...It's here! That's right, the annual Ghoul A Go-Go contest, where they find the best female rock band in the country! Each year the winner of the contest goes on to have a number-one hit song. But there's one problem: the groups always seem to disappear and are never heard from again! Is it just a case of one-hit wonders?? Whatever it is, it's not deterring The Darlings or The Soultanglers, two of the cutest/toughest rock bands going! And they're both staying at the Whitewood Mansion, which may or may not be haunted. Is there a diabolical plan a-brewing? Can two female rock bands spend the night together in a haunted house without driving each other crazy? It's a spook fest! It's a musical! It's a haunted shindig! Whatever you call it... It's A Haunted Happenin'! From the creator of THE GIRLS FROM H.A.R.M.! (MCF 2000).

Can ear-splitting improvisational noise be considered "Christian music"? North Carolina musician Scotty Irving certainly thinks so. He builds instruments out of crutches and hockey masks, bangs the ground with hammers, and generally cranks it up for the Lord.

Chris came to DC with big dreams... but walking other people's dogs wasn't one of them. Making the most of life's twists and turns, Chris shows us the comical, cute, and downright disgusting events in a day in the life of a dog walker.

In the year 2001, there were 236 confirmed Bigfoot sightings in the U.S. There were only 12 confirmed Axl Rose sightings. This short film is a collection of actual eyewitness accounts from people who have spotted this reclusive rock star in recent years.

A look at the "Clown Prince of Progressive Metal Drumming", Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy. The story of one man's struggle with his own ridiculousness against the need to rock out, told entirely through Mr. Portnoy's personal home video footage. One of several new pieces from Jason Woliner (GARDENER III: REVENGE - MCF 2000).

Archie McNally is known as the "greatest Pittsburgh Steelers fan ever" because of his daring exploits during the 1979 AFC Championship game when - using a suit of his own construction - he attempted to fly to heaven to visit his dead father. A new piece from the team that bought us AIRPLANE GLUE (MCF 2001) and VERT REMIXED (MCF 2000).

A factual retelling of the day Elvis met Nixon. From the same camp that bought us THE COLLEGIANS ARE GO!!! (MCF '99), MONDO FORD (MCF 2000), and the long-awaited CREEPEES VS. ROBOT NUMBER TWO).

While confined to a psychiatric ward at age 50, "Richart" Tracy made this discovery: "If you want to get out of the hospital - start making art like this. They will get rid of you - fast!" This documentary takes a trip through his "Art Farm" yard, his art, his methods and mind (not to mention what he hides in his basement).

Tag rants for the camera in this handful of short snippets from the Urbankitchen series.

Bingo is a cat with a dream. One of several new animations from the maker of last year's WONDERMAN and MONKEYMAN RULES.

Animals in spinning houses engage in small domestic adventures, their lives connected by a phone line.

Sing along with your favorite fast food clown who knows that hamburgers grow on trees! An early short from the creator of BOOBIE GIRL, who was recently commissioned to design a t-shirt for They Might Be Giants based on the style of MEATCLOWN.

Imprisoned in a cold institution, a childlike man depends upon his only friend for solace. When his mundane existence is briefly interrupted by an unexpected event, the man finally understands what freedom means. Now the question is, will his friend allow him to have it?

"Why not take a modestly received low-budget Hollywood picture (Doug Limon's SWINGERS) and retell a scene from it using 3D versions of our favorite superheroes? We asked ourselves that very question - and then smoked some more weed..."

Annoyed by his friends' repeated questions about his ex-girlfriend, a young man formulates an ingenious plan: he'll just tell them that she's dead! It allows him just the catharsis he needed... but he can't deny the fact that he still misses her terribly. Animated to the song by the punk group The Vandals, from their CD, "Hitler Bad, Vandals Good".

Marshmallow peeps run amok and overpopulate the earth. Never again will you look at these innocent Easter confections the same way.

A sequel to last year's WELCOME TO PURGATORY, here we return to Purgatory High School, where deceased rock stars attend classes. There, Jimi Hendrix gets career advice from his Guidance Counselor, and imagines himself as a dentist.

A baby squid and a lump of feta cheese fight to the death inside the stomach of a guy who's just trying to enjoy himself at a party.

Popsy and his gang, The Snacktime Players, present some helpful movie-going tips! But look out, kids - he's got a chemical imbalance in his brain!

"Utilizing sophisticated new "computer desktop technology", we have been able to painstakingly recreate a scene from the 1957 motion picture, "Twelve Angry Men", in the manner that it's creators had originally intended: With Robots."

A potato slips from the hands of a farmer and momentarily escapes its fate. Alone and exposed in the above ground world, the potato fights for survival and is given the gift of sight. Now it must come to realize the impermanence of its own existence.

A prime piece of extraterrestrial real estate will soon be a destination for interplanetary vacationers. All that remains to be done is clear Sherman's Planet of those annoying native life forms.

