CAULDRON INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
MAY 23-26, SALT LAKE CITY, UT
CAULDRON is an international film and video festival based in Salt Lake City that is dedicated to challenging and innovative motion-picture works in any genre or format. Unorthodox film narratives, rogue documentaries, avant-garde cinema, video mashups, abstract video art, genre-bending storytelling... We accept all categories with an eye towards innovation, iconoclasm, personal visions, and any/all unique motion picture experiences. CAULDRON is a swirling brew of styles and forms selected from all over the world that, while in it's first year,
aims to become a premier destination for radical cinema forms.
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FULL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
ALL SCREENINGS WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE SALT LAKE CITY DOWNTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY
210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
ALL SCREENINGS WILL BE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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CLICK HERE FOR FULL FILM DESCRIPTIONS
THURSDAY MAY 23
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6:30-7:00 pre-screening* selection: Innerscapes - Alice Highet – UK
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7:00: LOVE IS WAR - Ragnar Lasse-Henriksen – NORWAY
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FRIDAY MAY 24
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10:30-11:00 pre-screening* selections:
-Touch Abstract 2 - Tim Hutchings – USA
-Destruction of the Field - Enzo Cillo – ITALY
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11:00: PATHS/BOUNDARIES (shorts program)
-Events in the Tunnel - Penny McCann, Eric Walker – CANADA
-Fuzzy Boundaries - Megan Young – USA
-The Silent Garden - Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson – USA
-Anicca - Antonella Di Tillo – ITALY
-Vanitas Variation 1 - Tim Sullivan – USA
-He Got Lost in the Forest of Her Memory - Alberto Varet Pascual – SPAIN
-Ondine - Mary Hanlon – USA
-Dream Resort - Peter Belkin, Lauren Hartman – USA
-Monolith - Teri Carson – USA/MEXICO
-The Elegance of Sugar - Crystal Beiersdorfer – USA
-Jitters - Zack Schaefer - USA (Utah)
-Parallel Botany - Magdalena Bermudez - USA
-Vanitas Variation 2 - Tim Sullivan – USA
-First Hermanubis: Initiation - Michael Alexander Morris – USA
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1:30-2:00 pre-screening* selections:
-Movie of Your Life – Brian Staker – USA (Utah)
-Positive X Reversal – Chad Gooch – USA
2:00: CLAIMED TERRAIN (shorts program)
-A Fence is a Fence but the Clouds Move Freely - Curtis Miller – USA
-Simulation: Voladores - Dominick Andrew Porras – USA
-“And When I Die Let Me be Buried in a Hemlock Coffin, so I’ll Go Through Hell Snapping.” - Sarah Ema Friedland – USA
-Its not Art its Television – Atomic Elroy – USA
-Mirrors and Screens - Janis Crystal Lipzin – USA
-Autoritratto all'Inferno / Self-portrait in Hell - Federica Foglia – CANADA
-Trajectory 2 - Cyril Galmiche – FRANCE
-F-14 - Jesse Walton – USA
-Bezuna - Saif Alsaegh – USA/IRAQ
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3:25-4:00 pre-screening* selections:
-BUNNY GIRL - Monet Clark – USA
-Distances - Lee Tusman, Amelia Marzec – USA
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4:00: SWALLOW FIRE (shorts program) FOR MATURE AUDIENCES
-Parangolé - Abinadi Meza – USA/MEXICO
-If I Sound Like I’m Choking - Forrest Simmons – USA
-Lick Fire - Jeff Zorrilla – Argentina
-The Ecolution - Ahmed Tahsin Shams – USA/BANGLADESH
-When I Said Express I Meant the Train Not the Clothing Brand - Ajunie Virk – USA
-Welcome to the Enclave - Sarah Lasley – USA
-Things We Swallow - Carleen Maur – USA
-Mom - Hayden Lilly Daiber – USA
-Return of the Näcken - Cassandra Sechler – USA
SATURDAY MAY 25
10:45-11:00 pre-screening* selection:
With a Finger to her Lips – Alana Bartol - CANADA
