Program One: James Broughton, Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Joseph Cornell, Helen Levitt and Harry Smith.

Program Two: Bruce Conner, Bruce Baillie, Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas.

Program Three: Julius Ziz, Stom Sogo, Mora Tierney, Auguste Varkalis, Peter Hutton and Jonas Mekas.

Presented by Jonas Mekas

Host Steve Charney combines his magic, comedy and ventriloquism with a selection of short movies for children, including: Low Down Underground, Swaroop in Bovine Bliss, The Box, Waldemar, Shivelry, What’s in Heidi’s Head and Patrick Swayze: Cartoon Sound Wizard.

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What’s in Heidi’s Head? Is an entertaining and educational short subject series which takes us on a trip through Heidi’s amazing mixed media world.

Greg Harrison began as a commercial production designer in New York City where he was part of the Original design team for Pee Wee’s Playhouse. He went on to design numerous commercials and music videos.

In 1997, Greg launched Carolina Pictures in Los Angeles and has since produced and directed live action and animated short subjects for MTV, Nickelodeon, The Fox Family Channel, Comedy Central and the Cartoon Network.

By presenting live staged readings of screenplays  before screening the films, STAGE TO SCREEN presents an interesting contrast of media and allows for a comparative study between the written word, staged presentations and film.

Presented by local theater group Actors and Writers

Two small-time crooks, who happen to be a couple, show up a house in order to rob it and retrieve a suitcase for their boss. Unfortunately, they show up at the wrong address.

The Interactive Forum for this year’s Woodstock Film Festival is intended to promote emerging new media. Artists, program designers and speakers will present media, screening demonstrations and educational panels. Selected media will be presented to the public on-site on desktop computers and over the World Wide Web. Selected pieces will be projected as part of demos featuring guest artists.

Event producer – Michael Latriano

Equipment provided by Macworks & Apple Computers

Music videos have become the new film school and among the first graduates were David Fincher (Seven), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) and Hype Williams (Belly). Musicians are now looking to filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch, Guy Ritchie, Gus Van Sant and Hal Hartley to give them credibility and expand on the meaning of their music. Bands and performers leading the way in furthering this new art are Beck, Beastie Boys, Bjork, Madonna, REM and Sonic Youth. So sit back as we present a few of our favorites.

Sonic Cinema is a one-hour program that examines the intersection of music and film and the creative cross-pollination that can take place among independent artists as they exchange ideas and collaborate across the mediums of music and filmmaking. The program is made up of music videos, short films and short-form documentaries along, with interviews of the musicians, filmmakers, photographers and graphic artists whose collaborations are highlighted on the show.

The current corporate animation explosion (Disney, Dreamworks) has an unexpected benefit-it has created a healthy counter-culture of weird animated shorts. I'm happy to present a program of some of my favorites of these cartoons. Most of these shorts have certain properties in common that help them become successful: they're cheap, short and funny. Included will be films by a few of my favorite artists-Signe Baumane, Josh Rechnitz and Don Hertzfeldt.

{Please use Mutant Aliens photo}