Hey, speaking of the Marr Sound Archives — which we just were — there's a documentary out about it and it's debuting at the KC FilmFest next week buuuut you can see it this week on KCPT as part of the "KC Filmmaker Jubilee" roundup that Randy Mason does every year on "Screentime" (8 p.m. Thursday)
The Marr docu is the second film mentioned in this press release I received from busy and obviously up-n-coming filmmaker Jordan Kerfeld:
KANSAS CITY, MO: A challenging narrative and local documentary by recent UMKC grad Jordan Kerfeld are official selections of the 2009 KCFilmFest's "Heartland College" division.
"Fingers" is screening in the shorts program titled "Alone" on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009, at 5:00pm at the AMC Mainstreet Theater at 1400 Main in downtown Kansas City. The film recently premiered at the Short Attention Span Digital Video Festival (SASDVF), a touring festival of student work from across the globe which included screenings at the Art Institute of Boston and most recently in San Luis Obispo, CA.
In "Fingers," Paul (Brandon White) addresses the loss of his index finger by withdrawing into a kaleidoscope of memories involving tickles, picked noses, and unforgiving elevator buttons. The film is an alternative narrative about one man’s mental inventory of his missing finger–a travelogue of anatomy.
"It takes a gutsy storyteller to attempt such a difficult film,” says Josh Samford of RogueCinema.com. “Kerfeld delivers an abstract story presented through a docile and beautiful landscape, painting an imaginative view of the inner workings of a man recounting his past…at just six minutes or so in length, it is at all times intriguing."
"Momentum & Marr" will appear on Friday April 24th, at 5:15pm at the same location. The short will screen in tandem with the feature documentary "Crude Independence," a film which recently played at SXSW. Kerfeld's short chronicles the history and dramatic growth of The Marr Sound Archives at UMKC, which has maintained the American experience in sound by collecting and preserving over 297,000 sound recordings in 20 years.
The film features KCUR-FM's "Fish Fry" host and archives director Chuck Haddix (pictured).
The 22-year old producer/director Kerfeld will be at both screenings. As a UMKC student he edited and co-directed the half-hour KCPT student documentary "Art on the Block," was an intern for the Kansas City Chiefs, and to date has been decorated with 6 Missouri media awards for his short films, journalism, and illustrations for The University News, the student newspaper of UMKC.
For more information about the screenings, please visit http://www.kcfilmfest.org. DVD screeners of both films are available by request.
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