Orbit(Film) Teaser from Mark Eli­jah Rosen­berg on Vimeo. A film of films about our solar sys­tem. 85 min­utes of space. Orbit(film) is a project that uses the art of cin­ema to inspire the art of sci­ence and edu­ca­tion. A col­lab­o­ra­tive, 80-minute omnibus movie about our solar sys­tem, Orbit(film) is intended for all ages, as grade-schoolers will have their inter­est in art and sci­ence piqued, and older gen­er­a­tions will have their youth­ful love of space renewed. In Orbit(film), every planet in our solar sys­tem is rep­re­sented by a short film, each made by a dif­fer­ent film­maker, deal­ing with the sci­ence of outer space through cre­ative and emo­tional sto­ry­telling and visual poetry. Some or all of the orig­i­nal source mate­r­ial will come from NASA footage, rein­ter­preted by each film­maker to make a por­trait of the respec­tive planet. Non-planet films cover the sun, moon, comets and the first dog in space. THE SUN — Brent Hoff MERCURY — Ben Coon­ley VENUS ... … Read more »

2011, Los Ange­les, CA. Ther­mi­dor Releas­ing CAST: David Nord­strom and David Zell­ner LIGHTING: James Gra­ham SOUND MIXING AND SOUND EFFECTS: Nate Archer PRODUCERS: Joe Car­ducci, James Fotopou­los and Mike Plante SCREENPLAY: Ray­mond Pet­ti­bon VIDEO: James Fotopoulos Dash­ing lead­ing man of the for­ties picks up a stag model hitch­hiker on the Boule­vard one night in West Hol­ly­wood dur­ing the 1960s. The con­ver­sa­tion as they get stuck in traf­fic involves the young model’s rec­og­niz­ing the star, ask­ing advice and trig­ger­ing a psy­che­delic dis­course on act­ing for the cam­era and the meta­physics of fame on the big screen. … Read more »

50 films have been com­mis­sioned (eaten), var­i­ous ones are on tour now “I buy a film­maker lunch and in trade they give me a short film made for the cost of the lunch. It started by acci­dent – and neces­sity. In all, 50 short films have been com­mis­sioned (or eaten). Rules and ideas based on what­ever we talked about at lunch are writ­ten on a nap­kin con­tract. While each film has its own logic, it’s all about a vari­ety of tastes. The over­all metaphor is about com­mu­nity. It is very easy to help a film­maker. Buy one lunch today” –Mike Plante                   NOW PLAYING: May 5, 7:00pm: Chicago, Block Cinema Offi­cial Site: Lunch­film Please inquire for book­ing information Email: book­ing AT cinemadpresents.com … Read more »

Directed by Jake Mahaffy 84 min­utes, 2004 WAR is a sim­ple film por­trait of four char­ac­ters look­ing for work in the aban­doned lands of rural Amer­ica. Shoot­ing alone for almost five years on a hand-cranked movie cam­era with­out a pro­ducer, crew or bud­get, we assem­bled an uncon­ven­tional nar­ra­tive out of these char­ac­ter stud­ies, attempt­ing in lim­ited means to reveal the drama of a dis­in­te­grat­ing society. … Read more »

Directed by Jake Mahaffy 94 min­utes, 2007 An inde­pen­dent fea­ture about a man try­ing to suc­ceed in a busi­ness that doesn’t exist. … Read more »

A slot machine col­lec­tion of trail­ers, films and odd­i­ties that were made or screened at the das­tardly Cin­eVe­gas Film Fes­ti­val from the last ten years. … Read more »