Sundance Film Festival 2006

The Festival’s Frontier section presents five films that represent new directions in filmmaking and Frontier Live, a live cinematic performance program - this year's was Our Second Date by artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, described as "a miniature movie set geared for live robotic cinema that puts the production, post-production, and exhibition of a film all in one room".

Utilising experimental and innovative aesthetic approaches, work in the Frontier category challenges and provokes.

View other Sundance Film Festival Films by strand: Independent Feature Film Competition: Documentary, Independent Feature Film Competition: Dramatic, Park City At Midnight, Premieres, Spectrum, Sundance Collection, World Cinema Competition: Documentary, World Cinema Competition: Dramatic

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Old Joy and Wild Tigers I Have Known
Cinnamon (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Kevin Jerome Everson; Writer: Kevin Jerome Everson; Stars: Ashley Bowles, John Bowles, Larry Bowles, Rhonda Bowles, Vincent Fowler, Raymond Mason, Erin Stewart)
This experimental feature film provides a glimpse into the world of African American drag racing with the story that contrasts the consistent routine of a bank teller and mechanic as they prepare for the sport.
A Darkness Swallowed (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Betzy Bromberg; Writer: Betzy Bromber)
A personal investigation of cellular memory, a bio-meta-physical musical, A Darkness Swallowed is a meditation of the evanescent traces of memory and loss.
World Premiere
Old Joy (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt; Stars: Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg, Keri Moran, Autumn Campbell, Steve Doughton, Matt McCormick, Darren Prolsen, Jillian Wieseneck)
Two friends go camping in Oregon. They take the dog. They have a hot bath in the woods. They come home.
World Premiere
Pine Flat (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Sharon Lockhart; Writer: Sharon Lockhart)
An intimate portrait of a town’s children set in the stunning landscape of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Both an anthropological look at youth and a meditation on solitude, nature, socialization and the line between fact and fiction.
World Premiere
Wild Tigers I Have Known (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Cam Archer; Writer: Cam Archer; Stars: Malcolm Stumpf, Patrick White, Fairuza Balk, Kim Dickens)
Sexual awakening of a teenager who tries to engage with the object of his affections by posing as a woman on the phone.
World Premiere
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