Distinguished and internationally recognized filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt visited the Athens Film Festival on the night of April 28 and brought a unique collection of five movies with him.
“Kaboom” is where comedy meets sci-fi, set to the soundtrack of a horror movie filmed at a gay bar.
For director and Ohio University alumnus Danilo Serbedzija, film is a family affair. In his first feature-length film, “72 Days,” Serbedzija directs his father, internationally renowned actor Rade Serbedzija, and Danilo’s sister, actress and model Lucija Serbedzija.
What do you call a film that was written as a comedy, directed as a drama and edited as a horror movie? What do you do if you are a disgruntled priest lost in a canoe with your sister’s ex-boyfriend? And how do you react to a film that leaves more questions unanswered at the end than at the beginning? Welcome to “The Catechism Cataclysm.”
Five of Jay Rosenblatt’s short films will be screened at the Athens Film Festival: “The Smell of Burning Ants,” “Phantom Limb,” “The Darkness of Day,” “The D Train” and “Afraid So.”
Gritty, somber and more than a little dispiriting, “The Off Hours” is an depressing tale of a young waitress’s mundane life and a reminder that sometimes, life just sucks.
Two things stand out about director and Ohio University alumnus Todd Rohal’s film, “Catechism Cataclysm:” it’s hilarious, but difficult to describe.
In his new documentary, “The Electricity Fairy,” Ohio University alumnus and filmmaker Tom Hansell wants you to wonder, “Is any energy really clean?”
In science, experiments are the main catalyst of important discoveries. Most would define experimenting as trying out different ideas to see what works and what does not. In the Athens Film Festival competition series, “Experimental Epics,” which played April 28, some experiments were successful while others blew up.
“Experimental Grab Bag,” one of the final competition shows of the Athens Film Festival, kept viewers’ minds active and alert. The unique pieces left ample room for the audience to use their own imagination to interpret the films’ purpose.
