Second Annual
Ybor Festival of the Moving Image

The Hillsborough Community College Ybor Festival of the Moving Image is presenting more than 60 documentaries, features and experimental works at venues throughout Tampa including The Tampa Theatre, Madstone Theaters, Centro Ybor, the HCC Performing Arts Theater and HCC Ybor Room, and the HCC Art Gallery.

Opening the festival the afternoon of Sunday, March 14, 2004, will be a double feature of Cremaster 1 and Cremaster 2 of the acclaimed "Cremaster Cycle" by Matthew Barney.

Rarely screened in order and in its entirety, the Cremaster Cycle is a five film series of intricate complexity and stunning imagery.

Cremaster 3 will screen at 9:30 pm Thursday, March 18, 2004. The Cycle will be completed with a second double feature of Cremaster 4 and Cremaster 5 at 5 pm Sunday, March 21, 2004.

All screenings are at Madstone Theaters. 1609 West Swann Ave. in Hyde Park, Tampa.

The Festival will present the Tampa Premiere of "Ferdie Pacheco: The World of the Fight Doctor", a new film directed by Daphne Wynn Boyd, at 8 pm Sunday, March 14, at The Tampa Theatre.

Ferdie Pacheco, an Ybor City native best known as Muhammad Ali's ringside doctor and a respected artist in his own right, will be honored at a pre-screening reception at 7 pm Sunday. A question and answer session with the director will follow the film.

Other highlights of the eight-day festival:

• Bonk Festival of New Music presents live music by seven composers, 9 pm Wednesday, March 17, at the HCC Ybor Performing Arts Theater
• "Wavelengths: A Show of Media Art" by Nancy Cervenka, Mariannah Amster, Dee Hood and Nancy Yesecko, opening reception 5-9 pm Wednesday, March 17, at HCC Ybor Art Gallery

Scene from "Detained"
• "Detained", a film about three Palestinian widows who live with their 11 children in a house that straddles the border between Israeli occupied territory, and Palestian Authority controlled land.
• Ribald New York City performance artist Pat Oleszko premieres "A-Roar-Yborealis: A Night of Stars on Mars”, 7pm Thursday, March 18, at Centro Ybor Plaza
• "Rivers and Tides", a beautifully crafted documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer, who followed landscape sculptor Andy Goldsworthy for a year while he constructed his imaginative works from natural objects.
• "Conga Lessons at the Bay of Pigs", a documentary by Tampa filmmakers Peter Melaragno and Charles P. Lyman.

Contemporary media artists and filmmakers from around the country and the Tampa Bay area will be attending the festival to present their work, and in many cases premiering new works, and participating in workshops, lectures and group discussions scheduled throughout the eight-day festival.

Tickets will be available at the individual venues for each screening. A Moving Image Festival pass, for the devoted film lover, can be purchased for $100.