, which shows off the film's puppet animation featuring cardboard figures apparently colored in with crayons.
author Heather Chaplin, on the same subject. Slamdance, by the way, hit the indie gaming thing first.
, the creation of which he documented in online diaries. Hard to tell, based on the catalog description, exactly what this film's about -- something about an ice cream shop inhabited by evil forces -- but it's playing in Sundance's Midnight section, so expect full-throttle insanity. If Searchlight or Miramax don't pounce on it, can we expect a serialized version on the web?
, Shu Lea Cheang asks cell phone users to help script and shoot a DIY "soap-travaganza," to be shown at the festival's conclusion.
, finished in 1986 but forgotten by all but completists. Its subjects, Exene Cervenka (pictured) and John Doe, can take credit for kick-starting pop-punk in the United States.
, with screenings Jan. 22 and 24.
as "an eclectic mix of melancholy and magic."
A scene that's bound to become increasingly rare in Park City: A runner hustles a 35-mm print into the Egyptian Theatre, Sundance's signature venue. This year, more than 80 of the festival's 200 feature films will be exhibited digitally, a remarkable number given the stigma attached to made-on-video movies just a few years ago. Though viewers were buzzing -- some skeptical, some curious -- when Sundance first introduced digital projection in 1999, a few years from now Sundance screenings that happen on old-fashioned celluloid will probably be the ones raising eyebrows.
, seems intended for the big screen, using interviews with scientists and astronauts and previously unseen NASA footage to tell the triumphant story of the Apollo space program.
, the first film Shaye's directed in 17 years, was adapted from a short story by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner.
investigates the ongoing genocide in Sudan.
, starring Carrie-Anne Moss and Billy Connolly, imagines useful zombies that, thanks to an ingenious invention by a megacorporation, are transformed into maids, nannies and food servers.
) of a sheltered boy who gets hooked into the world of filmmaking.
