2003 CONEY ISLAND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

Step right up and see the Spectacular, the Wonderous and the downright Odd. The CONEY ISLAND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL presents Freaks! Wonders! and Cinematic Curiousities! Two Thrilling Days! Eight Amazing Programs! Seventy-Five Sensational Films! indiefilmpage.com and Coney Island USA presented the 3rd annual CONEY ISLAND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Sat. Sept. 27th & Sun. Sept. 28th 2003 at the legendary Sideshows by the Seashore in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

SATURDAY SEPT. 27TH 2PM
Pinky Ted Bourne, Cry for Bobo David Cairns, Norman Patrick Dorian, American Audition Cameron Yates & Charlie Olsky, Supersound Tim Rogg & Matt Blandford, Sideshow Edie Faig, Toss of the Coin Patrick Steele, Footlong Gerry Beyer & Chris Patak, Tunanooda David Zackin, String of the Kite Michael Fallavollita. Click here
SATURDAY SEPT. 27TH 4PM
All Fall Down Allison de Fren, The Erl-King Hannes Rall, Common Cause Asako Aiba, For Food Garret Savage, The Rocks Mark Temme, Not Gone Steven Dovas, Crave Jennifer Ruff, Last Summer Seunghun Yu, Into Something Rich & Strange Rich Ragsdale, Aqua Burn Bill Breithaupt. Click here
SATURDAY SEPT. 27TH 6PM
S.U.V. LUV Colin Campbell, Devil Woman from, Outer Space Lilly Scourtis, eRATicate Ross Williams, The Exxon Valdettes Laura deNey & Charlotte Rademaekers, Shoe Stalkers Erin Randall, Razor Burn Shima Razavi, Short on Sugar Joe Anaya, Peeps Molly Schiot & Mariah Garnett, The Vest Paul Gutrecht, Looking Back S.B. Hunt, Hannah Can’t Swim Randall Good. Click here
SATURDAY SEPT. 27TH 8PM
Sister Windy: Revisionist Art History Bob Mataranglo, Let’s Meet Those People Daedalus Howell & Jerry Rapp, Something Smells Like Fish Peggy Wang, Bread & Circus Tim Gregoire, Night Trade Barbara Karpinski, Murder Act One Steven Warrington, The Rut Todd Klick, Foo Foo Dust Gina Levy & Eric Johnson Click here
SATURDAY SEPT. 27TH 10PM
Lift Off / Orbit Kevin Mutch, Explode This Car Matthew Drenik & Tom Campbell, Faking It? Rachael Crouthamel, Feast of Fools Robert Kleinschmidt & Tracey Waaka, Gentrifucked Scot Free, Mindtrix Kirk Christiansen, After An Autumn Day That Felt Like Summer Mark L. Feinsod, Weed Brandon Kane, Joe Strummer: Live at St. Ann’s Joly Click here
SUNDAY SEPT. 28TH 2PM
The Third Date Amy Barrett, The Regular Guy Fulvio Cecere, Deja Vu Nossah Kirt, The Littlest Cowboy Todd Sepp & Matthew Van Hoesen, Only Joking Michael Patrick Kelly, Coney Island Alligator Hunter Eric P. Sharkey, When Broomsticks Were King Jason Cusato Click here
SUNDAY SEPT. 28TH 4PM
This is John Jay Duplass, Branson: Musicland USA Peter Sillen, Plucked Daisy James Branscome, Comedy: The Other Black Gold Alicia Dattner, Reverand Vincent Anderson - Dear Lunatics Chris Cassidy, Poor Man’s Mermaid Stefanie Koseff, Food Chain Hyunjoung Kim, Ride Jason Wurm, So Many Women, So Little Hair Jon Rubin, Dead Sexy Jonathon Robinson Click here
SUNDAY SEPT. 28TH 6PM
Tom Hits His Head Tom Putnam, Curly Oxide - Welcome to the Millenium Chris Cassidy, Anomalous Humanite Sin Silva, Sledge Lance J. Reha, Kraqhaus Jeans Frank Harding, Bum Runner Steve Herold & Kurt Christiansen, Vic Thrill - Wailing Wall Chris Cassidy, Scrooge McDunk Brian Russo, Is It Time To Swap? Daedalus Howell & Jerry Rapp, Sonic Burlesque Chuck Statler Click here

3RD ANNUAL CONEY ISLAND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
CONGRATULATES THE AWARD WINNERS!
Special thanks to our award sponsors:
Wiselephant.com, Coney Island USA, This or That! & Carnival Knowledge

WINNER! BEST COMEDY
The Vest Paul Gutrecht
When a third grader gets teased for wearing a homemade vest her reaction leaves her with a lot of explaining to do (or not do) back at home. website
WINNER! BEST DRAMA
Hannah Can’t Swim Randall Good
Infatuated with a stranger on a train, Hannah writes anonymous letters arranging a rendezvous on her isolated island.
 
WINNER! BEST DOCUMENTARY
Aqua Burn
Bill Breithaupt
Aqua Burn creatively showcases the 2002 “Floating World” Burning Man Festival capturing the energy, spirituality and emotion of the annual event. The filmmaker employed time-lapse footage, enhancing the spectacular cinematic backdrop of the Nevada desert. website
WINNER! BEST ANIMATION
Sister Windy: Revisionist Art History Bob Mataranglo
Sister Windy is an animated parody of the BBC Series "Sister Wendy". This intrepid nun travels the world  searching out great art to share with her friends and viewers. In a humorous, tongue in check manner this video explores issues of nudity and sexuality in Fine art, religion and politics. Art history as you have never seen it before.
 
WINNER! BEST EXPERIMENTAL
Into Something Rich & Strange Rich Ragsdale
A dark and troubling trip through a sideshow at the end of the world. Assembled from snapshots, silver gelatin prints, polaroids, pinhole photos, Muybridge motion studies, sequential xerography, archival photos and computer generated textures to evoke a strange and distant past.
 
WINNER! BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Vic Thrill: Wailing Wall Chris Cassidy
Loosely based on the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the song is a cathartic scream of yearning to be free of all anxiety and inhibition. The video itself was a pressure release for the people that made it, not to let a lack of funds spoil their vision of doing something on par with major commercial productions, while having a blast doing it.
 
WINNER! BEST CONEY ISLAND FILM
Pinky Ted Bourne
'Pinky' places an endearing incarnation of Fellini's Gelsomina into a stop-motion animation. With only two dollars in her purse, our pink-haired heroine's search for the right food takes her through New York City to Coney Island, where the surprises begin.
 

 

Read comments from the filmmakers who participated in the 2003 festival here. Our thanks to all those who contributed photos to this gallery.

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