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Team Queen is screening at the Antimatter Underground Film Festival

11:00pm September 29 2006
Open Space Arts Centre
510 Fort St.
Victoria, Canada

“Apocalypse Oz” program

Taking the racing pulse of the music video genre, Apocalypse Oz reports back that the news of its decline is greatly
exaggerated. This program presents a phenomenal range of approaches and techniques, as well as the crank-fueled
post-punk hybrid of two cinema classics.

Team Queen
Leah Meyerhoff
video/2006/USA/3:30 Can Premiere
You are cordially invited to a gender-bending, fire-breathing, tassel-twirling, post-punk rock ’n’ roll prom!

Fermium
Nancy Mitchell
video/2006/USA/6:16 Can Premiere
The meandering hijinx of two BFFs against a bleached-out background
of postmodern ennui.

Mannequins Harlequin
Jodie Mack
video/2006/USA/2:45 Can Premiere
A stroboscopic dance party!!!

Little Birds
Yan Giroux & Mathieu Jacques
video/2006/Can/3:14 BC Premiere
Ooh, baby baby
I ain’t no little bird!
Montreal’s We are Wolves combine their sawtooth guitars, primal
rhythms, gritty textures and howling synths in this video featuring the beguiling artwork of lead singer Alex Ortiz.

Billy Boat
Lisa Simonson
video/2006/USA/4:20 World Premiere
A hillbilly boat band disrupts the peace among the locals while performing
their high-octane one-hit wonder “Don’t Rock the Dock.”

All That Remains
Stephanie Maxwell & Michaela Eremiasova
video/2006/USA/6:00 Can Premiere
An intricate mosaic of abstracted animation and musical passages
creates a chaotic, yet coherent and tightly choreographed portrayal of
figural matter in perpetual decomposition.

In the Nick (Timing Is Everything)
Jason Middleton
video/2006/USA/3:00 Can Premiere
A math rock music video for the song “Shayna wuz here…peeing like a
cheetah” by Cantwell Gomez and Jordan. Playfully invoking an instructional film or a Sesame Street lesson, it encourages you to count along with the band’s complex and hyperactive time signature shifts.

Dumb Angel
Deco Dawson
16mm on video/2005/Can/9:00 Victoria Premiere
Inspired by fragments of Gus Van Sant’s Last Days, and conversations
with Van Sant himself, Dumb Angel features 17-year old preternaturally
talented Anders Erickson as the undisputed incarnation of Keith Moon.
Filmed in a single, dizzying take, and equal parts improvisation, experimental film, documentary, and music video, Dumb Angel defies categorisation and audience expectations while staring down the sacred cows of fame, talent and celebrity.

Asleep at the Wheel
Mike Maryniuk
16mm on video/2005/Can/2:30 W Can Premiere
Manipulating found footage of road trips from the 1960s, Maryniuk
crafts a break-neck psychedelic tribute to a friend who died in a car
accident.

I Love You So
Kees Brienen
16mm on video/2004/Netherlands/3:30 N American Premiere
The wheels of love go ’round and ’round.

Full Effect
Jeremy Bailey
video/2005/Can/2:00 Can Premiere
Cheap effects can’t make a melodramatic performer feel any better.
A genius paean to bathos and SPFX.

Disconnected
Karl Lind
video/2006/USA/3:50 Can Premiere
A woman sits waiting by the telephone while a million tiny hearts break,
and a lonely song tries to play itself, over and over.

Apocalypse Oz
Ewan Telford & Bradley Warden
35mm on video/2006/USA/25:00 Can Premiere
Fleeing her black-and-white home and her abusive Aunt and Uncle,
Dorothy Willard, a Vietnamese-American teenage punk, is dispatched deep into a Technicolor desert with orders to hunt down and assassinate her absent and insane US Army father—code named “The Wizard.” Taking off in a stolen car, Dorothy quickly finds that a nefarious cop has other plans for her. Enduring an odyssey of stoned surfers, car chases and gunfights in poppy fields, Dorothy manages to reach the remote desert outpost of the Wizard’s trailer-park base. Inside his mysterious junk-festooned trailer, she finds herself confronting the Wizard in a wholly unexpected form.

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