OPENING NIGHT
Sat, Oct 4 / 10 dollars at the door / 8 pm
We're honored to kick off this year's fest in collaboration with Craig Baldwin's Other Cinema, at Artists' Television Access. We’ll look back at three fan-favorite shorts from past editions of DFFO before screening the U.S. premiere of Mann’s Sparks, by Oakland's own Ryland Walker Knight, who'll be in attendance to introduce his collision of Michael Mann’s iconic filmography with Beach House’s album Depression Cherry.
Mann's Sparks
Ryland Walker Knight
Oakland
Marrying Michael Mann's full-throttle filmography with the seminal album ""Depression Cherry"" by Beach House, Mann's Sparks is a dreamy evocation of endless cycles of desire and destruction in the form of a culture-jammed long-form music video.
Director Ryland Walker Knight is a writer and filmmaker from Oakland who was a 2024 Sundance Institute Native Lab Fellow and Vimeo Staff Pick recipient, and will be in-house to introduce the film.
Other Cinema
DFFO Mash-Up Retrospective
Preceding Mann's Sparks are three fan favorites from our first four years that also play in the reclaimed/repurposed/archival/found footage end of the cinematic spectrum.
Avant-garde
Animal Trials
Drew Durepos
US / DFFO 2021
Reckoning with True Crime at the precipice
Other Cinema
Documentary
Little Lower Than the Angels
NEOZOON
Germany / DFFO 2019
*googles 'did God create man?'
Other Cinema
Avant-garde
Mountain Lodge
Jordan Wong
US / DFFO 2021
The Candle. The Myth. The Legend. Mountain Lodge.