Saturday, April 28, 2007 @ 3:15 PM
Lunchfilms
Cinemad’s Mike Plante joins us to present a smorgasbord of shorts from his ongoing Lunchfilms project:
“By accident, I started a series of lunch shorts. James Fotopoulos and I were eating lunch two years ago and the place only took cash. Fotopoulos didn’t have any. So I made him a deal: I’ll buy the lunch and he’ll trade me a short film for the same cost. We made up rules for the film on a napkin, as a challenge and referring to subjects we talked about over lunch. Since then 25 lunch shorts have been ‘commissioned’. Here are the finished ones. Only one copy of each film exists.
While each film has its own rules and ideas, the overall metaphor is a basic one: it is very easy to help a filmmaker. Be a part of your community. Buy one lunch today.”
–Mike Plante
Featuring Lunchfilms from:
Cam Archer, Roger Beebe, James Benning, James Clauer, Jem Cohen, Ben Coonley, Bill Daniel, Kevin Everson, James Fotopoulos, Sharon Lockhart, Eileen Maxson, Carson Mell, Nina Menkes, Chris Peters, Elizabeth Skadden, Sebastian Wolf and the Zellner Brothers.
Total cost of program (plus tip): $622.71
17 films, 72 minutes
Mike Plante has published Cinemad magazine since 1998, first as six printed issues distributed worldwide, now as a website. Plante is also the Associate Director of Programming for CineVegas, was a Short Film Programmer for Sundance, and writes for other magazines including Filmmaker and Razorcake.
Cupcakes generously provided Saint Cupcake.