Black Maria festival is back, set to feature Mack
Print Report an Error ShareA journey between Pakistan and India, a 104-year-old church pianist, a pinball rolling around Pittsburgh, Pa., and a two-headed fish will all grace the silver screen as part of the 2011 Black Maria Film Festival’s 90-minute program of 10 short films, to be screened at Dartmouth this Friday at 7 p.m. in Loew Auditorium.
“With short film, you can pack in so many great things,” Hopkins Center Film Manager Sydney Stowe said. “People love to be entertained in short pieces — we all love to watch ads — and this is a best-of series.”
Now in its second year at Dartmouth, this year’s lineup includes film professor Jodie Mack’s experimental film “Yard Work is Hard Work” (2008), which has received one of the festival’s coveted first prize Jury’s Choice Selection awards. Mack, who is teaching “Handmade Strategies for 16mm Film” this term, will present her film and the nine others in the program on Friday night.
“Black Maria has a long history of quirky, fine filmmaking,” Mack said. “To be included with this group of people is astonishing.”
“Yard Work is Hard Work,” a 28-minute animated musical, is Mack’s first major film, she said. The film, which took Mach two years to complete, follows a pair of newlyweds as they renovate their house. When mortgage rates escalate and the newlyweds’ relationship becomes increasingly contentious, the wife enters a sustainability contest in Better Homes and Gardens magazine to win $50,000.
“It’s a musical comprised of eight songs that is animated with paper cutouts from discarded magazines, things that I found in the trash and domestic objects,” Mack said.
Stowe said the turnout for last year’s Black Maria was smaller than she had hoped, but she was persuaded to bring back the series because of Mack’s involvement this year.
“Mack is just a force,” Stowe said. “I just think she’s so cool. I mean, she shoots on 16 [mm], which is just a dinosaur type. As soon as we knew [Mack] was involved, and one of hers was a winner, we just thought, this is absolutely kismet.”
Stowe also ascribed last year’s low attendance to the festival’s publicity posters, which displayed stills from “The Sneeze,” one of the earliest motion pictures produced by Thomas Edison’s Black Maria studio, the festival’s namesake. This year, posters for the festival display stills from the shorts coming to Dartmouth.
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