(rock/hard place)
running time: 6 min. 30 sec.
16mm
2005
description
Morro Bay, California is a little coastal tourist town known mostly for the Morro Rock, a volcanic plug that sits at the mouth of the Bay. In all the postcards of Morro Bay, the image is framed so that you can't tell that just beyond the edge of the postcard, maybe a few hundred yards from the Rock, is a gargantuan power plant with 3 towering smoke stacks. This film tries to restore the power plant to the frame, so that we can start thinking about what the juxtaposition of these two massive objects might mean.
screenings
This film premiered as a work-in-process in the Invitational at the PDX Film Festival in April. The final version made its festival premiere at the DC Underground Film Festival on October 1 and was concurrently being screened as part of a program of Roger Beebe's films that toured the Heartland for 27 days in September and October. Since then, it has (as of May 2006) screened at another half-dozen festivals including the European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrýck, Germany and the semi-annual show of new experimental works at Artists Television Access in San Francisco. (rock/hard place) has been awarded several festival prizes including the Alice Guy Blache Award for Celebration of Film at the Humboldt International Short Film Festival.
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