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Come one, come all, to the 14th Annual Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival, featuring original shorts from around the world!

The 2008 14th Annual Brainwash Movie Festival takes place Fri. & Sat., July 25th and 26th at 9:00 p.m. each night at Mandela Village Arts Center,
1357 5th St., Oakland, California, USA.


The New York Times says the SF Bay Area's own Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk In movie festival, the Brainwash Movie Festival, "pirat a piece of that old Hollywood magic and challeng conventions on the role of public space in the process."

The sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes wacky, but always original Brainwash Movie Festival returns in the summer of 2008 for a slightly darker, perhaps more macabre engagement than in previous years.

Attendees to the festival are encouraged to either drive, bike, walk, or take public transit to the venue -- a parking lot near the West Oakland BART station -- where movies are screened in traditional drive-in movie theater fashion, complete with FM transmission and a full-service concession stand.
And ongoing this year, on Stage II, for your edification and viewing enjoyment, Hologlyphics will be showing Volumetric Movies, 3D video with holographic properties, seen without special glasses -
www.hologlyphics.com.

The short movies screening this year are as follow (with descriptions):

FRIDAY

(Invocation and ritual introduction by the Rhythmic Revolution)

The Drill - Dan SeneresSurvival, control, and revenge in a post-apocalyptic world.

The Road - Owen ThomasRandom acts of kindness go unpunished.

Crossin' All The Boundaries - Rebecca ParrishRace, class, gender, and power explored in a Mississippi town, via the 2008 election.

Psych Burn - J.X. WilliamsRediscover J.X. Williams' classic.

Hotel Paradiso - Sol BundyWarum sind Sie hier, bitte? Ich muss ein Huhn zu schiessen.

Human Park - Mick CusimanoDinosaurs go to the human zoo

FilmDog - Joey BargstenLearn the exciting basics of making film from A Boy And His Dog.

The Language Lesson - Eileen FinnThe dangers of procrastination.

Wiffle Ball - Jim FordIt's just a game. Seriously.

Treehugger - David BurnsMan loves tree.

Dead Boyfriends - Xstine CookFire! Blood! Puppet Death!

The Death of Artists (Air 56) - Jim MagriniAbstract, image-laden critique of the artists themselves.

Severely Spaced - Mark McGothigan & Ure ThrallThe Cosmos redistributed.

Bally Master - Gary BeeberMeet Scott Baker, master of the Bally stage at
Coney Island.

Video Calibration - Caitlin Horsmon0:01:25

Friday running time: 119.083333333333 minutes


SATURDAY

J.X. Williams trailer - Noel LawrenceRediscovered 60's movie genius (Featuring an appearance by Noel Lawrence, Executive Director of the J.X. Williams Archive)

Heartless - Paul DalioSimon adapts the story of the Tin Man, with heart.

Every Seven Minutes - Josh BassMike just wants to sleep. His alarm clock has other ideas.

Motherload of Trophies - Karim Amara"There's beauty in junk... people throw away so much good stuff."

The Human Error - Derek BurnettA problem has been detected that seems to have been caused by the following file: you.

Whitebread and Goatman - Steve HosfordThe biggest score of two cops' careers.

Long Night Drone - Neil FormanA music video that chronicles the building of a rock star.

Even - Ben JurinRevenge is served raw and red.

Amor Peligrosa - Michelle SilvaLove in the shadows.

And the Birds Flew From the Trees - Sean BuckelewA walk in the forest takes an unexpected turn.

The Mercury Men - Christopher PrekstaThe fate of the universe rests in the hands of a meager office drone.

Optech 1 - Dan MonceauxDeceptively simple Op Art-inspired audio-visual immersion.

The Double - Rani DeMuthA man on a journey to discovery.

Transrexia - VoltaireRawr!

Followed by the ever-popular Awards Presentation and closing remarks, MC'ed by the Rhythmic Revolution

Saturday running time: 111.666666666667 plus.

And Special Mention to two great feature films which will not screen this weekend at the Brainwash festival, but will be showcased in special Brainwash shows soon:

D.O.P.E. - Brian StewartDOPE is a look at four legendary world champion skateboarders, Jay Adams from Dogtown's Z Boys, Christian Hosoi, Dennis Martinez, and Bruce Logan, examining their rise to the top, their descent into the drug and crime culture, and their slow climb back to life.

Freaky Faron - John RossA teenager and former mental patient who once believed that aliens trained her to protect earth uses her strange abilities to solve mysteries for kids.


The Brainwash Movie Festival: brainwashm.com/