The New Stormriders:  Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Alphabetical Listing Pacific Film Archive Presents

Showtimes Fri March 12 4:30 PM / KAB312D

A Good Lie

OCD

 


In the tradition of last year’s MSG program, we ask the question: what is OCD, anyway? Obsessive compulsive disorder? Objects of conspicuous desire? Overwhelming cinematic displays? It doesn’t matter, because by the end of this program, all your demons will be exorcised and your soul will be free to roam the earth. TRT: 94 mins


A Complex Situation

A Complex Situation

USA, 1998, 5 mins, video, color, English;

Director Fae YAMAGUCHI

During a particularly stressful period of unemployment for longtime pals Frank the Horse and Bob the Bird, Bob is falsely implicated in a crime Frank committed. Live action/animation.


 

Virtually Raffi

USA, 1998, 26 mins, video, color, English;

Director Hung-Yut CHEN (in person)

Lynn is a realtor and mother of three. For the past year she has also been Raffi, a sweet, but helpless 19-year-old in love with Bonbon, a dashing young warrior in the Internet fantasy game Discworld. Meet Raffi, Lynn, her husband, children and friends as they share their views on Lynn’s extensive cyberlife and its effects.


A Good Lie

A Good Lie

USA, 1998, 17 mins, 35mm, color, English;

Director Ronald ELTANAL (in person)

To escape his own murder, an assassin confesses to his would-be killer how he is haunted by the ghost of a former victim.


 

Phone Tag

USA, 1998, 28 mins, 16mm, color, English;

Director Betty TENG

A priest, a woman and three cops share a circle of fate. When destiny calls on a discarded cell phone, each must find the courage and honesty to face it.


Earthworms

Earthworms

USA, 1997, 18 mins, video, color, English;

Director Matthew J. ABAYA (in person)

Darkly comedic madcap misadventures ensue after obsessed scientist Dr. Seeman Lee performs a series of unconventional experiments and loses his mind.


Jannette Eng and Brian Lau

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