SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2022
(LIVE IN PERSON)
PRODUCERS CLUB
358 WEST 44 TH
NY, NY
ALL TICKETS FOR THE MOVIE BLOCKS ARE $18
WELCOME TO WONDERAMA
1030 am-11am
Fight For What is Right
Song - Carlos KRL Mera
US, 4 min
Hello, I am KRL, and thank you for considering one of the songs that I am most proud of, the process of making Fight For What Is Right is a whole story that I am willing to tell you about, thanks.
Sensitive Fate, 2021
Director Oren Affias
Israel, 6 min
in this work, I tried to express the struggles and the rough path we take when we blind to see the darkness in ourselves. and when we are in this place, it’s like a private hell. Once we dare to take a look at the dark side in ourselves we can overcome it.
Bikers Dream, 2022
Director Ken Glaser
US, 3 min
A Biker's Dream is Ken Glaser's whimsical homage to motorcycling, one of his lifelong passions. This 3-minute animated short film began as a poem and evolved into a unique audio/visual journey that ventures beyond the confines of earthbound pavement
YOUR SURREALIST PLAYGROUND
11 am - 1 pm
Dada Noise 2, 2021
Director Christopher Rakas
US, 3 min
An abstract short
Meshes of the After, 2022
Directors Meg Case, Brad Porter
US, 10 min
A retelling of Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren’s formative avant-garde film, a psychogeographical journey through the shifting landscape of a woman’s home, mutating between experience, imagination,and causation in a recursively developing labyrinthine vision
CIFIKA - Good Luck From Her (Lusine Remix, Live), 2022
Director Trent Moorman
US, 6 min.
Cifika's lyrics in the song are about borrowing strength from a future self she sees as realized and strong because her present self is down - "I want to borrow good luck from her, I just want it to burst
Complete, 2022
Director Stephanie Leet
US, 3 min
A young woman has a troubling card reading. She feels something is near her, watching her. Darkness starts to enter her world until completion is made.
Out There, 2021
Director Lars Mikkes
Denmark, 30 min
A young man finds himself in his own primitive self-created world, consisting of a tent, a well, a small garden and a scrap yard.He performs some rituals over the book Karma Sutra and cuts important notes, images out of the book as a form of worship and sacrifice to make a new life grow, all the while his subconscious takes more and more control and brings him beyond nature and far out in the universe.
Lavoro Macchinine, 2021
Artists : Alexis Grey Hildreth and Ora Cogan
Canada, 4 min
Lavoro Macchinine is a collaboration between Alexis Grey Hildreth (moving image) and Ora Cogan (sound) that deconstructs the opening credits and reimagines the musical overture in the title sequence from the Italian period drama Il Gattopardo (1963).
A Walk Thur Latent Space, 2021
Director David Witzling
US, 6 min
Two artificial bits of intelligence compete to mingle fact with its statistical representation. Thinking machines will eat your future. In the end, all is well in the Disneyverse Thinking machines will eat your future.
Lotería!, 2020
Director Isabella Hicks
US, Mexico, 12 min
Rafa is forced into the trial of his life when he awakens to find himself face to face with Destiny and her deck of lotería cards.
Photography and Rocketry, 2005
Matthew Robert Macy
US, 6 min
The eye is a miraculous instrument, forever tuned to the pulsating wavelengths of light but, the eye is hemmed in by horizons.
Forest Creatures, 2021
Director Larissa Archer
US, 3 min
In the height of the pandemic, from the silence of Isolation, the Forest Creatures come out to play.
Smoking Mirror, 2022
Zareh Tjeknavorian
US, 2 min
An eye for an eye...An analog sleight of hand - all effects made in-camera. one minute / 16mm reversal / B&W / Silent - BYOSFX (bring your own sound effects)
untitled [self-destruct a]
Director Malte Bartels
Germany, 1 min
untitled [self-destruct a] shows the physical and chemical destruction of the filmmaker's portrait.
ALTERED STATES
1 pm-3 pm
Dharma in Everywave, 2020
Director Lee Seong Wook
Korea, 6 min
Natural footage collected by excluding intentions as much as possible was recombined into the iconography of Mandala-Dharmachakra .
Free Your Mind, 2021
Director Kevin Trung Manh
US, 14 min
An artist forced to engage in creating mass-produced paintings struggles to conform. Seeking help from a poster, he begins to delve into the philosophical nature of the inner self, meditation, and religion. Inspired by the writings of Thich Nhat Hanh
Medusa's Bakery, 2021
Director Sheru Arora
US, 10 min
Two young artists accidentally eat psychedelics taking them on a transformative journey while throwing a party.
Pure Natural Wonder
Director Justin Saint Cyr
PNW: Pure Natural Wonder is a visionary experience into the Pacific Northwest.
Swamp Thing, 2022
Director Dane Cree
US,5 min
Peace, love, and embrace is found in the dance between two entities merging in psychedelic connection. The soundtrack ‘Swamp Thang’ was recorded by the Minneapolis, MN based band Age of Curation
Identity, 2021
Director Oona Räyhäntausta
Finland, 3 min
Is anything really ”ours”, anyway?
Grateful Dean, 2021
Director Gabriel Joncas, Guillaume Dubois, Kenzo Suzuki
Canada, 11 min
This psychedelic portrait film follows Dean Robert, an eccentric self-sufficient mushroom cultivator who lives in an RV. It explores the adventurous and carefree van life, while also acknowledging that this reality can sometimes be deceptive.
Mayur, 2015
Director Vibeke Sorensen
Singapore, 8 minutes
Mayurfeatures complex images that evolve from threads and roots to vines and veins, forming intricate lace-like 2 and 3-dimensional structures, tiles, and living textiles in the luminous colors of the peacock.
The Awakening
Director Marco Waldis
US, 14
In a world that has no memory of pure and uncontaminated nature, a group of mystical creatures that are at the same time abstract and real (the living fossils created by the artist Alberto di Fabio) endures an imaginary journey into the places they have inherited from the extinct former planetary rulers.
Endlessneism, 2021
Director Liam Clark
Australia, 12 min
A 16mm erotic trip about two friends who play a game where each rule prescribes them to act out their most violent and perverse private fantasies.
I Gets No Sleep, 2021
Director JD Ferenc
US, 14 minutes
A music video director moonlights as talent during the pandemic. A 14-minute film told through song.
Melody, 2021
Director Eric Harrison
US, 4 min
An homage to "Spill the Wine" by Eric Burdon and War, "Open My Eyes" by Nazz, "I Heard Her Call My Name" by the Velvets, and a few dozen other great psychedelic nuggets
A DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION
3 pm-4:45 pm
Woodstock : A Snapshot in Time, 2021
Nancy Cohen, Koan
US, 90 min
Two filmmakers, one an alumni of the original Woodstock Festival, the other, a younger Brit who only read about the sixties, plan a return to the original site in hopes of re- kindling the spirit of the time.
FEATURE PRESENTATION
4:45 pm - 6 pm
Enter Mycel, 2022
Director Daniel Christian Limmer
Austria. 74 mins
After the death of her mother, thirteen-year-old Lena struggles to keep the family life together, between her newborn baby sister and her depressed father, who seeks relief from his loss through the manic belief of a timeless and worldwide emotion-based communication system enabled by a natural fungal parasite called the Mycel