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7th Annual Director's Cuts Film Festival
Presented by the MVPA and Universal Operations Group
Friday, January 7, 2005
Tickets Now Available

The MVPA is proud to announce the line-up of short films by some of today’s leading music video directors. There is no better place to check out the talent and narrative style that exists at this level of experience and innovation.

The Sailor’s Girl (dir. Brett Simon / @ Radical Media) 13 min.
A ragged girl sits in a beat up car. Men enter and hand her money. This story is not what it first appears to be; neither are the people in it.
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough. - Mark Twain

Nouveau Riche #11 (dir. Saar Klein / Independent Media) 1.5 min.
Three East Indian musicians are employed for a very unusual job. They are not very happy about it.
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn’t have to do them. – Holt’s Law

CS Lewis Jr, Patriotic Country Singer (dir. Bob Odenkirk / Bob Industries) 4 min.
CS Lewis Jr. is the most patriotic country singer in America, according to Patriotic Country Singers Magazine. If you don’t like it, go back to Russia!
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. – George Bernard Shaw

Nobody Knows Me (dir. Dustin Robertson / AvidDiva) 9 min.
A complete and epic portrait of the very public and constantly evolving images of Madonna - including cuts from every ground-breaking video - documenting her eye for directorial talent and lust for innovation.
I’ve had so many lives since I was a child…. - Madonna

Pirates & Emperors (dir. Eric Henry / Bob Industries) 4 min.
A wry political cartoon about bullies big and small.
Come you masters of war / You that build all the guns / You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs / You that hide behind walls / You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know / I can see through your masks - Bob Dylan

Meet Your Maker (dir. Shaun Peterson / RW Media) 5.5 min.
The desire to bag a 14 point buck is topped only by the compulsion to shoot at your friends. You may not say “14 point buck” a lot now, but soon you will find yourself using it often.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.- P.G. Wodehouse

Dropped From Label (dir. George Meeker / Omaha Pictures) 11 min.
A documentary detailing the often confusing process of becoming a white hip-hop star. Or not becoming one, as it turns out.
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow / This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo… - Eminem

Dave Matthews “Gravedigger” (dir. Mark Pellington / Merge @ Crossroads) 6 min.
A performance-free rendering utilizing the talents of classically trained actors and the austere beauty of the Montana landscape to convey emotional stories of life and death.
Gravedigger, when you dig my grave / Could you make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain… - Dave Matthews

Spam-Ku (dir. Steven Tsuchida / Oil Factory Inc.) 5 min.
Answering that age old question: what happens when you win a haiku contest about SPAM?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. – Joseph Heller

Terrible Week (dir. Molly and Mariah / @ Radical Media) 1.5 min.
One doesn’t see enough stop-motion animation these days, and one can never see enough birds feasting on yearbooks.
Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds. - Dale Carnegie

The Moment (dir. Doug Aitken / Oil Factory Inc.) 5 min.
Poetic and visceral, a simultaneously synchronized and organic take on a universal moment.
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. – Gail Sheehy

The Willowz “I Wonder” (dir. Michel Gondry / Partizan) 3.5 min.
A slice of life, if your slice is that you’re a drifter and your life is homemade vehicles.
I’m laughing but you’re laughing at me, and I think “what could this be”, and I wonder…
- The Willowz

Lil Chuck 2: Monkey Hustle (dir. Charles Jensen / Anonymous Content) 6 min.
Everyone’s favorite degenerate monkey is back for more dirty fun, and this time he’s brought along a friend. An underage friend.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. – Thomas Edison

Girls Guitar Club (dir. Ruben Fleischer / Smuggler) 13 min.
Two girls meet boy, boy tells girls they need a demo, two girls make demo, boy is disinterested in said demo, two girls write angry song about boy. A tale as old as time.
We’re gonna work it out; we’re learning bar chords… - Girls Guitar Club

Jay-Z “99 Problems” (dir. Mark Romanek / Anonymous Content) 5.5 min.
An artistic cinematic exploration of an artist, filmed in and around Brooklyn’s Marcy projects; human, raw, visually poetic.
I don't know what you take me as, or understand the intelligence that Jay-Z has… - Jay-Z