Vault Two

In honor of our fifteenth anniversary, we have curated a selection of short films from the Full Frame vault, a title from each year of the festival. The fourteen shorts will screen in three separate programs.

Vault Two features Picture Day from the 2000 festival, Crow Film from the 2003 festival, The Intimacy of Strangers from the 2006 festival, and Lost Book Found from the 1998 festival. Films are listed in screening order. The total running time is 83 minutes.

Picture Day
Directed by Steven Bognar
2000 / US / 7 minutes
One school. 601 kids. 12 frames per kid. What do you get? This playful, funny parade of images reveals the range of possibilities contained in half a second’s worth of pictures.

Crow Film
Directed by Edward P. Davee
2002 / US / 20 minutes
Ubiquitous and much-maligned crows are transformed into stately, mysterious objects of beauty. This film captures the intricate rhythms and textures of the birds flying and pecking their way through their world and ours.

The Intimacy of Strangers
Directed by Eva Weber
2005 / UK / 20 minutes
Cellphone conversations have the ability to collapse the distinctions between public and private space. Intimate moments obliviously performed for strangers capture a love story of the modern age, transmitted for all to hear.

Lost Book Found
Directed by Jem Cohen
1996 / US / 36 minutes
Lost Book Found updates the venerable city symphony, but without the genre’s grandiose claims. Instead, this is more of a chamber piece; it starts as a personal documentary but then shifts from the private to the enigmatic.