16. POWER TRIP

USA 2003
78 min
Georgian with English subtitles

Director/Producer/Editor: Paul Devlin Camera: Paul Devlin, Valery Odikadze

Friday 6:15 Wind's Eye Design's Rose Theatre on Taylor Street
Sunday 12:30 Wind's Eye Design's Rose Theatre on Taylor Street

An absolutely riveting documentary! Pervasive corruption, high drama, and hot tempers rule the day as an American power company tries to keep the lights on in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. In an environment of pervasive corruption, political assassination, and street rioting, the story of chaotic post-soviet transition is told through culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts.

AES Corp., the massive American "global power company," has purchased the privatized electricity distribution company in Tbilisi, capitol of former Soviet Republic of Georgia. AES manager Piers Lewis must now train the formerly communist populace that in this new world customers must pay for their electricity. The Georgians meanwhile, from the meter readers to the Energy Minister, devise ever more clever ways to steal it.

In this chaotic and dramatic environment, Lewis balances his love for the Georgian people with the hardships his company creates for them as they struggle to build a nation from the rubble of Soviet collapse.

USA, 2002
88 min.

Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Hamptons International Film Festival

Director: Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak Producer: Gunter Hanfgarn DP/Editor: Angela Christlieb, Editor: Stephen Kijak

Saturday 6: 15 pm Wind's Eye Design's Rosebud Theatre on Taylor Street
Sunday 8:45 Wind's Eye Design's Rosebud Theatre on Taylor Street

Movies can be a cure for what ails us, an elixir fueling emotions and a gigantic escape from the world. What if the movies are what ails us? In this endearing and alarming portrait of five obsessive compulsive movies goers in New York City, the envy conjured up by the devotion of these folks deep knowledge of what they want, need and have figured out exactly how to get out of life is humbling. Their satisfied quality undercuts any possibility of poking fun.

Roberta is banned for life from the Museum of Modern Art, she obsessively saves all her tickets; when an usher accidentally tears one, she pummels her. Jack goes to films eight hours a day, seven days a week. Carefully chronicling all his films, he admits, with remarkable comfort, that indeed he is overtaken by his obsession, but he enjoys it. Bill, the philosopher and writer searching for a mate on the internet knows his lack of a sex life is due to his mania. Eric will watch anything and Harvey knows the running times of all movies. The five cinemaniacs watching a rough cut of this documentary is a mind bending view into the depths of their devotion to cinema as life.

Preceded by:
ZAGATI
Brazil, 2001,
16 min
Director: Edu Felistoque, Nereu Cerdeira
If the art of cinema creates great men, then Zagati is a cinematic warrior.

FOUND ON EVEREST
USA, 2002
47 min

Director/Producer/Writer/Editor: Riley Morton

10:15 am Saturday Wind's Eye Design's Rose Theatre on Taylor Street

'Found on Everest' documents the daily struggles of the 2001 Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition as they search at 27,000 feet for clues to the mysterious disappearance of Mallory and Irvine in 1924 as they climbed towards what may have been Everest's first ascent. Looking for one thing, but finding another, the team abandoned their own summit bid to save the lives of four climbers who spent the night out at 28,500 in the second highest rescue in history.

ALONE AGAINST THE SEA-The Dangers of Solo Sailing
USA, 2003
49 min

Director: Laszlo Pal Producers: Laszlo Pal, Susan Pal, Dan McConnell Editors: Laszlo Pal, Ken Coble

More people have traveled into space than have sailed around the world alone. Alone Against the Sea documents the human drama of five sailors in life threatening situations as they battle hurricane winds, equipment failures, lack of sleep and medical emergencies on the 27,000 mile solo around the world sailing race. Modern video technology has made it possible for these intrepid folks to record their journeys. The result is an absolutely hair-raising and life affirming profile of five very brave and determined people.

Director Robert Lundahl and Native Storyteller Elaine Grinnel will attend.
USA, 2003
60 min

Director/Producer: Robert Lundahl Editors: Robert Lundahl, Chris Simon Music: Tony Saunders

Saturday 12:45 Wind's Eye Design's Rose Theatre on Taylor Street

In 1910 in the name of progress and in violation of Washington Sate law the Olympic Power and Development Company erected a dam on the Elwa River. Over the course of the ensuing years, it became clear that the river with the largest salmon run in the world had been sacrificed for hydropower development. This progress occurred at tragic expense to the Native American, Elwa Klallam people who relied upon the river for their sustenance. The film tells the story of the 90 year long struggle of the Elwa tribal community to challenge the perception of the cheap and clean power source and the eventual lobbying of congress for the removal of the dams and for restoration of the rivers ecosystem.