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11:00: GLITCH RIDE (shorts program)
-Passengers - Alvin Tang – Singapore
-Ashes of Roses - Sasha Waters – USA
-Oscillating Sporadically - Gabby Follett Sumney, Hogan Seidel – USA
-Echoes of Pandemic - Víctor Rodolfo Jiménez – USA/CUBA
-The Marsh - Megan Jo Capenar – USA (Utah)
-Vvaaccuumm - Timothy David Orme – USA
-ElectroLandscape - Zsolt Gyenes – HUNGARY
-8 Bits or Less - Patrick Lichty – USA
-Helluva Way to Die - Liam Thomas Dougherty – UK
-Phan Acts - Jessica Parnell – UK
-Hemorrhage – Ruth Hayes – USA
-13th Ave Fargo Mine Cart – Raymond Rea – USA
-The Enlightenment - Stephanie Barber – USA
-Dream Machine Ballet – Pierre Ajavon - FRANCE
1:20-1:30 pre-screening* selection: La Citta Reale - Hing Tsang – UK/Peru
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1:30 SCRYING SCREENS (shorts program)
-Language Unknown - Janelle VanderKelen – USA
-Random Walk Through the Latent Space - David Witzling – USA
-Over We Go - Mary Billyou – USA
-Tales and Visions of Community with MM Serra: To Jonas With Love - MM Serra, Emily Singer –USA
-Pilgrimage - Anthony Buchannan – USA
-Eicha: The Book of Lumenations - Adeena Karasick – USA
-Meine Inspiration - Neil Needleman – USA
-Gestrata - Kellie Bornhoft – USA (Utah)
-Ambulance - ANDi LAND – USA
-Tourist Town - Dan Sokolowski – CANADA
-[The User]-^^%^%^% - Damien Looney – UK
-Empire - Grant Petery – UK
3:18-3:30 pre-screening* selection: Everlasting Happiness -
Deborah White – AUSTRAILIA
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3:30 QUANDRY AND CRISIS (shorts program)
-Reversal - Diane Nerwen – USA
-GRID - Alexandre Alagôa – PORTUGAL
-Morning: Yukon River - Dan Sokolowski – CANADA
-A Visitor Arrived at the Museum Today - Christopher Lynn – USA
-Know No Now - Karl Erickson – USA
-DVA - Alexandra Karelina – RUSSIAN FEDERATION
-MygaloMorphae - Dusty Deen – USA
-Image Me - Till Gombert – GERMANY
-Vanitas Variation 3 - Tim Sullivan – USA
-Horrendum 36DOT 06 - Eduardo Molea - BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA
- Projections From The Third Half Trilogy - Zeina Barakeh – STATE OF PALESTINE
SUNDAY MAY 26
11:15-11:30 pre-screening* selection:
-With You - Heather Brown – USA
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11:30 TRANSLATION AND MUTATION (shorts program)
-Morning Shadows - Rita Cruchinho Neves – PORTUGAL
-Sunny Talk - Bing-Chi Wu – TAIWAN
-Trouble with Johnny - Paul Echeverria – USA
-Cosmic Quest - Paul Baker – USA
-Vanitas Variation 4 - Tim Sullivan – USA
-Easy for You to Say - Jonathan Kiefer –USA
-See Me: A Walk Through London’s Gay Soho, 1994 and 2020 -
Lee Campbell – UK
-A Landscape to be Invented - Josh Weissbach - USA
1:15-1:30 pre-screening* selection: Crude Aesthetics - Isik Kaya, Thomas Georg Blank – USA
1:30 PATTERN RECOGNITION (shorts program)
-Phase II - Kelly Sears – USA
-When I Close My Eyes I See Everything - Alexandre Alagôa – PORTUGAL
-Pulse - Jason F Bernagozzi, Debora A Bernagozzi – USA
-Why Are You Image Plus? - Diogo Baldaia – PORTUGAL
-Abalone Point, 129,600° View - David Baddley – USA (Utah)
-Fiddler’s Green - Tao Delport, Alexandre Jamin – FRANCE
-Milk Trucks - Brian Staker – USA (Utah)
-Flesh Ballet - Frederick Kroetsch, Kasie Campbell, Daniel Ennett, David Baron – CANADA
-Inundada – Michelle Trujillo - USA
3:00: YOU’LL NEVER KNOW – Robin Aubert – CANADA
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* Q: What is a “pre-screening selection”?
A: Arrive early and take in some video art!
Experimental media works often require different viewing environments. Some work might be theater-oriented and some work is more gallery-oriented. So we chose to approximate a gallery screening room by creating a somewhat looser environment to view certain works. Take time to (quietly) meet your friends, find your seat, and settle in while enjoying video art / art film selections on the big screen.
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