30th Anniversary Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour at Capri Theatre | Events

The 30th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour plays the the Capri Theatre in Montgomery on Saturday, April 16 at 3:00pm. Presenting the tour and introducing the film will be Festival Director John Columbus.  

Specializing in short films, the festival features entries from many countries and genres. From the winners of the festival, local venues choose a program of films to present at their venues. The Capri Theatre has chosen eleven films covering documentary,  animation, narrative and experimental. The films will be introduced by the Festival Director John Columbus who will also take questions from the audience.

Tickets for the 30th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour are available the day of the show at the Capri Theatre. Tickets are $6.00 for Capri Members and $8.00 for the general public. The 30th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour is Saturday, April 16 at 3:00pm and lasts approximately two hours.  

For more information visit the Capri Theatre web page at capritheatre.org or call the theatre at 334.262.4858. 

30th Anniversary Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour  

at Capri Theatre

The 30th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour plays the the Capri Theatre in

 Montgomery on Saturday, April 16 at 3:00pm. Presenting the tour and introducing the film will be Festival Director John Columbus.  

Burning Wigs of Sedition

Specializing in short films, the festival features entries from many countries and genres. From the winners of the festival, local venues choose a program of films to present at their

venues. The Capri Theatre has chosen eleven films covering documentary,  animation, narrative and experimental. The films will be introduced by the Festival Director John Columbus who will also take questions from the audience.

Mrs Buck In Her Prime

Tickets for the 30th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour are available the day of the show at the Capri Theatre. Tickets are $6.00 for Capri Members and $8.00 for the general public. The 30th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival Tour is Saturday, April 16 at 3:00pm and lasts approximately two hours.  

For more information visit the Capri Theatre web page at capritheatre.org or call the theatre at 334.262.4858. 

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Films Selected for the 30th Annual Black Maria Film Festival Tour
(films listed in alphabetical order, presentation order to be determined.)


THE BURNING WIGS OF SEDITION
9:22 min. (2010) by Anna Fitch, San Francisco
OPEN STYLE SELECTION
An untamed, irreverent, and fractured pseudo musical set in the belly of a square-rigger bound for a crazed bacchanal.

CARPE DIEM
5 min. (2010) by Alison Neale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This campy and biting musical satire, takes place aboard a flight from big oil crazed Houston, Texas to Ft. McMurray, the capital of the Alberta, Canada Tar Sands. The "VP" of Hexxon oil finds his world collapsing around him as the market goes into a tailspin and investors jump ship. The "VP" is confronted with a two-headed fish; evidence of big oil's environmental impact in this over-the-top hors-d'oeuvre operetta.

CHAINSAW
24 min. (2007) by Dennis Tupicoff, St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
A most unusual "mature" animation, Chainsaw starts with a pseudo 1980s safety training film with lumberjack Frank. The cheesy soundtrack and seemingly disjunctive, parallel story lines gradually congeal into a tour de force of rogue humor about a wayward wife and husband Frank's solution. Among other honors, this film and the artist were featured in a retrospective at the 2010 Animator Festival in Poznån, Poland.

EARL BUTZ
2.5 min. (2010) by Dorothea Braemer, Buffalo, NY
Filmmaker Braemer has created a high energy "Pop Art" collage which critiques the dominance of agribusiness and its impact on American family farm. The filmmaker points to Earl Butz, the 18th (1971-1976) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Richard Nixon as the culprit whose mantra to farmers was "get big or get out" which led to the decline of the family farm.

HOUSE BUNNY
1.50 min. (2010) Gina Kamentsky, Somerville, MA
A cut and paste audio assemblage by the Tape-beatles and several hundred feet of cast off movie trailers are the starting points for the lively and playful animated work House Bunny.

LA PREMIERE
20 min. (2009) by Nick and Michael Regalbuto, New York, NY
People's Choice Selection
The late 1800's were a time of invention and exploration. Science, chemistry and ingenuity were rapidly changing the way people lived. La Premiere is a recreation, a photoplay, of the race between Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Brothers. The brothers, Auguste and Louis dreamt of projecting movies large enough on a screen to be seen by groups of people all at once and Edison was out maneuvered in this recreation even as his electric light bulb was key to the Lumiere's success in this engaging re-creation narrated by actor James Earl Jones.

MY FIRST SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE
4 min. (2010) by Neil Needleman, Katonah, NY
The experimental artist writes: "My team of physicists at the Institute for the Advanced Study of the Universe was the first to make a startling discovery. What was the discovery? Watch this video and, in less than four minutes, you'll have the answer. But I warn you: it's an answer that rocks the very foundation of our universe."

MRS. BUCK IN HER PRIME
9.5 min. (2010) by James Franklin Gould, Washington, NC
JURORS' CHOICE SELECTION
Mrs. Buck in Her Prime is a tender documentary portrait of a spirited 104-year-old African American church pianist who, despite her physical frailties, carries on playing the piano with verve and vigor at services in her small hometown of Washington, North Carolina.

SPUTNIK 5
9 min. (2009) Susanna Nicchiarelli, Rome, Italy
The Soviet Union launched the satellite, Sputnik 5, on August 19, 1960. Its payload of dogs, rats, mice and insects survived the journey into space. In this droll digital animation, subtitles provide a tongue-in-cheek English translation of the animals barks and squeaks as the creatures discuss their predicament.


NEW LONDON CALLING
10 min. (2010) by Alla Kovgan, Somerville, MA
New London Calling is zestful urban dance film shot on location in New London, Connecticut. A tribe of 75 young people take over the entire city, playing their games, running, jumping, simply being exuberant. Their vibrant spirit is uplifting and brings fresh, youthful vitality to an otherwise drab city.

WASHES
8.5 min. (2010) by Norbert Shieh, Los Angeles, CA
JURORS' CITATION SELECTION
The familiar experience coalesces into a semi-abstract composition in this
enthralling, painterly work with movement as soap suds, water, wax etc.
cascade from top to bottom of the frame with shifting colors, textures and
light shot through the windshield of a vehicle passing through a car wash.

The Capri Theatre is located at 1045 E Fairview Ave in Montgomery, Alabama. The theatre is owned and operated by the non-profit Capri Community Film Society. For more information about the Capri, visit the Capri Theatre Website

The Thomas A. Edison Black Maria Film & Video Festival is a program of the Edison Media Arts Consortium, an independent non-profit organization based at New Jersey City University.

The festival was inaugurated with the endorsement of the Thomas Edison National Historic Site.