Okay, so Trump
won the presidency, and we are likely doomed. It’s okay; we would be doomed
under President Hillary Clinton as well, just not quite so entertainingly. Chin
up, troops, Cleveland has come back from worse disasters, catastrophes and
setbacks than this. There was the time…. (open calendar to any date at random
in last 200 years).
Or take as inspiration
the Ohio Independent Film Festival, AKA the film festival That Will Not Die.
The go-to venue for local filmmaking, workshops, staged readings and, of course,
screenings, it started in a Tremont gallery-storefront as the Off-Hollywood
Flick Fest in 1993. At one point it happened four times per year!
It later moved to
the Cleveland Public Theatre campus for a number of years, then Atlas Lakeshore
Cinemas, under a rotating management and a morphing format. Now it comes to the Bop Stop jazz-music
venue at 2920 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland.
The festival is
preceded on Thursday night by a 6 p.m. reception with longtime Cleveland avant-garde
independent filmmaker (and champion of celluloid film) Robert Banks Jr., who
has been with the OIFF since the beginning. There is also live music. Admission
to that is free but donations are appreciated.
The real OIFF
happens Friday night at 7 p.m. with a one-evening marathon of global features
and short subjects, opening with the Iranian drama ATOUSA'S LAUGHTER, which was
shot entirely aboard a moving train in Tehran in five days (as Robert Banks always says, all the time, "Awww man, WE could have made that!"). A feature-length
set of shorts wraps up things after midnight.
Admission is $20.
For more information go online to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ohio-independent-film-festival-one-night-only-tickets-28653450241
or call (216) 771-6551.
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