deadCENTER Film Festival 2008

Deus Ex Machina' is quite simply the story of a man, his moustache, and how sexy it makes him look.

Each summer residents of Lake County, California get together for 'The Fiberglass 500,' a race in which people pull old, beat up boats around a race track with their demolition derby cars, trying to rip each others boats to shreds! Last man (or woman) standing wins. Award winning documentary filmmakers John Beck and Don R. Lewis spend a day at the races and bring you 'Drag King.'

Did you ever wonder what happens when the last page is turned? 'Happily Ever After' allows you to find out by pushing the boundaries of traditional cinematographic storytelling. It's warm and beautiful, and yet in a most innovative and lighthearted way it's asking us to think, and think hard.

Lust, Trust and Lucha Libre. Lovers enact a game of duping and disguise with a Mexican wrestling mask.

Shorts in Program: Simulcara The Stewardess S&M Queen for a Day Hombri Kabuki Rebus Riot Deux Ex Machina Happily Ever After Drag King The Return of Sgt. Pecker

When you add legs to the egg after you have finished the feather, what do you get? And consider that a dollar of discretion never holds a candle up to the moth. Or combine a montage of colorful dictionary icons with bag full of mind boggling mixed metaphors in a 9 sequence animation, and what to you have? A Rebus Riot!

In the vast galaxy, There are one robot planet which every natural life was extinct, There'r only machine and robot live in that planet. One day, one robot found a piece of organic life existing in his world. He's very excited about his discovery and want to save that organic piece. Unfortuantely, that piece is in the dangerous and restrict area in his planet. Finally, He decide to risk and save that piece. Then his adventure begin.

A frustrated girlfriend's brush with an S&M encounter leads her into a stream of consciousness inner-monologue about her life.

Where desire ends and addiction begins. A film about the amount of food in a society which has lost its proportions, about the work of people, who don't know anymore, what their calling is.