Way back in late September, Duke students Stephanie Korszen ’10 and Nick Wiesner ’11 participated in Attack of the 50 ft. Reels, a film competition hosted by Flickr of Chapel Hill. On that rainy Saturday, the duo, along with the other event participants, was given a Super 8 camera and the goal of making an original film by 7PM that night. The budding filmmakers were given no guidelines, only that the theme of their film was “excess”.
Naturally, then, Korszen and Wiesner took to the Blue Zone to capture the homecoming celebration before the Duke-NC Central game. In a recent Herald-Sun article, Korszen related that tailgate “embodied excess” in many ways. The screening carries added excitement for the two as it will be the first time viewing the work in its full, final form.
Their film, along with seven others, will screen tonight at 8 PM at Cat’s Cradle in Carborro. Tailgate attire encouraged.
Sleep Dealer, which won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, will screen tonight in Griffith theater at 7 p.m. Part of the Latin American Film Festival of North Carolina, the science fiction film takes place in a near-future Mexico where people plug in to the Web to work in the US without crossing the border. Director Alex Rivera will hold a Q&A after the screening.
A few weeks ago, Naureen Khan reported on a feature-length film being produced by a rag-tag band of Duke students, mostly juniors and seniors. What is possibly the first-ever student-produced feature from Duke has since been given a firm title: Clearing Waters. The film has been given a “release date” (they’re showing it publicly at Duke) of April 11, and with that comes a trailer. Check it out here.
You should be really excited right now because Troika 2009 starts today. What looks like the best iteration of the Troika Music Festival tonight kicks off tonight at 7 p.m. at Durham Central Park with the Beast and Megafaun. We previewed some of the shows you should definitely check out (the aforementioned one among them) in today’s recess. You can check it out here:
Also noteworthy (I could go on about all the shows–Pipe!–but Trekky has a good guide here) is the Rock Paper Scissors art/music event Saturday afternoon. If nothing else, you can be a humanitarian and buy some of Red Collar drummer Jonathan Truesdale photos to help him work out some medical bills caused by CMJ (see the story for clarification).
See you at Troika.
[Photo of Bowerbirds in Paris by Oliver Peel. Courtesy Flickr.]
