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7:30pm

No Paradise 2:05:00 |16:9 | Stereo | Argentina

How do we represent our memories?

"No Paradise" invites viewers to immerse themselves in an oppressive trip. Sounds are suspended in an atmosphere outside of time where it is not possible to establish if events have occurred or are about to happen, if we walk a path imagined or just about a vague attempt to recover what is gone. The artist’s own field recordings have been re-elaborated by the sound artist Thierry Massard for the construction of the soundtrack.

Laura Focarazzo is a video artist and independent curator. She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her works include experimental films and videos as well as curatorial works. Graduated in Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires in 1991, Laura Focarazzo also completed film courses and workshops with prestigious filmmakers of the local and international scene during last years. She is currently studying a Master Degree in art curatorship. https://vimeo.com/laurafocarazzo

BELONG 7:21:00 | Digital |Stereo | United States

What separates feral children from humans is that they don't belong to anything. Neither human nor animal.

Stephanie Hutin is a Franco-American artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles by way of Miami, Florida. Hutin focuses on the performative aspects of animation, which often lead to community-based happenings, interventions, comedy, films, videos, curatorial projects, writings, and lectures, meant to challenge the way frame by frame works are read. Her work has been shown in galleries and film festivals internationally, notably at the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, The Echo Park Film Center, The Wexner Center, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. belongnowhere.com, stephaniehutin.com

The Kingsleys 12:25:00 | Digital | Stereo | United States

A con artist disguised as door-to-door salesman confronts his most challenging client.

Sofia Caetano was born in 1987, in Ponta Delgada – in the Portuguese paradisiac Azores islands. After getting her BFA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, Sofia studied Directing at RESTART and Photography at the Portuguese Institute of Photography. Caetano interned as a photojournalist at VISÃO magazine before moving to the U.S.A., to get her MFA in Media Art from Emerson College. Sofia is currently writing her first feature film, The Happiest Man, and teaching Film production at Emerson College. Caetano is the co-founder of The Spectacular House, a Media Art production house based in Boston.

Tower 4:42:00 | Digital | Stereo | Israel

A female cellist walks the labyrinth structure of a filthy bus station, while time, space and sound collapse, and recreate new meanings.

Avigail Gutfeld is an Israeli Brooklyn-based artist, production designer, cellist, and actress. She graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the department of General and Comparative Literature and participated in the Tel Aviv University Honor Roll Program in Design for Stage, Film, and TV. Avigail's works deal with the individual's social, historical and physical memories, as well as with trauma, and the body as a traumatic entity.

Abandoned Generations 10:14:00 |16mm | Stereo | United States

A portrait of farmland in the Pacific Northwest, "Abandoned Generations" explores relationships with land and time in different generations. Told through the perspective of a female farmer in the 1940s, the film questions the distance that modern society has from the earth and how that relationship informs daily life.

Linda Fenstermaker is an experimental filmmaker, whose work uses the female form to address issues of contemporary representation. She is interested in the intersections of landscape and film, shooting primarily on 16mm and Super 8mm film formats. She lives in Seattle, Washington, where she works on a farm and continues her filmmaking.

Tippi at Swin Lake 2:33:00 | Digital | Stereo | United States

An experiment in the male gaze and an examination of the casting couch with Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock.

Alison Folland is a performer and filmmaker based in Cambridge, MA. As an actress she has played leading and featured roles in over a dozen films, working with directors such as Gus Van Sant, Barbet Schroeder, and David O. Russell.

Daphna Mero is a film director, choreographer and a professional dancer who splits her time between New York and Jerusalem. She holds a B.Dance from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, a film diploma from Minshar for Art, Tel-Aviv and MFA in Film/Video from MassArt, Boston.

Jenny Plante is a filmmaker based out of Rhode Island. She has a BA in film production from Keene State College and an MFA in film/video production from Massachusetts College of Art. Jenny has exhibited her work at numerous film festivals. Her work is strongly influenced by pop culture and film history. www.jennyplante.com

I Killed Another Day 2:31:00 | Digital | Stereo | United States

Video for sound artist Jason Lescalleet Videography, editing, concept, directing, dance by Heidi Alasuvanto.

A Finnish dance artist Heidi Alasuvanto uses video to document impulse driven and conceptual improvised human movement. In addition to herself, subjects appearing in her works are dancers and family members. She is interested in the idea of people using movement as a tool to observe the conditioning of their body and mind through the practice of improvised movement. Currently Heidi is based in Connecticut, where she is working on opening an artist residency for dancers.

