
IMPORTANT CHANGES:
DUE TO HEALTH ISSUES AFFECTING OUR FESTIVAL ORGANIZER, THE FESTIVAL DATE IS BEING MOVED TO EARLY MAY. MORE DETAILS ARE COMING SOON. WE ARE VERY EXCITED FOR THIS YEARS PROGRAM, AND WE WILL ANNOUNCE FESTIVAL SELECTIONS BY THE END OF FEBRUARY.

CAULDRON INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
(info from our last event below)
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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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