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| Pessimistic Films Are Fare for Fire Island Festival Opening |
by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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Photo courtesy
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| Tim Swain & Gil Bar-Sela |
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The seventh annual Fire Island Film and Video Festival, sponsored by the Arts Project of Cherry Grove and the Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and slated for five consecutive Thursday nights at the Community House, opened on July 31 with the New York premieres of two grim new films, Todd Verow's feature "Between Something & Nothing" and Dennis Shinners' short "Area X." Shinners was present and answered questions at the end of the evening.
"Between Something & Nothing" (USA, 2008, 105 minutes), based on Verow's experiences at the Rhode Island School of Design, depicts the seamy, sometimes violent underside of art students' lives: drinking, drugging, stealing, cheating, hustling. Desperate, irresponsible students, peculiar, abusive teachers, and even more peculiar johns populate this disturbing film. "BS&N" is fleetingly sexy, but still unsettling, and even more fleetingly romantic and optimistic. Verow apparently survived this chaotic past and outgrew it sufficiently to be able to derive a brutal work of art from it. Tim Swain and Julia Frey star as art students and partners in crime, or whatever, with Gil Bar-Sela as a hustler, Swain's sometime love interest.
In "Area X" (USA, 2007, 15 minutes), with Matt Schuneman and Antony Raymond, a young runaway's hard luck gets even harder. The short has been shown in Philadelphia and Dublin and will next reach Portugal. Shinners pronounced himself pleased to have his work shown as curtain-raiser for "BS&N."
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