24 Frames per Second: The 2nd Annual Non-Print Film Series: AN EVENING OF SHORTS

Date and Time
March 19, 2012
Event Details

Title: The Landscaper’s Daughter

Total Running Time: 23 minutes

A high school history teacher asks his class to interview a combat veteran as part of their study of wars. Sarah, the daughter of a local landscaper and a Vietnam veteran, approaches her father, who doesn’t take well to the assignment.

Director: Derek Curl


Title: Hidden in The Sand

Total Running Time: 37 min.

In 1974, a coup backed by the Greek military junta instigated Turkey to invade the nation of
Cyprus. They captured almost 40% of the island and displaced its residents, both Greek and Turkish-
Cypriot. Varosha, which was a thriving port city in Famagusta on the east coast of Cyprus, was occupied
and all its Greek-Cypriot residents forced to leave their homes. Since then, a large portion of
Famagusta, called Varosha, has been encircled by barbed wire and kept under surveillance by the
Turkish military, which uses the territory as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Cyprus
government. Over the last 37 years, Varosha went from being “Cyprus’s Riviera”, to a dilapidated ghost
city; its former inhabitants watch their houses decay from outside the barricades. As both the maker
and a participant, the filmmaker examine the fate of this “city in captivity” and her family’s connection to it. The film tackles the ugly effects of nationalism, militarism, and propaganda in the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities.


Director: Vasia Markides
Website: vasiamarkides.blogspot.com


Title: The Intimate Subject

Total Running Time: 24 min.


Based on the one act play, by Aaron Lehmann, this is the tale of a young female photographer
who is fueled by glamorous dreams of artistic grandeur. When her first model arrives, a hidden
connection is apparent, and when revealed, it forces all present to examine the dangers and
transcendent nature of intimacy.


Director: Aaron Lehmann
Website: www.lehmannfilms.com