CAULDRON INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL

MAY 6-9, 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.

Waiting Up To Meet The Wolf Director Anthony Carr

Trump Pinochet Director Gerald Habarth

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.

CLICK HERE FOR FULL FILM DESCRIPTIONS

WEDNESDAY MAY 6

--10:30 AM CULTURE/NATURE (shorts program 1)

Exotic Vector - Van McElwee USA

Unoriginal - Laura Herman USA

Driving The Neighborhood Dogs Crazy - Atomic Elroy USA

Sunny 16 Helsinki - Eve Le Fessant Cousso France

Feedback - Hüseyin Mert Erverdi Turkey

In the Noise of the Downpour - Oleksandr Stupak Ukraine

Soap is an Illusion (Dirt: Part One) - David Finkelstein USA

Under the Covers Girl - Tina Rose Rea Meister, Josie Elizabeth Meister USA

If They Really Exist - Hio Lam Lei Taiwan

--1:00 PM ON AND OF THE EARTH (shorts program 2)

DRIFT - Harper Austin USA

The Eye In Nothing - Michael Edwards USA

Sabbatical - Jack McCoy USA

Detours - Vida Guzmić Croatia

Gnosis - Adam Jaslikowski (Justin Sight) USA

The Story of The Cricket Queen - Natalie Peracchio USA

FORTUNA - Esther Hoareau Réunion

No Time of Deep Time - Eric Souther USA

Our Morals and Theirs - Salomé Aguilera USA

--3:30 PM OBJECT OF STUDY

Directed by Raúl Alaejos Spain

The shadow of anthropological objectivism haunts a clumsy director who experiments

methodologically and formally around the obscene act of filming native populations in

the northernmost village.
There, Robert Peary, an American explorer, thought more than 100 years ago that the only

way for a human being to reach the North Pole would be to have children with Inuit to

create a super-race that would combine Eskimo strength and Western clairvoyance.

In the footsteps of this extravagant theory walks this film essay in search of that

"super-race".

--5:00 PM ABOUT PALESTINE

CAULDRON PRESENTS A SET OF FILM WORKS THAT STAND IN

SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE. THIS PROGRAM IS STILL BEING

FINALIZED. MORE INFORMATION SOON!

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THURSDAY MAY 7

--10:15 AM DOWSING

Directed by Tim Feeney USA

Ten repetitive sonic interventions within the eroded landscapes of the Burren,

County Clare, Ireland.

--12:00 NOON CLAIMED TERRAIN (shorts program 3)

Alpine Tundra - Kathleen Rugh USA

Pictures of a Negative Chair - Magdalena Bermudez USA

The Rhythms of Pastspresnt - Alexandra Banhazl USA

Adulting - James Duesing USA

Custom Trailer Series: Austin Powers - Kelly Egan USA

Ashes to ashes - Sidney Gordon Canada

I Know These People - Ian O'Neill USA

Gan Tang, The Lake - Tianming Zhou China

Assets - Christine Lucy Latimer Canada

All of This Must Be Paid For - Gabi Rudin USA

Hurricane Season - Michelle Trujillo USA

Rectangle boundary - Enzo Cillo, Ambasce Italy

--2:00 PM INTERIOR/EXTERIOR (shorts program 4)

Death Is The Bridge - Stephen Mlinarcik USA

A Telephone for God - Nicky Tavares USA

A Weak & Panicked Animal - Jake Star Australia

No Matter What - Carolyn Lambert USA

Mirror - Director Nuno Serrão Portugal

Cosmic Impermanence - Heather Warren-Crow USA

"It is Not Only on Surface - ForrestFirePlasticCitySea" - Sara Koppel

Denmark

(green before "green") - Atticus Echeverria, Paul Echeverria USA

Shape Games - John Muse USA

They The People - Ryan Lewis USA

Riding Day - Michael Alexander Morris USA

Nihalgai - Colten Ashley USA

Inundation - Dominick Rivers USA

--4:30 PM I WONDER IF I'M SINGING WHAT YOUR'E THINKING ME TO SING

Directed by C. S. Nicholson Norway

I Wonder If I’m Singing What You’re Thinking Me To Sing is a solo concert by Michael Gira (of Swans) in a church somewhere. When the images and the audio, both purportedly from the concert, start deviating from what is likely

to have transpired, the film ceases to be the presentation of an experience, and becomes an experience all its own.

...before the film... Zover - Anne-Sarah Le Meur France

(this 8m short film will play before the feature)

--6:00 PM PARALLEL GHOSTS (CAULDRON "HORROR" PROGRAM)

A collection of films that address the supernatural and the speculative using genre-adjacent methods.

The Archivist is Dying - Esme Laam USA

Lych: The Corpse Road - David McNulty United Kingdom

Mammoth - Alexander Zoumadakis USA

Repertoire of Death - Guadalupe Arellanes USA

SPUDS - Vance Mellen USA

Autumnal Sleeps - Michael Higgins Ireland

In a remote rural estate house, a woman sleeps, she is alone. It’s a time not far from the dawn of the moving image, the obsessed and wealthy Dr. Epstein engineers a number of scientific experiments. He subjects his adopted children, Pete and Re-Pete, along with his darling flapper, Baby Dee, to his various scientific tasks. Things take a decidedly strange turn when Epstein makes a deal with some shifty-looking vagabonds. On doing so he opens a door to the unknown, ruptures the fabric of time and unleashes a shadow-like character bent on reducing all those he encounters to dust.

Photographed on expired 35mm film with a 50year old Soviet camera, Autumnal Sleeps takes inspiration from early silent cinema. The characters and the nature of performance resemble those from a roadshow attraction while highlighting the illusory power of voyeurism and exhibitionism. Like unrestored film of early cinema, the image flickers and the colours bleed creating a psychedelic sensation as one transported through a haunting industrial score broken up with poetic interludes that examine the deeper emotions of the characters.

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FRIDAY MAY 8

--10:30 AM THE DELLS

Directed by Nellie Kluz USA

THE DELLS observes the clash between fantasy and reality faced by international student workers newly arrived in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin – the self-described “Waterpark Capital of the World.” Coming from countries like Turkey, Romania, Jamaica, Thailand, and the Dominican Republic, these students land in the American Midwest via the State Department’s Summer Work Travel program. Issued temporary J-1 visas, they work low-paying jobs as lifeguards, housekeepers, and servers, living in dormitories tucked behind a glut of tourist attractions.

The film follows the rhythms of an ensemble cast of “J-1s” as they work, party, and cruise around town in taxis. Students weather the myriad headaches of making ends meet in the US – car troubles, job losses, long work hours – thanks to their friendships and youthful optimism. We see their hopes for a summer of American luck and prosperity rub up against their actual experiences, which are by turns disappointing, funny, and transcendent.