Axelle 6:48:00 | Digital | Stereo |Belgium

Axelle, reclusive and determined, finds in Clémence a great support in life. When she learns about Clémence moving abroad, Axelle cannot handle it.

Sara Dufossé and Nikita Trocki started the ‘Institut des Arts de Diffusion’ (belgium film school) in 2011 in order to learn filmmaking. During their first year of a film making master degree, they wrote and directed the short film Axelle shot in Mons (Belgium) in November 2014.

Burying Mom 5:17:00 | Digital | Stereo | United States

Boys bury Mom at the beach.

Amanda Wild is a photographer who studied art in Washington, DC and anthropology in Boston, MA. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and works in a hospital in Boston. Her work is concerned with documenting and expressing contemporary and ordinary life and she hopes that people will enjoy it.

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Sleeper 2:36:00 | Digital | Stereo | United States

A meditation on (day) dreaming.

Hannah Engelson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and media artist whose work focuses on character-driven narratives using an observational shooting style. She experiments with techniques such as stop-motion animation and time lapse, and documents sleep in order to explore our shared vulnerability and the inward imaginative life.

Tierra Caliente (Hot Lands) 21:44:00 Digital | Stereo | Colombia

As the mercury rises, a secret turns a trip to the Tierra Caliente into a weekend that Veronica, Lucia and their boyfriends will never forget.

Alvaro, a Sydney Film School graduate, has worked in drama, documentary and music videos. His work has screened and received awards at international festivals, and in six occasions he's been invited to screen a selection of his works at various Colombian cities.

Carnivals 4:04:00 | 16mm | Stereo | United States

A lyrical postcard film exploring nostalgia and child-like wonder.

Brandi Diaz is a Boston-based filmmaker exploring the fragile nature of memory and time. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art & Design.

Strange Sound 5:35:00 | Animation/Film | Stereo | United States

An exploration of the concept of a woman being a dispensable sexual object. This is the third video of my Strange Sound series.

Jennifer Sharpe was born in Naples, Italy in 1967, and moved to the United States in 1970. Her ethnic heritage is both Italian and American. Her artistic background is grounded in drawing, painting, and classical music. Jennifer graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard, College, Columbia University in 1989, with a B.A. in Oriental Studies (now called East Asian Studies). In March 2014 she joined the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) as a represented member. www.odilonvert.com

Brown House Yellow Door 4:47:00 |16mm | Stereo | United States

An experimental film about the blurring of realities, time and the meaning of home movies in relation to our own perception of our experiences.

Ariana Ratner is an experimental filmmaker and artist residing in Boston, MA. Her work is centered on finding life in still objects, places, and relics of the past. When she isn't working on a new project she’s in thrift stores and antique shops collecting other people's forgotten items to give them life on film. She is also part of a performance art duo called Tiffany's House, preaching about a fantastical world of sleepovers gone horribly wrong.

Hoss 13:02:00 | Digital | Stereo | United States

When a devastating tsunami destroys the West Coast, a cowgirl roams the lawless Malibu hills looking for Justice.

Christine Boylan (writer/producer/director) Christine "Kit" Boylan's obsession with dramatic literature began during her Brooklyn childhood, which led to studying James Joyce's Ulysses in Munich, Germany, on a Fulbright grant. That same year, her one-act play "Every Third Thought" premiered at the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. Boylan has since directed workshops of new plays and readings of old plays, and was awarded the TV drama spec award at the 2004 Austin Film Festival with her SIX FEET UNDER spec script "The Strike." Christine is represented by Art/Work Entertainment and WME.

The End A Mexican Movie 2:33:00 | Digital | Stereo | Mexico

A film that reappropriates the romantic story of TWO MONKS (1934) focusing on the female protagonist that is murdered.

Annalisa D. Quagliata (b. Veracruz, Mexico 1990) is an artist and filmmaker whose films and installations focus on the human body and portraiture. In her work the body is explored as a mirror that reflects different states of being; spanning from the intimate to the social and political. She is a graduate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she majored in Film/Video and Studio for Interrelated Media. Annalisa currently resides and works in Mexico City.

10:00pm

After Party with FIME, Glam Skanks & Miss Jupiter

Yoni Fest 2016 is accepting submissions until October 31, 2016. Female and female identifying filmmakers are encouraged to submit short films up to 15 minutes in duration.

This year’s Yoni Fest will be hosted at Lot 1 Cafe in Los Angeles, CA. We will also have a live stream of the selected films for those unable to attend the event.

Register here: http://formsmarts.com/form/1rpp