2003 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY 8 PM: D.I.Y. OR DIE PROGRAM


Flatbush Ave.

Solar Panel Asses

Hollywood Operation

Hunter Dawson

Kraqhaus Jeans

eRATicate

Countdown

Part III

Working with Water, Dreaming of Water

D.I.Y. or Die

Flatbush Ave.
7:00 • P.A. Leonardo, Brooklyn NY
Rollin' down Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.

Solar Panel Asses
0:26 • Rusty Nails, Chicago IL
Los Angeles' infamous noise punk band The Locust play an ear and visual shattering mind bomb of a song in less than 30 seconds.

Hollywood Operation
1:00 • Michael Possert Jr., Los Angeles CA
A wacky board game where you get to perform cosmetic surgery on your favorite stars. But be careful, a wrong move on the board could be malpractice. Off-kilter humor in the style of a Seventies television commercial.

Hunter Dawson
10:00 • Andrew Dickson, Portland OR
A reality TV show application video for a wayward SoCal hombre of the same name, stuck hawking free postcards in the bars of Portland, OR. Survivor, Real World, or Fear Factor — it doesn't matter, he just wants to get on a show. Join him for a day in the life as he picks up ladies, tussles with rival postcard distributors, and comes clean about how he really feels about being transferred up north.

Kraqhaus Jeans: Plumber's Pants
0:40 • Frank Harding, NYC NY
A girl walks into a crowded club. She is the center of attention. Could it be because her ass is halfway out of her pants?

eRATicate
8:15 • Ross Williams, Seattle WA
Once upon a time, there was a girl and her rats, the rats were the girls only friends. They spent every moment together. Until one day, when the girl met a boy. They boy and the rats immediately hated each other. They all yearned for the girl's attention. Soon enough, the girl began to favor the boy. The rats were not pleased. They demanded revenge!

Countdown
4:15 • Stephen Marshall, NYC NY
A Guerrilla News Video cut to "Countdown," Beastie Boy Ad Rock's remix of Green Party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader's blistering critique of the news media and the current state of American politics.

Part III
2:10 • Beth O'Brien, Brooklyn NY
Primitive visual genetics.

Seventeen
3:30 • Ladytron, Los Angeles CA
Music video.

Shut The Fu**ing Camera Off!
11:00 • Robert C. Banks Jr., Cleveland OH
Exclusive footage! The first in a series of backstage and live videos from various Cleveland shows between 1990 and 1996. Classic bootleg interviews and mostly unused footage of many acts no longer performing, unauthorized and totally intimate.

Working With Water, Dreaming Of Water
3:30 • Stephanie Gray, Buffalo NY
A gloomy creepy surreal nighttime laundry scene where the familiar just doesn't seem right.

Application Counter
6:00 • P.J. Doran & Matthew Wascovich, Cleveland OH
Two artists combine spoken word and images defining Cleveland's post industrial, buck-toothed decay.

D.I.Y. or Die: How To Survive As An Independent Artist
55:00 • Michael W. Dean, Los Angeles CA
A collection of portraits and profiles from a group of underground icons and overlooked unknowns working in various media including print, film, graphic art, performance art, and music. The interviewees are all true mavericks that operate outside of any "studio system", are beholden to no one, and produce art regardless of a continuous paycheck.

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