Elaine Grinnell is a S'Klallam tribal storyteller. The legends and stories she brings to life represent the oral history of the S'Klallam people, a history that references tribal presence over an amazing time depth on the Olympic Peninsula.

The characters, Raven, Killer Whale, Thunderbird, and many others taught the native people how to be fully human and how to to live in the lush green garden they have always called home. In a time of environmental rebalancing, these stories can help us all to feel at home in our hearts.

USA, 2003
78 min.

Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Robb Moss, Associate Producer: Linda Morgenstern, Editor: Karen Schmeer

Saturday 3:30 Wind's Eye Design's Rose Theatre on Taylor Street
Sunday 10:15 am The Rose

Working as river guides for much of the 70s, the director and his friends lived an unscheduled, communal, (often naked) outdoor life. Cutting between images of a month- long river trip filmed twenty-five years ago and the current lives of five of these former riverdogs, director Robb Moss explores bodies, time and living one's choices. The scenes of the now 50ish group watching their exuberant, naked selves prior to divorces, children, cancer, career changes, etc. are remarkably poignant.

Preceded by:
THE FIELD
USA, 2003
12 min.
Director/Writer: Mark Hager
For 12 year old Anthony the Cuban Missile Crisis effects him in ways that his friends don't understand

USA/ 2003
90 min

Director: Anne Makepeace, Producer: Anne Makepeace, Joanna Rudnick Writer: Anne Makepeace, Camera: Nancy Schreiber, Editor: Susan Fanshell, Music: Joel Goodman

Saturday 6:30 Wind's Eye Design's Rose Theatre on Taylor Street

Born a Hungarian Jew named André Friedman, Robert Capa arrived in Paris in the 30's and in an effort to get his work noticed reinvented himself as an American photographer. In his 40 short years, Robert Capa photographed five epic conflicts on four continents. His life had an unprecedented, international reach, arching from Hungary through China and Vietnam as well as America, North Africa and all of Europe. With deft editing of newsreel footage, hundreds of photographs and interviews with friends, family and colleagues, Anne Makepeace has created a riveting portrait of an accomplished artist and one of this century's greatest chroniclers of the horrors of war.

With Stewart Stern
60 min

Sunday 2:15 Wind's Eye Design's Rosebud Cinema on Taylor Street

Screenwriter Stewart Stern (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, THE UGLY AMERICAN) reminisces (in person) about growing up in New York, spending his allowance on the Broadway of the '30s and '40s when the Sheep Meadow in Central Park really had sheep and the trolleys only cost a nickel.

'Do you remember when they made the horses wear rubber horseshoes, how quiet it got in the mornings?'

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams - Screenplay by Stewart Stern

The era of Frances Farmer in Golden Boy...Eva Le Gallienne in Peter Pan...Orson Welles in Dr. Faustus...Otis Skinner in Uncle Tom's Cabin...Ethel Waters in Cabin in the Sky...Jimmy Durante in Jumbo...Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie...Laurence Olivier in Oedipus the King...Beatrice Lillie, "The Funniest Woman on Earth" ...The Civic Repertory Theatre...The Group Theatre...The Mercury...The Hippodrome...and how my father in his spats and cane showed me a dairy farm near First Avenue and walked me through the Hooverville in Central Park."

Featuring video clips from The Royal Family with Eva LeGallienne, and various songs and sketches of Beatrice Lillie performed on the Ed Sullivan show and on the first Bob Hope TV Special.

With Director Teddy Grouya
USA, 2003
70 min

Northwest Premier

Director/Writer/Producer: Teddy Grouya, Editor: Teddy Grouya, Andrea Zonder

Sunday 2:30 Wind's Eye Design's Rose Theatre on Taylor Street

In "Why Vivaldi?" Ted Grouya leads us through unusual territory. Over the past several years there has been a surge in interest in Vivaldi's music, he has been outselling all the other classical composers. Grouya visits with Vivaldi scholars and devotees from different countries, different backgrounds, with different tastes - all of whom are drawn to the music of Antonio Vivaldi.

Grouya takes us to Venice where Vivaldi, known as the red priest, lived and wrote his music. We visit the very rooms Vivaldi inhabited, the church in which his music was performed. Venice is probably the most filmed city in the world but Grouya leads us to see the place anew, his shots are selected with a cinematic eye and an unmistakable affection for his subject. We meet a baroque ensemble and time stands still as they play Vivaldi's music with the actual instruments of the time. In this lovely, compelling film you will find the answer to its title.