IDFF New York City

Saturday, November 26, 2005

@ 7:30 PM
 

Peter Norton Symphony Space
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
2537 Broadway at 95th Street

            

Film Menu NYC

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Front Range Freaks: Biscuit

(USA, 2003, 3 minutes)

Director/Producer: Peter Mortimer

With encouragement from owner Tom, Biscuit — a small dog with an appetite for big climbs — makes her way up difficult and committing rock faces.

 

 

 

 

A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary

(USA, 2004, 30 minutes *Special Edit for the Intl. Dog Film Festival)
Director/Producer: Gayle Kirschenbaum
(in person)

A wacky and poignant documentary about the positive effects of the bond between dogs and humans, told through the story of Gayle Kirschenbaum and her dog Chelsea. Chelsea rigged with a “doggie cam”, this couple hit the streets of NYC looking for love. 9/11 happens. Chelsea emerges as a healing force as a therapy dog.

 

 

The Dog Who Was A Cat Inside

(UK, 2002, 3 minutes)

Director/Producer: Siri Melchior/ Passion Pictures

The Dog Who Is a Cat Inside is a special animal. The dog and cat live together in the same body, but this causes conflict. They learn that only by resolving their differences and working together can they find happiness.

 

 

 

La Puppe (USA, 2004, 10 minutes)
Director/Producer: Timothy Greenberg 
(in person)

An homage to – a parody of- Chris Marker’s classic short “La Jetee” (1962). Featuring a nuanced performance from MARTY, the patriarch of the French New Wave Plush-Toy movement and still the leading inanimate object working in film today.

 

 

 

 

Gee Haw

(Canada, 2004, 9 minutes)
Director/Producer: Jerri Cassidy
Through visual images and music the film follows musher, Holger Bauer, and his eleven Husky dogs during their mail delivery route in the Cariboo Mountains in British Columbia.

 

 

 

 

Garpenfargle
(USA, 2004, 4 minutes)
Director/Producer: Bill Kersey and Edward Kim
The master is leaving and Hobbes is left alone with only one instruction: “Stay out of the trash.”

 

 

 

 

 

Go For A Walk?

(USA, 2005, 2 minutes)

Director/Producer: Joe D’Agostino

“Dog’s Eye” view of a walk.

 

 

 

Dead Last: A Tale of Triumph

(USA, 1996, 9 minutes)

Director/Producer: Robin Beeck

Tim Triumph, a colorful, self-described low-budget, low-speed musher who captured the imagination of the entire Alaskan community when he put together a team of cast-off dogs and came in decidedly last in the 1100-mile Iditarod sled-dog race. He proved to be a dogged competitor and became a hero in every sense of the word.

 

 

 


La Vie d’un Chien (The Life of a Dog)

(USA, 2004, 13 minutes)
Director/Producer: John Harden/Sheila Harden
Paris, 1962 – A scientist invents a formula which transforms him into a dog. It’s only when he regains his human form that his troubles begin…

 

 

 

Shepherds
(USA, 2005, 7 minutes)
Director/Producer: Florence Buchanan, Karen McIntyre, Arlene Fernandez
Dogs never lie. But people do. Jake and Lucy are too proud to admit they still love each other. Fortunately, their German Shepherds drag them together, and force them to confront their feelings at last.

 

 

Puttin’ On The Dog
(USA, 2002, 9 minutes)
Director/Producer: Carol Wilder
Malcolm Sidney wasn’t any ordinary dog. For one thing, he had a movie star as a mistress.  When Sylvia Sidney died in 1999, she bequeathed her beloved pet to New York’s ritzy National Arts Club, where Malcolm rose rapidly from orphan pug to celebrity pooch.

 

 

 

Little Dog Turpie

(UK, 2004, 5 minutes)

Director/Producer: Ben Mars

Deep dark woods, an old man is kept awake by his dog barking…

 

 

 

 

 

Front Range Freaks: Biscuit Part 2

(USA, 2005, 3 minutes)

Director/Producer: Peter Mortimer

Biscuit the climbing canine, superstar of Front Range Freaks, now returns to  show her puppy Felix the ways of the rock.