Okie Shorts
We already know that Oklahoma City University will represent at the deadCENTER Film Festival with the feature Unsolved. It looks like the University of Oklahoma will have representation at the festival as well.
Two films from OU graduate Royce Sharp will be shown, The Breakup of a Happy Marriage and Deus Ex Machina (w/ Walker Robins). In an article in the Norman Transcript, Sharp describes the former as a “funeral for my right testicle. The latter is described as a “comedy about a guy and his moustache.” Okay. Testicles don’t often play a huge role in the films that I like…but if it’s personal and/or honest, then why not. Now, the moustache movie…I don’t know about. Last year there was a funny Okie short that screened called Man With a Moustache. Hopefully, Sharp and Robins’ film brings some originality to the facial hair genre.
OU art professor Robert Dohrmann will show his Rebus Riot! which he describes in the Transcript article as “not really a story like most of the other films at deadCENTER. It’s really more concept-based.” While just about anybody is likely to be confounded by some of the shorts that get screened at deadCENTER, I honestly think that having read Film Art will give me a newfound perspective with which to appreciate what some of the more “experimental” films are trying to do.
The Breakup of a Happy Marriage will be shown as part of the Okie Shorts program at 7:00pm, Friday the 13th, at Kerr Auditorium.
Deus Ex Machina and Rebus Riot! will be shown as part of the Midnight Shorts program at 11:55pm, Friday the 13th, at the IAO Gallery.
