Leah Land

Twitch is included on the Brooklyn Independent DVD compilation now available from IndiePix

Joe Pacheco, Curator of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, has selected 10 stellar shorts film for this DVD compilation. They have all played at major festivals and won important awards but, most importantly, they have played at Pacheco’s screening series, which takes place every other Monday at Barbes, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Independent Vol. 1

TRUE STORY
Directed by Stephanie Via
3 min – 2006 – USA – English – B&W
An elderly woman remembers a tragic childhood moment.

GRAND LUNCHEONNETTE
Directed by Peter Sillen
5 min – 2005 – USA – English – Color
“Grand Luncheonette” documents the last days of one of 42nd Street’s unforgettable lunch counters.

BARBARA LEATHER
Directed by Seth Lind
10 min – 2005 – USA – English – Color
Pioneer craftswoman Barbara Shaum muses on the art of leather crafting, her first sip of ale in NYC’s oldest men’s-only pub, and her pickiest client– Chiki the llama.

LA VIE D’UN CHIEN
Directed by John Harden
14 min – 2005 – USA – French / English Subtitles – B&W
A scientist formulates a serum that transforms him into a dog,but it’s only when he changes back into a human that his troubles begin.

EGG
Directed by Benh Zeitlin
9 min – 2005 – USA – English – Color
This surrealistic interpretation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick tells a microscopic tale of epic tragedy.

JETTISON YOUR LOVED ONES
Directed by Ray Tintori
6 min – 2005 – USA – English – B&W
A man addicted to faking his own death strives for glory while his abandoned son, a boxer who thinks he’s from the future, falls in love with his half-sister, the world’s greatest swordfighter.

SPIN
Directed by Jamin Winans
8 min – 2005 – USA – Color
A mysterious DJ is sent to a city block to mend a series of chain reactions that occur in our everyday lives.

PATTERNS
Directed by Jamie Travis
9 min – 2005 – Canada – English – Color
Pauline waits for a phone call, misses the phone call, gets the phone call and regrets the phone call in this stylized allegory of innocence and experience.

TWITCH
Directed by Leah Meyerhoff
10 min – 2005 – USA – English – Color
Unable to find the emotional intimacy she craves, a young girl must come to terms with her emerging sexuality, her disabled mother and the irrational fear that her mother’s disability is contagious.

VACATIONLAND
Directed by Lance Edmands
28 min – 2006 – USA – English – Color
Two young brothers journey across the back roads of Maine on their bicycles hoping to reunite with their older brother, but when things don’t go as planned, and home is miles away– the meaning of family begins to change.

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