you thRill me – Phil Docken (Minneapolis, Minnesota)This film is a montage that in a very oblique way suggests a narrative.&nbsp;So, one hopes it is engaging one’s intuition rather than, say, cognition.&nbsp;Coming from the world of visual art, I embrace the imperative that visual art is a sovereign language. Ideally, a person reacts to a painting free of instructions, information&nbsp;or&nbsp;intent on the part of the artist.&nbsp;The painting speaks to you … or it doesn’t.&nbsp;Information accompanying a work of art corrupts the moment one becomes engaged with the art.&nbsp;While i was working on you thRill me, I was thinking: “ this is either a baroque fairy tale or a drawing.“ 2023; 16 min.

you thRill me

This film is a montage that in a very oblique way suggests a narrative.

Shitfaced – Jack E.K. Collier (Shoreline, Washington)An aspiring artist attempts to sketch her boyfriend only to find the dissatisfaction in her own work does more harm than good. 2023; 4 min.

Shitfaced

An aspiring artist attempts to sketch her boyfriend only to find the dissatisfaction in her own work does more harm than good.

Roses, Pink and Blue - Julia Yezbick (Detroit, Michigan)An elegy for a lost balloon. 2023; 4 min.

Roses, Pink and Blue

Elevator to Stardom – Danny Plotnick (San Francisco, California)Crackling with the energy of a 1980s punk rock, seat-of-the-pants, totally wired DIY production, Elevator to Stardom is a reminder of how films got made back in the day. Come up with an idea, use the small footprint and immediacy of Super 8, and knock out a crowd-pleaser in a month’s time. Grain-be-damned, thread up the projector, and let’s get viewing.&nbsp;Starring: Myles Marquez, Cencere Baker, Chris Rama, Ava Klubberud, Ray Wilcox, Bill Daft and Danny Plotnick.2023; 8 min. &nbsp;

Elevator to Stardom

Crackling with the energy of a 1980s punk rock, seat-of-the-pants, totally wired DIY production, Elevator to Stardom is a reminder of how films got made back in the day.

George – Gregg Chilingirian (London, England)Momentarily distracted from his existential crisis by the enigmatic Kiyoni, 30-year-old George is suddenly forced to confront his past in an attempt to process a life-altering event. 2023; 11 min.

George

Momentarily distracted from his existential crisis by the enigmatic Kiyoni, 30-year-old George is suddenly forced to confront his past in an attempt to process a life-altering event.

The Rocket Movies – Carl Weingarten (Alameda, California)Filmmaker and musician Carl Weingarten recounts growing up in St. Louis in the 1970s and his teenage hobby of shooting aerial movies with a Super8 camera mounted on top of model rockets. Decades before video cameras, GoPros and Drones, the film shows vintage Super8 footage and photographs, all shot, developed and edited with music composed by Weingarten for his DIY NASA inspired rocket launches and regional aerial photography explorations. 2023; 9 min.

The Rocket Movies

Filmmaker and musician Carl Weingarten recounts growing up in St. Louis in the 1970s and his teenage hobby of shooting aerial movies with a Super8 camera mounted on top of model rockets.

Silent chirping of invisible Digits – Vera Sebert (Austria)Like a single film frame, insects flash for the fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision again. In between their flickering body fragments, the film shows undefinable voids. What can be seen when familiar filters of vision and the narratives associated with them are missing? 2023; 10 min.

Silent chirping of invisible Digits

Like a single film frame, insects flash for the fraction of a second, only to immediately withdraw from the field of vision again.

how to outline grief – Kym McDaniel&nbsp;(Milwaukee, Wisconsin)Different water worlds - sea, snow, tears, bodies - collide as grief is poetically explored through movement and landscape. In English, Korean, subtitled. 2023; 6 min.

how to outline grief

Errors and Trials – Brooke Pruitt (Pharr, Texas)Errors and Trials is a 13-minute experimental project shot on Kodak Super 8 mm film. The audio is weird, strange, unique, and original. The film does not have a narrative story. Errors and Trials was recorded in Pharr, Texas; a park in Edinburg, Texas; and at South Padre Island, Texas. 2023; 13 min.

Errors and Trials

Errors and Trials is a 13-minute experimental project shot.

Lager Hogger – David Thomas Dibble (Hanford, California)Trains! Libations! Super 8! Isn't that what model railroading is all about? 2023; 2 min.

Lager Hogger

Trains! Libations! Super 8! Isn't that what model railroading is all about?

In a reconstruction of his father's death, the director combines animation, live action and photogrammetry, among other techniques. This intensely personal film deals with the universal topic of loss in a way that shows the power of contemporary artist animation and pushes the medium to its limits.

artifacts of you, artifacts of me.

Kristin dan Kuching Kuchingnya – Michael Kam (Singapore)Shunned by her family, a 60-year-old trans woman seeks solace and balance between her faith, her identity and her beloved cats. 2023; 6 min.

Kristin dan Kuching Kuchingnya

Shunned by her family, a 60-year-old trans woman seeks solace and balance between her faith, her identity and her beloved cats.

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The 42nd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on the weekends between January 26-February 18, 2024. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date and begin at 12 Midnight Eastern USA time. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person screenings. The in-person screenings will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 5PM or 7PM on their show date.  General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program.  

Welcome to the Spring 2024 New Jersey Film Festival! The 42nd Annual Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays between January 26-February 18. The Festival will be presenting the Festival online VOD as well as doing in-person screenings. 

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