Fish Kill: The End of the Line

Fish Kill

Uncle Arnold got fat

that summer,

belly full

of potato candy

a sugar roll

bursting

with peanut butter

like pimples

Aunt Midge popped

on his back after work.

Uncle Arnold died 

at the bottom of an oil tank,

red, white, and blue

puffing him up,

painting his lungs

like fourth of July

beside the Ohio 

while Aunt Midge

drew fingers through

curly yellow locks,

knocked catfish off hooks

into bloody buckets

watching them

gasp and swell

under a rotting sun.

Embarras Valley Film Festival Student Short Film Contest Official Selections

EVFF 2014 Student Short Film Contest Official Selections

A Problem, Dir. Zoe Tether

Birthday Boy, Dir. Josef Lorenzo

The Thief, Dir. Ali Aschman

Into the Glass , Dir. Grant Czadzeck

Hell! Visa, Dir. Junjie "Jake" Zhang

Passenger, Dir. Brendan Kirschbaum

Tough Case, Dir. Stefan Perez

Run. , Dir. Kevin Bauer

Overflowing, Dir. Royal Day, Aurora Gonzales

Splintered Heart, Dir. Yu Tin Ko

Dark Mechanism, Dir. Ihab Mardini

Melon Head, Dir. Andy Fortenbacher

POOP, Dir. Mitchell O'Hearn

937 MILES APART , Dir. Justin Escalona

'Tis the Season, Dir. Kirsten Stuck

Pretty Penny, Dir. Ellen Willis

BEAT, Dir. Inhye Lee

Mr. Bear, Dir. Andres Rosende

Fan, Dir. Alex Zajicek

WIND, Dir. Hunter Hopewell

Road Trip, Dir. Stacy Jill Calvert

Girly, Dir. Kira Bursky

Home Cooking, Dir. Elizabeth Herrick

Alicia's Vengeance, Dir. Char Vereen, Yusuf Al-Rahman

Embarras Valley Film Festival, November 6-8, 2014!

10^th Annual Embarras Valley Film Festival

November 6-8, 2014

Films of Dick Van Dyke

Schedule of Events with Synopses

Thursday, November 6

3:30-5:30pm             Film screening of Divorce American Style (1967) with introduction by Robin Murray, Coleman Hall Auditorium, Room 1255

After seventeen years of marriage, affluent Los Angeles suburban

couple Richard Harmon (Van Dyke) and his wife Barbara (Reynolds)

seem to have it all, but when they discover they can no longer

communicate, even to argue, they file for a divorce that grows

worse than their marriage.

7:00-9:00pm Student-Produced Short Film Contest, Lecture Hall,

Doudna Fine Arts Center

Friday, November 7

Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall

7:00pm          The Comic (1969) with introduction by Chuck Koplinski

A fictionalized account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright, played by Dick Van Dyke, The Comic (1969) is also loosely based on the life of Buster Keaton. Beginning with Bright’s funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, the film takes us through Bright’s fame, his ruin, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life's disappointments.

Saturday, November 8

Tarble Arts Center Atrium, 2010 9^th Street

           

2:00pm          Mary Poppins (1964) Family Matinee Movie

           

A spoiled and bored upper crust Edwardian English family, the Banks, has their world turned upside down by a magical nanny (Mary Poppins) and her friend Bert (Dick Van Dyke) who teach them how to enjoy life. As a live action and animation musical, Mary Poppins has both comedy and pathos and showcases imaginative scenes that are wonderful for adults and children alike. Audiences will be singing along in no time..."in the most delightful way!"

7:00pm          Cold Turkey (1971) with introduction by Dann Gire 

Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa and its spiritual leader, Reverend Clayton Brooks (Dick Van Dyke) accept the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.

           

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