$24.03

eaten by Michael Almereyda.

film must:
-explore the ever changing textures of film and video stocks.

Almereyda’s films include Twister (1989), Another Girl Another Planet (1992), Nadja (1994), The Rocking Horse Winner (1997), Hamlet (2000), This So-Called Disaster (2002), Happy Here and Now (2003), William Eggleston in the Real World (2005), Paradise (2009), and The Ogre's Feathers (2011). He has written for the New York Times, Artforum, Bookforum, The Believer, and The Criterion Collection. He is the editor of two books: Night Wraps The Sky: Writings By and About Mayakovsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) and William Eggleston for Now (Twin Palms, 2010).

commissioned at Veselka, New York, New York. cinemad visa #57

$31.15

eaten by Brad Barnes.



film must:


-incorporate the beauty of an automobile.

Brad and Todd Barnes have been making movies together for 10 years. Their short film, We Todd Did, screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, followed by Choked, another short, which screened in 2005. Their first feature HOMEWRECKER won the "Best of NEXT" award at Sundance in 2010.



commissioned at Coco Roco, Brooklyn, NY. cinemad visa #56

$29.79

eaten by Alex Ross Perry.

film must be a portrait of a flower.

Alex Ross Perry was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1984. He graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2006. But really, he got his education working at the legendary video store Kim’s Video in Manhattan. His first feature film, IMPOLEX, premiered at the CineVegas Film Festival in 2009, and played at nearly a dozen festivals worldwide, winning the award for Best Foreign Film and Best Foreign Actor at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in Australia. THE COLOR WHEEL is his second feature film and playing theaters across the country.

colorwheelmovie.com
commissioned at Brite Spot, Echo Park, CA. cinemad visa #55

$38.47

eaten by Vanessa Renwick.

film must:
-involve a horse track
-minimal score

An artist by nature, not by stress of research. She puts scholars to rout by solving through Nature's teaching problems that have fretted their trained minds. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders. She is a naturalist, born, not made : a true barefoot, cinematic rabblerouser, of grand physique, calm pulse and a magnetism that demands the most profound attention.

www.odoka.org

commissioned at St. Francis Fountain, San Francisco, CA. cinemad visa #54

$45.45

eaten by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher.

film must:

-touch on the world of expectation (either high or low)

Michael Palmieri is a director, cinematographer, and editor. His first documentary feature October Country was a co-directing effort with Donal Mosher that won the grand jury prize for best US documentary at Silverdocs and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for best documentary in 2009. He has directed music videos for Beck, The Strokes, Belle and Sebastian and many others, and his film and video collaborations include work with film and fine artists Christopher Doyle, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Adrian Paci and Tauba Aeurbach. He has been a guest lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Art and at the Balkan film program in Kosovo and is an adjunct professor of film at CCA in San Francisco.

Donal Mosher is a photographer, writer, and musician. His photo documentary work inspired his collaborative directing of October Country with Michael Palmieri. His visual work has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, Portland, and San Francisco’s SF Camerawork. His fiction and non-fiction writings have appeared in Instant City, Satellite, Frozen Tears, Still Blue – An Anthology of Working Class Writing, Life as We Show it – Writings On Film, and the Lamba Award winning Portland Queer Anthology. He is also a principle subject of Robert Arnold’s documentary film “Key of G,” which focuses on life and work with a severely disabled young man.

www.michaelpalmieri.com/
www.donalmosher.com/

 commissioned at Boogaloos, San Francisco, CA. cinemad visa #53

$25.23

eaten by Destin Daniel Cretton

film must:
-teach us about Hawaii

Destin Daniel Cretton was born and raised in Maui, Hawaii where he spent three summers picking pineapples in the fields near his home. He's written and directed four award-winning short films, including SHORT TERM 12. His first feature I AM NOT A HIPSTER played the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

commissioned at Brite Spot, Echo Park, CA. cinemad visa #52.

$45.74

eaten by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck.


film must:
address the issue of free nachos.
find some magic realism.
film real people.

Robert Machoian, is a filmmaker. He graduated from Cal State Monterey Bay in 2007, and is currently getting an MFA in Studio Art at UC Davis. Robert is a California based artist. His work has shown around the world including, London International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and Athens International Film and Video Festival.

Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, is a filmmaker. He graduated from Cal State Monterey Bay in 2009. Rodrigo is a California based artist. His work has shown around the world including, London International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and Athens International Film and Video Festival.


www.433pictures.com

commissioned at Brite Spot, Echo Park, CA. cinemad visa #51.

Chicago 2011

New year! Lunchfilms coming to Block Cinema at Northwestern:

Thursday, May 5, 7:00pm
http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/block-cinema/shorts.html

Summer 2010 (so far)

April 23: Krakow, Poland, 
at Bunkier Sztuki, part of the Off + Camera Film Festival

May 8: Providence, RI, at AS220

poster designed and screenprinted by Jean Cozzens (http://www.secretdoorprojects.org)

June 18: Rochester, NY, at The George Eastman House

Northwest Tour

thanks so much to these venues - 

Northwest Tour:
Seattle, WA: Northwest Film Forum, March 13 

Bellingham, WA: Pickford Theater, March 20

Portland, OR: Living Room Theaters, March 27
homemade poster by Randy Walker

Duluth!
Zinema 2, starting March 19, weeklong run
poster by Tim Massett




thanks to Chicago Filmmakers and FLEX (Gainesville) for recent cool shows

Lunchfilm Spring Tour 2010

Lunchfilm is going on tour starting in January, including some brand new Lunches.

Coming to Bellingham, Chicago, Duluth, Portland and Seattle - specific dates TBA

Thanks so much to AFI, UC San Diego, Univ of Arizona and Denver U for great shows.

If you have a cool movie theater, microcinema, film class or warehouse with a projector and chairs, lemme know if we can do a show there:

filmplante@gmail.com

Lunchfilm Echo Park review

Bad Lit gave the Lunchfilm menu a wonderful review:

http://www.badlit.com/?p=2651