The Scenester: Watch trailers from the the local film premieres at the 941 Theater

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The Scenester: Watch trailers from the the local film premieres at the 941 Theater

POSTED: Friday, May 15, 2009, 7:58 PM

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Courtesy of the 941 Theater

Jess Bernard in Joe Kramer's 20th Century Boy

In this week's film section, I wrote about three local films premiering at the 941 Theater. But describing a film alone can't really do it justice. Check out the trailers for yourself.

20th Century Boy

The informal night of premi'res begins with Joe Kramer's 20th Century Boy, about a man who claims to be a soldier from WWI who mysteriously shows up in the present. Kramer made it through two weeks at UArts before defecting for a job at TLA Video, which he calls a mini-film school boot camp. He initially submitted his film to 941's Backseat Film Festival, but missed the deadline. The 941ers liked it enough to ask Kramer to return.

20TH CENTURY BOY FEATURE FILM TRAILER

The Scrapper

Here's what intern Matthew Schantz had to say about Jonathon Olshefski's short:

The abrasive sound of metal and the visage of a scruffy middle-aged man. The camera pans out. He is rollerblading up a hill pushing a shopping cart loaded with metal scrap. This is how the subject of The Scrapper, Joe ' a Germantown Academy graduate, two war veteran and one time vice-CEO of a company ' now lives. The 30 minute short captures a day in his life. Joe rummages through trash, grabbing metals and 'antiques.' He is the personification of the idiom 'one man's trash is another man's treasure,' showing off his collection of finds including a bottle of whisky, an old toilet,and the game Simon. He had a good job and good pay for a time, but Joe was laid off. The screen fades to black with the same shoulder-wide shot that it began with, the rattling sound of metal lingering through the credit reel

The Mind

Williams' film, The Mind, rounds out the program. In this horror movie told in vignettes, six average people are mysteriously driven to exhume parts of one skeleton and slowly descend into murderous madness. Williams, who also did time with Kramer at TLA (they worked on each other's projects), first met 941 co-owner and lead film programmer Zafer lk'c' when the two were undergrads at Temple.

The MIND: grindhouse-style trailer

Sun., May 17, 6 p.m., $3-$10, 941 Theater, 941 N. Front St., 215-235-1385, 941theater.com

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