Santa is forced to cancel Christmas after he learns the shocking truth behind all the children of the world losing interest in toys... that is until Rudolph swoops in and saves the day! Using classic Xmas specials as more than just inspiration, this is more "sex for kids" fun from the same folks who gave us last year's LOSING YOUR CHERRY.

"Zen meets anarchy in an apocalyptic orgy of destruction". With a title like that, there's not much more we need to tell you, except that there's music by The Residents.

"In our time of national crisis, who can we turn to? Look to the Golden Arches, my friend. Look to the Golden Arches." A new one from a two-time MicroCineFest "Way Cool" Award winner (WHAT BOYS WANT - MCF 2000, STRIP MALL TRILOGY - MCF 2001).

A commentary on the box-like aspects of corporate day jobs. Made with hand processed, black & white Super 8 film.

Footage of a woman's take on the WTC attack is distorted through dubbing and re-dubbing the image off a TV screen.

A "bower" is an enclosed garden but also a medieval noblewoman's private chambers. EMBOWERED is a short re-telling of "The Lady Of Shalott", an exploration of the restrictive demands of feminine beauty. Shot on hand-processed 16mm, and later hand-colored.

"A filmic exploration of the texture of my hand with and without camera. With maintaining the hand/skin theme the methods of film production are changed. Hence not only is my hand shown in various ways but also different possibilities of filmic representation are discussed. For the sound, I audio-scanned my hand with the cartridge of a phono player. The resulting sounds were rearranged to fit the images." One of two new pieces from a filmmaker who let us project his blood last year (BLUTRAUSCH - BLOODLUST, MCF 2001).

Photographed over 3 hours during a Frederick, Maryland 'In The Streets' festival; the footage is condensed into 2 minutes and 45 seconds. It is a fast paced short film set to the industrial sounds of Skrol.

Built entirely from the eerie debris of late night television advertising, this piece takes multiple fragments from a week's worth of infomercials and pushes them together into a desperate video remix. A new one from Daniel Martinico (FIGHTLOOP, MOUNTAIN, WAVELENGTH - MCF 2001, OUT TO LUNCH - MCF '98).

For the woman who dreams of a flawless complexion, Kerry May is the answer. From beauty tips to advice on becoming a make-up salesperson, this video is a workshop for the obsessed.

An accumulation of 180 different perspectives of a bank's skyscraper. Each perspective takes just one frame. At first there is chaos, then certain systems of visual organization develop. The sound consists of a sample taken from some trash-movie. It's meaning is, "Our power is boundless and our means are inexhaustible". The film plays with the relationship between the words and the images creating different meanings in breaking the succession of the words. In doing so the film serves as an ironic documentary on Frankfurt.

Converting space into time: the space is the physical form of the sandwich, which is then sliced through, taking a picture of each slice, and transforming the sandwich into time. A linear video piece... and it looks kinda cool too!

Thirty-seven kinetic portraits, each 10 seconds in length, take the concept of light-painting photography and bring it to the realm of spontaneous animation. Beatbox included.

A man studying human detritus loses track of his purpose. A crisis ensues. RESOLUTION is an interesting commentary on filmmaking formats and the purposes they serve.

A surrealistic vision of the nature of the human brain, dealing with the relationship between rational thought and the subconscious mind.

A fusion of imagery and music, expressing an ever-changing flux. 35mm motion picture film was hand-painted & etched, and then physically bent, twisted, rotated and treated to a number of hands-on manipulations while the film was being digitized to video. The music was created from basic sounds that were digitally transformed and then layered, intercut, diced and threaded into a pulsating "spider web" design suggested by the visual imagery.

Zakery has something he wants to tell you about this particular piece. What he has to say is very important, so pay attention.

"WHAT ODERS THE FLOW takes the media's coverage of the September 11 event as a point of departure to employ an experiment in randomness, sound, and the visual, offering an interpretation outside of the media report. The project conjoins two components: a digital sound piece and two hand-manipulated short films. The sound piece was created by combining an audio recording made of the immediate uninterrupted television report of September 11, mixed and then intermittently cut with the original Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds"(What Orders the Flow an anagram). The sound element evokes a meditative state through the regular intermittence of the two broadcasts produced by inter-cutting two second splices. The two broadcasts take on several forms throughout the piece. They are (at times) easy to discern from each other; they reverse identities; evoke irony and coincidence; and fuse together to become something unified and altogether other. I am attempting to produce a new fiction."

"A man who likes robots in a sexy way buys a robot from the internet. Things go all wrong when he takes the robot in the shower."

Ever have one of those lifetimes where nothing seems to go right? Failing cartoon writer, Millard Mudd, had sunk deep into one. Living hermit-like in a decrepit house, and existing on an alcohol soaked diet, Mudd's world had collapsed. But one day everything changed when a stray dog named Lucky entered his life. You see, Mudd discovered Lucky was no ordinary dog - he could talk. What made Lucky invaluable was his ability to teach Mudd how to write sellable scripts again, but what made Lucky dangerous was his ability to get inside Mudd's head, turning the writer into a serial killer. A very dark comedy that is NOT for the easily offended.