El Portal
Fallen Star AJC & The Envelope Pushers
Experimental, 7:52
Mississippi Music Video, 8:00
Director: J. Robinson
Director: Clay Hardwick (OFF Alum: Loki (2013))
Mississippi Premiere
Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of Music Video block)
Screening: Friday, 11:00 am, Malco; Saturday, 1:00 pm, Shelter on Van Buren (part of Experimental block) El Portal is an experimental documentary about the Cedar Motor Lodge in El Portal, California (population: 474). Combining vintage analog home videos with footage shot this summer, the film spans twenty five years, weaving together the complicated and tragic story of the lodge with the filmmaker’s family history.
Embers Narrative Feature, 1:25:29 Director: Claire Carré Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 8:30 pm, Malco; Sunday, 3:15 pm, Malco (plays with Mother’s Day) After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories explore how we might learn, love and communicate in a future that has no past.
OxFilm Society OxFilm is a collaborative effort between the Oxford Film Festival and Yoknapatawpha Arts Council to enhance film as a cultural, artistic and economic driver for the Lafayette County, Oxford and University communities. OxFilm seeks to promote education and provide tools to support local filmmakers while encouraging films to be made in our community. Through your generous support the community can participate in workshops and panels and filmmakers can rent affordable filmmaking equipment and have access to top end post production facilities. Memberships start at $40 a year for students to $200 for a lifetime membership with free equipment rentals. Where: All OxFilm Society events take place at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center at 413 South 14th Street in Oxford, Mississippi, or at the Oxford Film Festival office at 9 Industrial Park Drive, Suite 152.
To join as a member, see our monthly workshops, donate or rent film equipment, visit oxfilmsociety.com or contact us at oxfilmsociety@gmail.com
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Fallen Star is what happens when you make it to the top. This music video combines three original songs into a cinematic narrative, following AJC into a world of bitter famedom. Of course, making a deal at the crossroads has its costs.
Fiddler’s Green Mississippi Music Video, 5:55 Director: Thad Lee (OFF Alum: Bill Lilly Builds a Greenhouse (2011) and more) Screening: Friday, 6:00 pm, The Round Table; Saturday, 4:45 pm, Malco (part of Music Video block) A song about a mysterious afterworld for people who are too bad for Heaven and too good for Hell.
Finding Cleveland Mississippi Documentary, 12:24 Director: Larissa Lam Mississippi Premiere Screening: Friday, 5:15 pm, Conference Center; Sunday, 12:45 pm, Malco (part of the Mississippi Documentary block) Finding Cleveland is a documentary short film that follows Charles Chiu and his family on an emotional journey as they take a trip to Cleveland, Mississippi to visit the grave site of Charles’ father, KC Lou.
Fitting the Description in North Portland Documentary Short, 25:44, Portland, Oregon Director: Jarratt Taylor (OFF Alum: The New Debutantes (2012)) Regional Premiere Screening: Friday, 11:15 am, Conference Center; Saturday 4:45 pm, Malco (part of the Documentary Short block)
February 17-21, 2016