2009 Schedule
Box office, theaters and art gallery are located in the HCC Performing Arts Building at the corner of Palm Avenue and 15th Street in Ybor City. The art gallery will be open all hours of the festival.
View the schedule by category of events.
Wednesday April 1 2009 |
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All events are at the Mainstage Theater, unless otherwise indicated. Opening night events (April 1) are free. |
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| 6:00 pm |
Sideshow With Postage Due
Exhibition: Sideshow with Postage Due
Artists: Lori Ballard and Steve Smith Venue: Art Gallery, Performing Arts Building Tickets: Free Opening reception |
| 7:00 pm |
Opening Night CelebrationStage show, video installations by Charles Recher, Chip Neville and Charles Lyman, and the Hypnophonic Band. |
| 9:00 pm |
The Playhouse
Written By: Buster Keaton
Directed By: Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline Released: 1921 Venue: Main Stage, Performing Arts Building Tickets: Free Ray Villadonga and Rick Olson will provide the live accompaniment to a Buster Keaton silent film classic. |
Thursday April 2 2009 |
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| 12:30 pm |
Actor Look-Alike Contest
Venue: Ybor Room, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free HCC students present an actor look-alike contest. |
| 1:00 pm |
The History of Vaudeville
Venue: Ybor Room, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5 Stewart Lippe presents his documentary short film on the history of vaudeville theater. |
| 2:00 pm |
Circus!: Mud, Mayhem and Myth
Venue: Ybor Room, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5 Rob Mermin, founder of the award-winning Circus Smirkus of Vermont, shares tales and rare film clips of high adventure and low comedy, a man who ran away to the circus and returned to share the journey. |
| 5:30 pm |
Should You be Laughing?: The Video Art of Charles Recher
Venue: Ybor Room, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5 Charles Recher shows a multi-media presentation about video art. |
| 7:30 pm |
Portables: Part 1
Venue: Main Stage, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $10 Dance performance by choreographer Claire Porter. |
| 8:00 pm |
Hancock
Directed By: Peter Berg
Written By: Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan Starring: Will Smith, Charlize Theron Released: 2008 Length: 92 min Location: USA Venue: Outdoor screen at HCC Plaza, HCC-Ybor Campus Tickets: Free There are heroes... there are superheroes... and then there's Hancock (Will Smith). With great power comes great responsibility — everyone knows that — everyone, that is, but Hancock. Disgruntled, conflicted, sarcastic, and misunderstood, Hancock's well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. |
Friday April 3 2009 |
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| 10:30 am |
Rosa Rio: The Art of Silent Film Accompaniment
Venue: Music Rehearsal Hall, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free For this program, Rosa Rio will talk her life as a jazz pianist, music for life radio such as The Shadow with Orson Welles, play some piano and talk about the process of scoring silent films. |
| Noon |
The Rhetoric of Gesture
Venue: Dance Studio, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free Rob Mermin conducts a master class. |
| 5:00 pm |
Cinematic Smiles
Venue: Ybor Room, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5 Paul Guzzo, Tampa Film Review, presents his favorite comedy short films. |
| 4:00 pm |
Comic Shorts and Tall Tales - Part 1
Venue: Ybor Room, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5 A program of selected short films and videos. More... |
| 6:30 pm |
Comic Shorts and Tall Tales - Part 2
Venue: Ybor Room, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5 A program of selected short films and videos. More... |
| 7:30 pm |
The Agreeable Husband
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $10 Ami Sallee Corley and Shana Perkins perform in a multi-media presentation. |
| 9:00 pm |
Black Cat, White Cat
Directed By: Emir Kusturica
Length: 129 min Rating: R-Rated Language: Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles Released: 1998 Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building Tickets: $5 Set on the banks of the Danube River, a small time Gypsy criminal named Matko finds himself indebted to the local mob boss, Dadan. In order to have the debt forgiven, Matko arranges for his seventeen-year-old son, Zare, to marry Dadan's sister who would rather wait for the man of her dreams. Zare's love for the beautiful, blond, barmaid Ida further complicates matters. |
Saturday April 4 2009 |
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| 10:00 am |
Let’s Make Movies Camp
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free Join young filmmakers from Tampa Theatre's "Let's Make Movies" summer camp as they screen their stop motion animation and live action digital short features and talk about their filmmaking experiences. |
| 11:00 am |
Rosa Rio: Live Music for Movies
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5 Rosa Rio, 106-years-young, shares memories of playing theater organ for silent films. She will provide live accompaniment to one her favorite silent films, The Playhouse, by Buster Keaton. |
| Noon |
Comic Shorts and Tall Tales - Part 3
Venue: Ybor Room, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5 A program of selected short films and videos. More... |
| 1:00 pm |
The First Hollywood
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free Author Shawn Bean discusses his book "The First Hollywood: Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking" and presents highlights of the pre-Hollywood film industry in Florida. |
| 2:00 pm |
Ringling Bros. to Warner Bros.
