It's time to get surreal. Turn yourself into a donkey, expel your alter ego, perform a ritual sacrifice or fell a giant tree using a modified musical instrument. Confront reality by stepping outside of it in these illuminating and provocative perspectives on authority. Running time: 93 minutes.
Isabel Bader Theatre: Wednesday June 6, 1:30 pm
Isabel Bader Theatre: Saturday June 9, 7:45 pm
| The Big Tree
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| To get his fishing boat back, Dave agrees to cut down the tallest tree on Vancouver Island using his stilts organ. A quirky, playful and whimsical homage to matinée serials of the 1940s. (Warning: Painkillers may cause musical interludes.)
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| Men Of The Earth
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| Just what are those construction workers doing when they make you wait in traffic? This amazingly abstract analysis of ritual, sacrifice, death and hierarchy offers up a few choice theories.
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| Woodcarver
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| Surveillance footage is processed and reconstituted alongside defiant dubstep beats and audio reports of a Native man's murder by Seattle police. Powerful, provocative and unforgettable.
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| The Umbrella Man
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| Legendary documentarian Errol Morris turns his Interrotron on JFK assassination scholar Tink Thompson to determine the true identity and purpose of the infamous "umbrella man." For every weird conspiracy theory, there is an even weirder truth.
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| Edmond Was A Donkey
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| Everyone always thought Edmond was a bit of an ass, but once he embraces this perception of himself, his life is forever changed. A moving animated tale about waking to the dream of your life.
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| Nothing Else
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| Maxime isn't sure when he stopped wishing for things, but on his 32nd birthday, his lack of dreams is all he can think about. Award-winning director Anne Émond and actor Pierre-Luc Brillant (C.R.A.Z.Y.) craft a mesmerizing tale of melancholic ennui.
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| Kali The Little Vampire
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| Academy Award®-winner Christopher Plummer (Beginners) inhabits the eloquent, immortal soul of a child vampire who only wants to make friends. A starkly beautiful hand-drawn animation that makes an inspired argument for vampire emancipation.
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| The Twin
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| A dedicated architect and passionate free-diver, Gustav seems content with his life. But is he happy with himself? That strange tickle at the back of his throat seems to indicate otherwise. A droll, metaphysical take on one man's relationship with himself.
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