Woodstock Museum 16th Annual Film Festival 2015
Labor Day Weekend:

WOODSTOCK MUSEUM 16TH ANNUAL FREE FILM FESTIVAL 

Labor Day Weekend 2015

Opens Friday Sept. 4th at 7PM, each weekend night, and Monday Sept. 7th  from 12-6PM. 

Woodstock Museum, 13 (Charles) Bach Rd., Saugerties, NY 

FRI. SEPT. 4

7PM   OPENING CEREMONY featuring live music with Rock‘n Roll Therapist PAUL McMAHON at the outdoor café.

8PM   KEEP IT CLEAN A greasy, disgusting salesman dies in a clean freak's home. Then he has to figure out what to do with the body.

8:15   POVERTY, INC. with Gary Null in person. Examines the influence of corporate globalization, exposes the destructive nature of our modern financial system’s predatory policies as U.S. enters Third World status. Q&A

10:40   LITTLE VULVAH AND HER CLITORAL AWARENESS Animated sexual fantasies rouse the imagination of a young woman. From Denmark.

10:50   A PRIVATE MATTER  Reserved, young woman returns to her rural hometown accompanied by her outgoing partner in order to spend the weekend with her conservative family. From Australia.

SAT. SEPT. 5

7PM   TO PRISON FOR POVERTY   Most people in our jails & prisons do not pose a threat to public safety. They need help. These solutions move us away from obsessive arresting and incarceration.

7:15   MORTAL DILEMMA Drama erupts between three unrepentant men at a West Texas roadside café.

7:30 EARNING THE DAY   Visually imaginative comedy takes an entertaining look at self-criticism, and demonstrates the steps we can take to move out of our own morass to feel we have earned our day.

8:15   AMERICAN ROAD   Explores the mystique of the road in American culture with artistic, musical and literary resonances.  Q&A

10:30 BEES ‘N TREES   Armed with a chainsaw and harness, an arborist’s Zen-like approach rescues beehives from urban trees that are on the chopping block.

10:45   PETER YARROW IN HIS LIVING ROOM   Intimate concert with Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, his daughter Bethany & her partner Rufus.  Special appearance by Woodstock’s Rock ‘n Roll therapist Paul McMahon.  Q&A

12:15AM   HIDE THE SAUSAGE  Eddie "The Sausage" gets released from prison. He must avoid all the wrong people, stay out of sight, make amends with his daughter, and then leave the country.

SUN. SEPT. 6

7PM   ALISON & JEREMY is a sensitive portrayal of childhood friends who, like all of us, are seeking unconditional love and acceptance.

7:45   TWO LANDSCAPES A clash between the landscape the eye perceives and the one that’s deeply embedded in the mind. Q&A

7:50  FREEDOM A subtle ode to those whose cups runneth over and over and over and over and over and over and...  Q&A

8:15   THE LIFE & TIMES OF THOMAS THUMB JR., unlike any other man, has a giant thumb for a head and he'll do whatever it takes to achieve the American Dream.

8:30   CARNIVAL SURREAL SIDESHOW Comical, animated parody featuring strange and bazaar acts.  Cannes award winning animator. Q&A

8:50   YORKVILLE   Canada's version of Greenwich Village and Haight-Ashbury, draft dodgers mixed in with musicians, political activists, and curious Canadian as the 1960s counterculture grew.

10:20   TOTAL ANIMAL III   Submerged beings plasticized with sensual vibrations are breaking under destructive sounds. These creatures clot together in their oleaginous universe all the way to total annihilation.

10:25   CIRCUS SONG  A troupe of traveling performers reminisce and recreate their lives. From Brazil.

10:50   RHYTHMS OF THE BAUL 1000 year old tradition of music, religion and way of life by wandering, mystical minstrels of Bengal. 

11:15   WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS highlights recent cases where American government employees and contractors took to the media to expose fraud and abuse. In all cases the whistle blowing was to the detriment of their professional and personal lives. Features Edward Snowden & Daniel Ellsberg.

MON. SEPT 7

12PM   SUBSTANCE ABUSE   Solutions that are saving lives and money, keeping the public safer, and helping those with drug problems.

12:11   HOMELESSNESS   Addresses safety concerns and opens a window of opportunity for those living out on the street.

12:18   IT’S ALL ABOUT BREAKING THE WALL  We see a man in a room. He seems tense. Why? Is he waiting for something, that won’t come? Is it her? What are the sheets and pencils for?

12:27   DAUGHTER OF AN OCEAN   Remembering the story told by her mother, Suni learns to live her life with freedom, as her mother never did.

12:45   KARMU, A Place in the Sun     Auto mechanic by day and urban shaman by night,  Karmu welcomed anyone in need into his home, from drug addicts to Harvard professors.  Q&A

2PM   DANCING WITH THOSE SHOWTOONZ    An animated musical parody. Two couples compete for the grand prize. Q&A

2:40   FAREWELL TO FACTORY TOWNS   When factories left a typical New England mill town, art was brought in as a replacement.  Does it work? Q&A

4:15   POOP ON POVERTY Highlights a challenge faced by 2.5 billion people everyday – access to cooking fuel. It’s also a tribute to human ingenuity– turning animal waste into energy.  From India.

4:22   REQUIEM  An existential struggle to liberate ourselves from the grasp of matter. Illustrates love & pain, loneliness & connectedness, stagnation & progress.  Claymation.
           
4:28   INTERFACE A self-portrait made of assemblages investigates co-existing multiple digital identities. "The best interface is no interface."

4:32   ANXEYETY  Individuals from various backgrounds, gender identities, ages, professions, and levels of social anxiety/disorders are interviewed about eye contact.

4:39   THE GENESIS OF A SCULPTURE The work of art tells his story: of, being an artist, life in the studio, and his destiny.

4:50   I’VE JUST HAD A DREAM  Two girls. Two cultures. Two visions. A dream. The only thing that makes them different is how each one dreams.

Directions from Woodstock, NY: Rock City Rd, right on Glasco, left on W.
Saugerties Rd. 4.5 mi. to stop sign. Right then right on Bach Rd.
Take first left fork down a very long driveway.

From Saugerties: N.Y. Thruway 87 Exit 20 Saugerties. 2 mi. on Rte 212 towards Woodstock.
Right in Centerville on Blue Mtn. Rd. Go 1.5 mi. Bear left after Mountain View Deli. Go 1.5 mi.
Left on Bach Rd. First left fork down long driveway.

Full schedule: http://www.woodstockmuseum.org Tel: (845) 246-0600
Directions at http://www.woodstockmuseum.com/directions.html or GPS Woodstock Museum.
All are welcome to bring instruments.
Handicapped accessible.