Take this year's entry of “Kudzu Vine” by Josh Gibson of Durham. Josh, the Assistant Director of the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image at Duke, takes a closer, hypnotizing look at the South's pesky invasive species that seems to be ever-climbing, ever-coiling and as everlasting as Tuck himself. Another Durhamite, D.L. Anderson, captures the many legends surrounding Johnson County's Percy Flowers in “Mr. Percy's Run.” Percy was a kingpin among moonshiners during the '50s and '60s and was rumored to have made over one million dollars per year with his moonshining business.
Other productions by Durham residents include Jim Kellough's "Red Rocks" and Jennifer Deer's "The Strange Beauty Aural Fixation," an all-audio listening session in which audiences get to experience an assortment of cutting-edge audio art, documentary and experimental works in a dark room with strangers. The festival features other North Carolina artists from Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Flat Rock and Charlotte, as well as filmmakers from as far away as Cologne, Germany.
Durham filmaker and collector Tom Whiteside, known for Durham Cinematheque's summer movie shows in Durham Central Park, also presents a three-screen, 16mm film program entitled "FILMISTORY.2" on Thursday. Featuring a variety of historical events and happenings on films by more than one filmmaker, many of which are more than 100 years old, the program is "ultimately, about how we watch motion pictures," Tom says.
The festival begins on Thursday at 8:15pm at Manbites Dog Theater, 703 Foster St., with the 1921 Winsor McCay animated silent film "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet," with live musical score performed by Chapel Hill band Felix Obelix. Wendy Spitzer of Felix Obelix composed an original score for the film with Triangle music legend Billy Sugarfix. The films keep rolling until Saturday.
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