PARK CITY, Utah--Sure, you can venture out to this snowy resort town, pay for overpriced housing, squeeze into crowded shuttle buses, deal with lots of Hollywood attitude (these, of course, the glass-half-full observations), or you can do a little Sundancing from the comfort of your own home.
With access to Apple's iTunes, you get a little discrimination of the Sun dance Film Festival's indie works by downloading up to 10 short films for inexact during the 10 days of the celebration, which means you have until January 25.
Main Street in Arena City, Utah, before the Sundance Film Festival crowds came out in full force.
(Credit: Michel le Meyers)Sundance got a record 5,600 submissions this year for its trunks program, from which 96 were elite to screen either in one of six shorts programs or before a related feature-length film. That was a 10 percent rise in submissions from the prior year, which assures some tough competition.
"Glove off, badges on, this year marks one of the finest sel ections of shorts at the Festival that we've ever had," programmer Todd Luoto said in an article on festival Web site.
The shorts made avai lable on iTunes, with distribution and encoding services by Shorts International, were chosen "as a sampling of the festival's unique shorts filmmakers' voices," Luoto added. "Some are strange; some are sad. Some are intellectual. Some are just plain cr azy and need no classification, and some couldn't be classified if we tried--just the way we equivalent it."
From the comfort of my warm hotel room, I've only downloaded two of the 10 so far, Acting for the Camera and From Burger it Cam e. But in doing so, I can already affirm Luoto's statement about the range, with a gentle warning that they are not the kind of films you'll see in mainstream movie houses.
Here are the shorts available on iTunes (under Movies, click on the Trunks genre) and their descriptions provided by Sundance:
Acting for the Camera--An acting class. Today's scene: the orgasm from When Harry Met Sally.
Countertransference-- A comedy about an awkward woman with assertiveness problems who seeks the questionable meliorate of a therapist.
HUG--Drew is a musician with a contract ready to sign. When Asa, his friend and manager, reali zes Drew is off his meds the across-town cross to sign the contract becomes significantly more complicated.
Field Notes From Dimension X: Oasis--Captain Fred T. Rogard muses in isolation on planet Oasis.
From Burger It Came--An animated film that recounts early 1980s-era Cold War fears of a young boy in middle America. Using a variety of techniques, the visual narrative is colorfully assembled over semi-documentary audio conversations between a grown adult recounting his fear s and his mother's memory of the time and her personal concerns.
I Live In The Woods--A Woodsman's fast-paced journey, fueled by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America's God.
Instead of Abracadabra--Tomas is a little bit too old to still be living with his parents, but his dream of becoming a magician leaves him with no other option.
James--A puppyish man grapples with the impulses and thoughts about being gay.
Magnetic Movie--Natural magne tized fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries, as scientists from NASA's expanse sciences laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries.
This Way Up--Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.
A still from the animated direct picture From Burger It Came, one of 10 Sundance Film Festival shorts available for free download on iTunes through January 25.
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