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free Steve R. Smith, former Dean of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Clown College and friend, colleague and cohort of legendary Warner Bros. animator Chuck Jones, brings you film clips, plus his insight, (and hindsight) of nearly 40 years in the business of being funny. |
| 4:00 pm |
Silents are Golden: A Celebration of Silent Cinema
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5 Rob Mermin uses multi-media to present the best of silent films. |
| 7:30 pm |
Portables: Part 2
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $10 Dance performance by choreographer Claire Porter. |
| 9:00 pm |
The Aristocrats
Directed By: Paul Provenza
Length: 89 min Rating: R-Rated Released: 2005 Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building Tickets: $5 This feature-length documentary features a host of famous comedians who provide their variation on an old Vaudevillian joke. They reminisce on the history of the joke, analyze and deconstruct it and deliver their best highly scatological version of this joke called "The Aristocrats" which is too extreme to be performed in public. Many of today’s greatest comedians are featured including George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Cary, Paul Reiser, Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman. |
Sunday April 5 2009 |
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| 11:00 am |
Uploading to Angels
Written and Directed By: Fred Smith
Produced By: Marie Smith Starring: Nevada Caldwell and Abigail Taylor Length: 53 min Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building Tickets: Free Short feature film presented by Fred Smith. |
| 1:00 pm |
The Florida Dream
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free Lecture by Gary Mormimo, author of "The Florida Dream", and Larry Elliston, director of the documentary film of the same name, followed by a screening of the film. |
| 3:00 pm |
Sunshine in the Dark
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free A multi-media presentation by Susan Fernandez and Robert Ingalls. |
| 4:00 pm |
The Wild, Wild East
Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building
Tickets: Free "The Wild, Wild East: A Multi-Media Examination of the Humor and Satire in the Wonderful and Frightening World of Eastern European Cinema" presented by Lance Goldenberg. |
| 5:30 pm |
The Playhouse
Written By: Buster Keaton
Directed By: Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline Released: 1921 Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building Tickets: Free Buster Keaton (silent film) with live accompaniment by Perestroika: T. Hampton Dorhman and Chris Rutherford. |
| 7:00 pm |
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Written and Produced By: Kristy Andersen
Directed By: Sam Pollard Venue: Mainstage Theater, Performing Arts Building Tickets: Free Zora Neale Hurston, who grew up in Eatonville, Florida, attained unique success in many areas, but during her lifetime her words and conclusions were often surrounded in contention. Documentary produced for the PBS "American Masters" television series. |
Humor and Satire
This year's theme is "humor and satire" and the festival is presenting performers and works it considers funny, satirical, humorous, and/or comedic.
Note carefully the date of the Opening Night events. Don't be surprised if we have a trick or two planned.
Pinnacle of Clowndom
Steve R. Smith, both a graduate of and former director of the Ringling Clown College, was inducted in 1993 into the Clown Hall of Fame.
Early Signs of Life's Mission
As a child, Claire Porter tried to teach her dog to dance, thereby revealing her future passion for choreography.
Travels With Carnival
While Lori Ballard was the official photographer for the Florida State Fair, she met her boyfriend, who owns a carnival show. It was while traveling with him that Lori began photographing the daily lives of carnival people.
Learning From the Best
Performer and circus historian Rob Mermin not only was trained by the well-known mime Marcel Marceau, he was also a student of Marceau's teacher, Etienne DeCroux.
Nine Buster Keatons
In "The Playhouse", released in 1921, Buster Keaton plays nine members of a minstral show simultaneously. He designed a special camera lens covered by nine metal slits. Each minstral was photographed onto the same film by opening and closing the slits in succession.
Amy Vanderbilt's Legacy
Ami Sallee Corley's "The Agreeable Husband" was inspired by a generation of women who lived under the rule of Amy Vanderbilt, who published Complete Book of Etiquette in 1952.
