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Millsaps College hosts the only Mississippi site for the Southern Circuit Film Series. Join us as innovative independent filmmakers screen and discuss their films.
All films are free and show on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm in Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex, room 215 on the Millsaps College campus, with a Q & A session to follow. For more information, contact Melissa Lea, 601-974-1755.
Read the great things filmmakers say about thier experiences at Millsaps as they make the SCFS tour on the Southern Circuit Blog.
February 16, 2010
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention with Peter Esmonde, producer/director
An amusing journey through the sonic world of an eccentric creative genius. Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin shuns the hype and hyperbole of the commercial art world - yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by museums all over the planet. Filmed over two years, this cinema verité documentary feature follows the artist/inventor as he devises a perpetual motion machine, builds a 20-meter tower of automatic electric guitars, and collaborates with the Kronos Quartet on an outrageous world premiere. The film will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joy of creative experiment.
March 23, 2010
God's Architects with Zack Godshall producer/director
The documentary film God's Architects examines several divinely inspired artist-architects and their enigmatic creations. These oft-marginalized creators are self-taught builders, masons, and sculptors who work resourcefully according to intuitive and religious conviction. The film details how and why these men, with neither funding nor blueprints, construct their divinely inspired visions.
April 13, 2010
Between Floors with Jen White, producer/director
Between Floorsexamines the human condition through a uniquely claustrophobic lens, intercutting between five stuck elevators and the people trapped inside them. Each elevator becomes an existential purgatory, forcing its occupants to not only confront their isolation, but themselves and each other in varied and unexpected ways. Taking place entirely in five elevators, Between Floors is as unusual as it is arresting, blurring lines of genre, tone and form while its characters are stripped bare - trapped, alone, waiting - and we get to watch what happens.
