Summer Film Series: Video Diaries

Thursday, August 9 at 8pm

Incorporating video diary footage and colorful montage, Seeing Red is Su Friedrich’s deeply personal film about the existential crises of the individual and about what unites all humanity.

Limited to the confines of foreign hotel rooms, John Smith’s Hotel Diaries is a wry commentary relating personal events in the filmmaker’s life to contemporary world events such as the bombings in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq.

The Guzzler of Grizzly Manor is George Kuchar’s humorous response to the Virginia Film Festival, as well as a comment on the unnecessarily prolific use of tacky digital video effects in modern film projects; or is it an homage?