautions cau-tions against the tendency to straighten everything out Immediately. Im-mediately. Freedom Is . . (1 minute) They wanted 16mm films for the "Freedom Is . . ." One Minute Film Competition at the 1971 Chicago International Internation-al Film Festival. I didn't have a 16mm camera so I made a 16mm film with an 8mm camera. cam-era. That seemed like freedom free-dom to me. But the Industry had never done such a thing and the film came back split ..down the middle. Another laboratory la-boratory agreed to try something some-thing different and we got a 16mm film anyway. Freedom always takes more work than you'd think. Film Clips (2.5 minutes) Last fall I joined Eric and Lucia In Monument Valley where he was helping Clint Eastwood film climbing sequences se-quences for "The Elger Sanction". Sanc-tion". This raw roll of film Is not a movie, just unedited "snapshots" of the activities atop one of the pinnacles. The helicopter nearly blew me off. Knock Knock (9 minutes) I had seen too many foreign movies and though I could do one. I didn't have sound so I used low-budget English subtitles, sub-titles, which seemed better than an unintelligible language lang-uage anyway. This Is the first of a series of films that opened open-ed my interest In filmmaking. My ambitions were embaxas-slng embaxas-slng so I didn't ask anybody to help. The movies asks the question, "Does learning to carry your own cross eliminate elimi-nate the chance of other people's peo-ple's nails hanging you up?" An Answer to the Lady Or The Tiger (About 10 minutes If the splices hold up) When I wash teaching English in 1960, this film was made as a high school class project. I consider It my first film and we did it with a twenty dollar 8mm camera and a budget of $25. This was at a Chlcano ghetto school and all the kids loved it. It was the second student film in Los Angeles school history. Butterfly Boy (8 minutes) After "Knock Knock", Ineed-ed Ineed-ed to do something lighter. This is about as 11 u ( can get. Cesar Besm iw ! makes his acting !? I ' . being such a good dog by & ing out of the way l.: fUmed "Knock Knock" J I"'. ' filmmaking ambitions J!' y -still embarrassing but J? cents I was hooked. I, ' Regltel Training tt lock's (15 minutes) ThUm '' be a dud on the progra t is a training fUm to teachi partment store clerks thing about a computers '.V cash register. I wanted tot -a training film without Z Y' usual narration that puts w I i to sleep. I succeeded 5! film will probably pm " -sleep without the narrstfcr But it has a few interests visual moments. As a $15 '! mm, it would have been let rifle, but I got as near ai l K ' could to that Ideal ag . would allow. An lmpossftla t task. Now, I wait mtu n, . budget Is adequate before! '" film. 1 p FUm Clips H (10 mtnuta) p Unedited footage with son . pretty pictures from lyj fall's Miss Indian Utah I geant at Sundance near Prtno p Oh, look! It's Robert J '; ford! No sound but who else r do you know with Redfordij V his films? I -j Albino (18 minutes) This h I--: a cinematic testament to the I.' work of Fritz Perls. The I sound track is the real storj, I : What you see Is the projeo! I-tions I-tions of a Gestalt Therajf 0 patient who is doing "hot. I seat work". His fragmelfej I city life turns Into a strafe I prehistoric aboriginal rfcstf I passage until he gets k allto- I gether into a whole person. I allty again and his life Is re- I focused into softer transfer- I mations. There's a flaalre- I minder that projections at I be painfuL I A Sunday on Your Kaea I (8 minutes) This is about tie I Chalk-In, a street palifc$ I activity developed by the Sbv I dk Watts Workshop, where I , art reclaims its original role I as an ant idote to a depressln I environment. This wod tie I Canon Award Gold Medil tt I the 1974 Atlanta LTternaitoal I ' Film Festival. IF the fUm Is finished, I -will also show some scenes I from a new movie to be re- j-leased j-leased this spring. I did Dot I make this film, butactedkt I If the film is not arable I the t tme of the showing, I aa 1 sorry to mislead you l the 1 time this program was prepared. pre-pared. " |