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Courtesy of 72 Film Fest

A scene from the 2021 Launch Party with 72 Film Fest cofounder Clark Kline.

72 Film Fest kicks off year17 with Launch Party

The 72 Film Fest is an annual time-based film competition where teams have 72 hours to make a movie. Based in Frederick, the fest inspires and challenges filmmakers to create a movie based around a specific annual theme, which changes each year and is announced at the Launch Party, along with specific criteria for each team to use when crafting their film.

The Launch Party, hosted by Mikael Johnson and Aura Manjarrez, is open to the public and starts at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 22 at Spinners Pinball Arcade, 919 N. East St., Suite B, Frederick. Teams will be set free to start producing films at 9 p.m. that evening.

This year’s films will be screened on the big screen Oct. 7 and 8 at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick. Prizes and awards will be given in a variety of categories, including writing, acting, cinematography, editing and more. Tickets to the event are available through the Weinberg Center box office.

Students, amateurs and pros created more than 600 films for the festival in its first 16 years.

In addition to inspiring new short films, 72 Fest producers have launched two feature film projects: Samuel Tressler’s “Leda,” a 3D, black-and-white film based on the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan, and Nickolas Jackson’s “The Black Hills Night Hike,” a horror anthology based on Maryland myths and monsters that incorporates several filmmakers’ short films.

While many of the arts are supported in the area and have stages or galleries, filmmakers do not have a centralized place to show their work. 72 Film Fest Fest brings attention to the local talent that is thriving here.

For more information, visit 72Fest. com.

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‘Moonage Daydream’ captures Bowie’s many personae

David Bowie in “Moonage Daydream.”

Neon

BY PAT PADUA

The Washington Post

“It was a pudding of new ideas.”

That’s how shape-shifting rock star David Bowie, in the film “Moonage Daydream,” remembers the tasty pop-culture environment that inspired him to use an onstage persona by the name of Ziggy Stardust to, as he puts it, create “the 21st century in 1971.”

It’s also an apt way to describe director Brett Morgen’s dizzying documentary profile of Bowie, who died in 2016 just two days after his 69th birthday. The film doesn’t include any talking heads or identifying captions; the structure largely muddles chronology and at any moment might juxtapose a clip from D.A. Pennebaker’s 1973 film “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” with behind-the-scenes shots from Bowie’s 1984 tour or even a 21st-century music video.

It’s a disorienting strategy. And it may be the best approach to summing up the chameleonic Bowie, perfectly capturing the excitement of that pudding.

Morgen spent four years selecting material from the musician’s voluminous archives, combing through nearly half a century of interviews, concert clips and film appearances as well as never-before-seen footage and unpublished writings and visual art. Morgen’s quick-cut collage also inserts brief historical and cultural markers to put Bowie in context without weighing things down with exposition. So the keen-eyed might recognize clips from a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie, or Michael Powell’s Technicolor classic “The Red Shoes.”

Occasionally, Morgen’s mashup is too on the nose. It isn’t necessary to illustrate the lyric “Put your ray gun to my head,” from the song that lends the film its title, with a clip of a 1950s sci-fi monster getting its head blown off. But even that puts Bowie’s “alien rock star” stage presence into context. And for the most part, the 20th-century collage is as unpredictable as Bowie was at his best.

While “Daydream” mostly avoids the traps of strictly chronological music documentaries that end up playing like audiovisual Wikipedia entries — I’m looking at you, “The Sparks Brothers” — there still is room for standard biography. But it helps that such information here comes from Bowie himself. Hence, as we hear Bowie go on about the older stepbrother who introduced him to artistic outsiders, photos of William Burroughs and John Coltrane drift onto the screen. Yet the audio seems to critique this very method as Bowie speaks of “an inexhaustible supply of extracurricular thoughts” — and the challenge of what to do with all this information.

“Art is about searching,” Bowie says, and “Daydream” pays homage to that exploratory method. And if the film becomes more conventional as Bowie enters the highly commercial 1980s, that too suits the way in which the artist developed.

By the time Bowie died, he was kind of a cuddly rock elder whom everybody loved. But Morgen, with clips of earlier Bowie at his most androgynous, reminds audiences that the kind of gender-bending that seems de rigueur in 2022 was truly shocking 50 years ago.

If the film’s fractured timeline suggests a rock-and-roll version of Michael Apted’s celebrated documentary anthology known as the Up series — which has followed a group of British schoolchildren, at seven-year intervals, since 1964 — so Bowie’s career plays out like a very strange coming-of-age movie, from alienation to assimilation. This progression may not have been good for his art; Bowie himself wondered, as he matured and felt more comfortable in his skin: “Do I need to write anymore?”

He did, and if the highs were less frequent, Bowie continued to challenge himself until the end.

One of Bowie’s formative musical memories revolves around Fats Domino. As he relates it, the young Bowie found Domino’s Cajun accent incomprehensible, but that very lack of understanding was what made the music so powerful. Far from a nostalgic package of greatest hits, “Moonage Daydream” suggests that pop music is at its best when it’s mysterious. A scene from “Motorcycle Diaries.”

Courtesy photo

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with film

National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated every year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 to honor the contributions and influence Hispanic Americans have had on the culture and history of the United States. To help celebrate, the Carroll County Arts Council and the Carroll County Local Management Board for Children, Youth, and Families are presenting free community events at the Carroll Arts Center.

The Hispanic Heritage Film Festival will take place on Sept. 24 with a screening of “In the Heights” at 1 p.m. and “The Motorcycle Diaries” at 7:30 p.m.

The scent of a cafecito caliente hangs in the air just outside of the 181st Street subway stop in “In the Heights,” where a kaleidoscope of dreams rallies this vibrant and tight-knit community. At the intersection of it all is the like-able, magnetic bodega owner Usnavi (Anthony Ramos), who saves every penny from his daily grind as he hopes, imagines and sings about a better life. Adapted from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.

The inspiring biopic “The Motorcycle Diaries” traces the youthful origins of Che Guevara’s revolutionary heart, when a 23-year-old Guevara (Gael García Bernal) and a friend, Alberto (Rodrigo de la Serna), pile onto a motorcycle to travel across South America. Over the course of eight months and 8,000 miles, what starts as a lark becomes a profound journey of discovery, not only of themselves but of a continent filled with infinite sorrow and infinite hope. Ernesto and Alberto discover an affinity for humanity within themselves and a determination to change the world.

Admission to the film events is free with no tickets required.

The Carroll Arts Center is at 91 W. Main St., Westminster. For more information, go to carrollcountyartscouncil.org or call 410-8487272.

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HARVESTFEST ARTISAN AND CRAFT FAIR

Something for everyone! Located in the St. John Regional Catholic School Gym at St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church 8414 Opossumtown Pike Frederick, MD 21702 Participant inquiries and additional information available at https://www.saintdrexel.org/event/harvestfest2022/ Save the date Sat. Oct 29 9am-3pm Sun. Oct 30 9am-1pm ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH CREAGERSTOWN

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USED BOOK SALE

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