Shorts Program 1

Mr. Smith's Peach Seeds
USA, 2012, 12 minutes
Director: Stewart Copeland
Roger Smith is a man who can make anything out of a peach seed. MR. Smith's Peach Seeds explores his process and inspirations and presents a thoughtful portrait of a self-taught artist whose distinctive art is as much a part of his rural Southern landscape as it is a reection of it.
Mookie
The Netherlands, 2012, 19 mins
Director: Neske Beks
Nine year old Mookie is a secret agent stationed in Amsterdam, where he lives a life… Show more full of dreams,excitement and adventure. In everyday life, however, he's struggling with a strange blood disorder with a funny name: sickle-cell anemia. He never behaves like a sick little boy. Mookie isn't afraid of anything.
Just as I Remember
Canada, 2012, 17 minutes
Director: Andrew Moir
When Andrew Moir was four years old his father was told he had Als with two to five years to live. Now a filmmaker, Andrew finds a young family facing similar circumstances in an effort to re-experience his childhood and learn about his father's experience. Brad has Als and three young children. He faces a heartbreaking choice that will change his children's futures forever. This short documentary follows Brad and his family as they cope with the challenges of parenting in the face of this devastating disease, exploring it from Andrew's perspective.
Out of Body
USA, 2011, 4 minutes
Director: J. Christian Jensen
An unexpected look at an African American computer scientist and dancer who conspires against death and disease in an unusual way.
Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty
USA, 2012, 38 minutes
Director: Jeffrey Ruoff
At Dartmouth College in the 1970s, four male athletes joined a dance class, improvising vigorous creations from scratch. Their collaborative work led to the formation of Pilobolus and the transformation of modern dance. Eschewing the bright lights of Manhattan, and naming themselves
after a microscopic fungus, Pilobolus centered in rural Connecticut. The troupe honed a movement philosophy to teach dancers and non-dancers alike. Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty focuses on the company's lifecycle--including a founder's death--its evolution, transformation, and regeneration.

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