Presented by Central Productions
Tickets $11 General Public, $10 Students, Seniors, and Brattle Members | No Passes
Central Productions is excited to present the 10th installment of its annual Boston Cinema Census—a showcase of the most interesting and innovative works produced by local filmmakers. The Boston Cinema Census is one incredibly dynamic night of programming. In the true spirit of a census, this screening presents the strongest locally made narrative, experimental, documentary, and animation! The Boston Cinema Census comes but once a year, so be sure to join us for this entertaining and enlightening evening.
Here’s the lineup:
Willy the Waffle, 4 Minutes 43 Seconds, Narrative/Animation
Directed by John MacDonnell, 20010
On the set of an all-breakfast music video, shoot the French Toast has attention issues, you might want to hold the butter, and our hero Waffle can’t seem to get a thing right. We’re sure antics like this would not happen on an all-dinner music video shoot!
If I Go, 10 Minutes, Narrative
Directed by Erika Street, 2009
Loosely based on Araby by James Joyce, Amy hopes that a certain store clerk will be the break in small town monotony she’s been searching for. If I Go is a delicate story touching on our innate search for escape and self-fulfillment.
66/Ch. 20-23, 8 Minutes, 45 Seconds, Documentary/Experimental
Directed by Kevin McCarthy, 2011
In what could appear as two separate and distinct films, voices are overheard during a commute on the bus; voices overheard during a channel graze through the death valley of the basic cable bandwidth. Often casually dismissed, when joined together in 66/Ch.20-23 these moments of ephemera become something more permanent.
The Final Sentence, 6 Minutes, 42 Seconds, Narrative
Directed by J.P. DiSciscio, 2010
A writer, holed up in a remote cabin, argues with his agent as he struggles to finish his seemingly endless novel while unseen creatures lurk in the shadows outside his window. Is he crazy, or will he be eaten alive by these beasts?
White House, 4 Minutes 25 Seconds, Narrative
Directed by Jared Katsiane, 2011
One lazy summer afternoon on a beach in Boston, two boys try to prove to each other that they can swim all the way to the white house in the distance.
Meer, 4 Minutes 25 Seconds, Experimental
Directed by Robert Todd, 2010
Bleeding between black+white and color, water, wood, and a shimmering reflection of the sun, Meer is a mesmerizing study of what a camera can do under certain control. Marks made in a sea of refracting reflections.
Bridges : Blocks, 7 Minutes, Experimental
Directed by Robert Todd, 2010
Bridges between blocks of space, figures in motion, planes holding us, taking us, spanning and obscuring the built environment: canyons spanned between city-spaces.
A Crecer Como Una Persona, 7 Minutes, 24 Seconds, Documentary
Directed by Bryan De Leon, 2010
Sometimes the search for the American dream gets derailed. The English translation of the title means “to grow like a person.” This is just one of the responses from a homeless father responding to questions from his son, the filmmaker in this touching personal documentary.
When Mooninites Attack, 4 Minutes, 3 Seconds, Animation
Directed by Dave Gordon, 2010
An animated satire takes us back to every Bostonian’s most embarrassing moments of national attention: the response to the 2007 Mooninite bomb scare, based in part on the Internet meme “All Your Base Are Belong to Us.”
Failure Means A Drowning Death, 16 Minutes, 13 Seconds, Narrative
Directed by J.P. DiSciscio, 2010
With a plot as simple and twisted as you would find in an “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” three sick old men are waiting to die in a hospital room with a single window and only one spot in the room can see outside. Bitterness and hatred consume one of the men, who desperately wants the view to the outside world.
Boston Cinema Census
Presented by Central Productions
Buy Tickets
Tickets $11 General Public, $10 Students, Seniors, and Brattle Members | No Passes
Here’s the lineup:
Willy the Waffle, 4 Minutes 43 Seconds, Narrative/Animation
Directed by John MacDonnell, 20010
On the set of an all-breakfast music video, shoot the French Toast has attention issues, you might want to hold the butter, and our hero Waffle can’t seem to get a thing right. We’re sure antics like this would not happen on an all-dinner music video shoot!
If I Go, 10 Minutes, Narrative
Directed by Erika Street, 2009
Loosely based on Araby by James Joyce, Amy hopes that a certain store clerk will be the break in small town monotony she’s been searching for. If I Go is a delicate story touching on our innate search for escape and self-fulfillment.
66/Ch. 20-23, 8 Minutes, 45 Seconds, Documentary/Experimental
Directed by Kevin McCarthy, 2011
In what could appear as two separate and distinct films, voices are overheard during a commute on the bus; voices overheard during a channel graze through the death valley of the basic cable bandwidth. Often casually dismissed, when joined together in 66/Ch.20-23 these moments of ephemera become something more permanent.
The Final Sentence, 6 Minutes, 42 Seconds, Narrative
Directed by J.P. DiSciscio, 2010
A writer, holed up in a remote cabin, argues with his agent as he struggles to finish his seemingly endless novel while unseen creatures lurk in the shadows outside his window. Is he crazy, or will he be eaten alive by these beasts?
White House, 4 Minutes 25 Seconds, Narrative
Directed by Jared Katsiane, 2011
One lazy summer afternoon on a beach in Boston, two boys try to prove to each other that they can swim all the way to the white house in the distance.
Meer, 4 Minutes 25 Seconds, Experimental
Directed by Robert Todd, 2010
Bleeding between black+white and color, water, wood, and a shimmering reflection of the sun, Meer is a mesmerizing study of what a camera can do under certain control. Marks made in a sea of refracting reflections.
Bridges : Blocks, 7 Minutes, Experimental
Directed by Robert Todd, 2010
Bridges between blocks of space, figures in motion, planes holding us, taking us, spanning and obscuring the built environment: canyons spanned between city-spaces.
A Crecer Como Una Persona, 7 Minutes, 24 Seconds, Documentary
Directed by Bryan De Leon, 2010
Sometimes the search for the American dream gets derailed. The English translation of the title means “to grow like a person.” This is just one of the responses from a homeless father responding to questions from his son, the filmmaker in this touching personal documentary.
When Mooninites Attack, 4 Minutes, 3 Seconds, Animation
Directed by Dave Gordon, 2010
An animated satire takes us back to every Bostonian’s most embarrassing moments of national attention: the response to the 2007 Mooninite bomb scare, based in part on the Internet meme “All Your Base Are Belong to Us.”
Failure Means A Drowning Death, 16 Minutes, 13 Seconds, Narrative
Directed by J.P. DiSciscio, 2010
With a plot as simple and twisted as you would find in an “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” three sick old men are waiting to die in a hospital room with a single window and only one spot in the room can see outside. Bitterness and hatred consume one of the men, who desperately wants the view to the outside world.