IOWA CITY INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

2014 Festival Program Schedule

Grab a seat at the 12th annual Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival and explore the boundaries of documentary and non-fiction filmmaking. IC DOCS is proud to bring award-winning filmmakers John Gianvito and Dani Leventhal to the festival as 2014 jurors. Full festival schedule below.

For more details, visit http://icdocs.wordpress.com/.

All IC DOCS festival screenings are free and open to the public.

THURSDAY, APRIL 17th at 7:30pm

Competitive Show #1
Runtime: 1 hr 17 min
Program by: Christian Carlstrom and Jason Livingston

The first of five competitive shows. Jurors John Gianvito and Dani Leventhal will be in attendance. Anna Swanson, local filmmaker and director of rights of passage, will also be in attendance. 

1. Handful of Dust
(USA, 2013, 8 min 46 sec)
Hope Tucker

2. Frontier Journals 01: Mythologies of the Conquerors
(USA, 2013, 7 min 44 sec)
Georg Koszulinski

3. rights of passage
(USA, 2014, 29 min 6 sec)
Anna Swanson

4. Blunt Force Trauma
(USA, 2013, 6 min 42 sec)
Shayna Connelly

5. Let Us Persevere
(France, 2013, 20 min)
Ben Russell

6. Ten Notes On a Summer Day
(USA, 2012, 4 min 30 sec)

THURSDAY, APRIL 17th at 9:00pm

IC DOGES and twohundredfiftysixcolors
Runtime: 1 hr 57 min

IC DOGES is a presentation of original nonfiction memes. An IC DOGES awards ceremony will follow. After IC DOGES there will be a screening of twohundredfiftysixcolors (1 hr 37 min), the universe's first GIF compilation film.

twohundredfiftysixcolors
USA, 2013, 1 hr 37 min, silent
Eric Fleischauer & Jason Lazarus, with Curatorial Assistant Theodore Darst

Crafted from over 3,000 animated GIFS, twohundredfiftysixcolors is an expansive and revealing portrait of what has become a zeitgeist medium. Once used primarily as an Internet page signpost, the file type has evolved into a nimble and ubiquitous tool for pop-cultural memes, self-expression, and artistic gestures. The film is a curated archive that functions as a historical document charting the GIF's evolution, its connections to the early cinema, and its contemporary cultural and aesthetic possibilities.

THURSDAY, APRIL 17th at 11:00pm

Bijou Late Night Screening: American Movie

FRIDAY, APRIL 18th at 7:00pm

Juror Show: John Gianvito
Runtime: 1 hr 20 min

Filmmaker, curator, and teacher (and IC DOCS juror) John Gianvito in conversation with Sarah Kanouse, artist and videomaker in Intermedia, will discuss his past and recent work exploring ideas around the relationship of film, form, and politics. A self-described "accidental documentarian," Gianvito will screen excerpts from works made over the past decade including parts of his current long-form documentary essay, For example, The Philippines.
Image: See Attached File "ICDOCS Juror Gianvito"

FRIDAY, APRIL 18th at 9:00pm

Competitive Show #2
Runtime:  1 hr 30 min
Program by: Kristine Moffitt, Brad Maxwell, Ruokun Yi

1. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
(Cuba, 2013, 22 min.)
Pilar Álvarez García 

2. Richard Prince
(USA, 2012, 6 min.)
Nick Twemlow

3. RECKONING 3
(USA, 2014, 11 min.)
Kent Lambert 

4. Frontier Journals 03: Aztec Baldwin Collage
(USA, 2014, 9 min.)
Georg Koszulinski

5. Demeter's Spring
Daphna Mero
(USA, 2012, 20 min.)

6. Historia
Roger Beebe
(USA, 2014, 21 min.)

FRIDAY, APRIL 18th at 11:00PM

Bijou Late Night Screening: The Great Flood

SATURDAY, APRIL 19th at 2:00pm

Competitive Show #3
Runtime: 1 hr 25 min
Program by: Tyler Culver, Alyssa Stormes

1. Broken Tongue
(USA, 2013, 3 min.)
Monica Saviron

2. Lovesong
(USA, 2014, 6 min.)
Robert Todd

3. Rice For Sale
(USA, 2013, 32 min.)
Brendan and Jeremy Smyth

4. Tacoma
(USA, 2013, 7 min.)
Courtney Krantz

5. Burn Out the Day
(USA, 2013, 4 min.)
Sasha Waters Freyer

6. In Common
(USA, 2014, 19 min.)
Adele Horne

7. Square Dance
(USA, 2013, 9 min.)
Silvia das Fadeas

8. Short
(USA, 2013, 6 min.)
Robert Todd

SATURDAY, APRIL 19th at  4:00pm

Juror Show: A Conversation with Dani Leventhal
Runtime:  1 hr 20 min

Filmmaker Dani Leventhal with screen 3 videos and show drawings that are in relationship with them.

1. Platonic
(2013, 19 min.)

In Dani Leventhal's  Platonic, geometric spectors twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie father for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher’s metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object. - Anneka Harre

2. Sister City  
(2013, 4 min.)

Sister City channels moments of paradoxical experience--of being a superhero or being for sale--into reverberant conduits, articulating natures divided by panes of glass or suspended in watery solitudes. Each shift begets a kind of origin story: one encounter traces the specific azure of a James Turrell installation to a pet shop jellyfish, in another, a modern-day putto purifies a horrific tale by blowing bubbles in a tub. Sister City, like water, seeks its own level; cresting and displacing continuous bursts of life spiritualized, succulent, and ultimately alone.  – Deirdre Thompson

3. Nikole 
(2014, 3 min.)

A 27 second clip of Nikole dancing in drag stretched out to 3 minutes.

SATURDAY, APRIL 19th at 7:00pm

Competitive Show #4
Runtime: 1 hr 8 min
Program by: Bradley Calvin, Shawn Paarmann, and Yujia Ren

1. Mei
(USA, 2013, 5 min.)
Margaret To

2. Jessy
(Brazil, 2013, 15 min.)
Paula Lice, Rodrigo Luna, Ronei Jorge

3. Sun Song (Silent)
Joel Wanek
(USA, 2014, 15 min.)

4. I Run Slow
(USA, 2014, 7 min.)
Naomi Levine

5. Almut
(Germany, 2013, 10 min.)
Zoe Aiano, Come Ledesert, and Leyla Hoppe

6. Lie Back and Enjoy It: A Film About JoAnn
(USA, 2014. 9 min.)
Jessica Bardsley

7. Daybreak/L'Aube
(Canada, 2013, 7 min.)
George Ungar

SATURDAY, APRIL 19th at 9:00pm

Competitive Show #5
Runtime: 1 hr 24 min
Program by: Lauren Drennan, Jake Nolan, Zoe Slutzky

1. and none better than an old man
(USA, 2013, 12 min.)
Josh Weissbach

2. Ghostly Pulsations
(Mexico, 2014, 5 min.)
Adriana Trujillo and José Inerzia

3. Bright Flower
(Brazil, 2013, 28 min.)
Jade Rainho

4.Origins
(USA, 2013, 18 min.)
Jeffrey P. Palmer

5. Living Fossil
(USA, 2014, 2 min.)
Sean Hanley

6. Speculum
(Iceland, 2013, 17 min.)
Richard Ashrowan

SATURDAY, APRIL 19th at 10:30pm

Festival Awards Announced

SATURDAY, APRIL 19th at 11:00pm

Bijou Late Night Screening: 12 O' CLOCK BOYS
Lofty Nathan
(USA, 2013, 76 min.)