Short Attention Span Cinema: Doxita
Friday, August 28 - Thursday, November 19, 2009
Doxita presents short films that represent a wide variety of documentary work — domestic and foreign, serious and funny — that people don’t often get a chance to see. This fall, seven Doxita documentaries will screen as part of our ongoing “Short Attention Span Cinema” series, playing before the theater’s regular features through November:
Aug 28-Sep 10: Yellow Sticky Notes (Canada, Jeff Chiba Sterns, 6 min) Notepad animation.
Sep 11-24: Ghost in the Material (USA, Kelcey Edwards, 4 min) The art of a San Quentin inmate.
Sep 25-Oct 8: Roz (and Joshua) (USA, Charlene Music, 3 min) A homeless mom fights for her son.
Oct 9-15: Ik ben Nanda (I’m Nanda) (Netherlands, Nanda Swiersemaa, 1 min) A self-portrait by a young woman with Down Syndrome.
Oct 16-22: The Searchers (USA, David P. Earle, 3min) Phone calls from forgetful people.
Oct 23-Nov 5: Street Life (Bangladesh, Yeasin Rahman Sumon, 1 min.) A boy’s life on the streets.
Nov 6-19: Ali Shan (Canada, Yung Chang, 6 min) A dreamlike voyage to recreate a memory.