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 ANNOUNCING: UNDER THE PAVEMENT
New Works by Experimental Filmmaker Nara Denning
UNDER the PAVEMENT
A feature length compendium of five short films united
under a common theme of identity crisis in the modern era. Each story presents a conflict between inner and outer reality
that takes shape in the characters' dreams and interior lives. Here they will discover the true meaning of the conflict: an
obstacle to the soul’s expression on Earth. It is in this realm of the subconscious that they must confront the obstacle
and recreate themselves and their relationship to the world
 THE
PENDULUM HEART
A woman is a mask carver of her own changing identity, forever
driven to transformation by the "call of the heart." She fears for her heart's survival, as it is a fragile
vessel. Yet it demands fiercely, without apparent concern for its own safety. She tries to keep it safe by putting it
in the care of her lover, but discovers the same telltale signs of impermanence within the house of his own heart. This
is the trial of a winded spirit, a meditation on the evolution of identity and also an examination of the pendulum swing within
the secret heart of every woman and man.
Featuring CHRISTINE BONANSEA & CHRISTOPHER COMPARINI
Winds: ANDREW VOIGT
Audio Production: STOO ODOM & DESMOND SHEA
 DOGMATIQUE A
man questions the fabric of modern life. Like Pinocchio’s “Fun Land” in which little boys are transformed
into mules, he finds himself trapped within a system that transforms men into dogs. He desperately desires a "real"
life while at the same time his aversion to reality causes him to live like a shut-in, a post-modern American refugee.
He is graced by the moon, which taunts and follows him, inspiring howls of yearning and chaos throughout the city, which then
assumes the form of the "Blue Fairy" and shows him that the freedom he seeks is neither here nor there, but in the
realm of spirit. Featuring: WILL FRANKEN, MOMOS CHEESKOS, & PETER BONES
Music by: ALLISON LOVEJOY, MARCO VILLALOBOS, STOO ODOM, & WILLY THE MAILMAN
 THE NUN
A house of bitterness filled with frozen images of the past.
Joy cannot enter a house of perfect control. It's keeper is vexed by a young
girl, lost within the house, who disturbs the silence, reliving laughter and sadness almost forgotten. ...Shameful mistakes
of her youth are not acts of frailty to be disowned, but of innocence to be forgiven. Featuring: EMI
STANLEY & WILLY THE MAILMAN
Music by: CHARITH PREMAWARDHANA, STOO ODOM, & WILLY THE MAILMAN  STAR OF TYCHE
The Odyssey
retold with a self-made craft, a musical star of fate and a night of wine and dreams in the arms of a dubious siren.
In the morning she will have to return to the question of to whom her faith belongs. Featuring: JULIA ZEFFIRO, MARGARET BELTON, & WYLIE HUEY
Music by: FERENC TOBAK, LILLA SERLEGI, MARGARET
BELTON, MARCO VILLALOBOS, STOO ODOM, & WILLY THE MAILMAN  NARCISSUS
A woman escapes from the hazards of emotion in the quiet dreamland of her tiny attic. In her refuge
she clings to the simplicity and grace of her own reflection, which takes form as her only companion. Here there is
no compromise or risk, only self-love and self-possession. However, her sanctuary will not save her from the visitation
of shadows - knocking from her past: angry ghosts of the love she sacrificed for the life of a narcissist and the fears
that hold her captive.
Featuring: NIRMALA NATARAJ, DANIEL
"MONKEY" ROBERTS, & WILLY THE MAILMAN
Music by: CHARITH PREMAWARDHANA, STOO ODOM,
& WILLY THE MAILMAN
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