Slide Rail Superman

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Cults, Manholes & Slide Rail Riders (Local Shorts)
Roxie Theatre Sun, Feb 17, 2013 2:46 PM
Join Indiefest for another year of local shorts extravaganza and be the first to discover Bay Area’s up-and-coming directorial talents. Dance to Tremor Low’s Kingmaker. Laugh with hilarious mockumentary Slide Rail Superman and spoof-trailer The Muppetless Movie. Reflect on the meaning of freedom with futuristic sci-fi Life Internal and question justice and fairness with grotesquely animated procedural drama Baggage Claim. Fall in love with The Beginning and My Name Is Your First Love and, finally, be warned about the risks of walking in experimental doc Manhole 452.
Cults, Manholes & Slide Rail Riders (Local Shorts)
Roxie Theatre Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:15 PM
Join Indiefest for another year of local shorts extravaganza and be the first to discover Bay Area’s up-and-coming directorial talents. Dance to Tremor Low’s Kingmaker. Laugh with hilarious mockumentary Slide Rail Superman and spoof-trailer The Muppetless Movie. Reflect on the meaning of freedom with futuristic sci-fi Life Internal and question justice and fairness with grotesquely animated procedural drama Baggage Claim. Fall in love with The Beginning and My Name Is Your First Love and, finally, be warned about the risks of walking in experimental doc Manhole 452.

Description

Slide Rail Superman is a film about a sliderailer named joe pizzetti and his sherpa*, grovesberg. in grovesberg, pizzetti has found a pioneer of pants-sliderail technology and a guy who can carry a lot of gear. in pizzetti, grovesberg has found a man who has an almost religious like devotion to his craft. together, the two men wander the city in search of great hand rails, living the sliderail dream. all is going well for the pair until a worthy opponent comes to town. after an embarrassing showdown and debilitating crash, pizzetti limps into the shadows of paranoia and urban decay until...

note to all sliderail fans: this film features a special appearance by the great mcvail, a "wooder*" and legend in the old guard of sliderail.