Hankering for a dose of digital media?
The Short Attention Span Digital Video Festival is back for a sixth year of funny, fascinating and moving short films.
Sponsored by Cuesta College, the festival showcases digital films — one to 20 minutes long — by students from around the world. Organizers work with the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.
Catch the first screening this Thursday at the Palm Theatre, 817 Palm Ave., in San Luis Obispo. Tickets are $10.
Here’s a sampling of the 17 short films you’ll see at Short Attention Span:
“Snip Crunch”: A pack of scissor wolves hunt for their paper sheep lunch.
“Eternal High”: A teenager captures his true-life struggle with depression and thoughts of suicide on film.
“Sailing the Star of India”: Modern men and women explain why they sail on the world’s oldest working tall ship in this film about the Star of India, the Maritime Museum of San Diego’s star attraction.
“SI SE PUEDE!?”: A mini-documentary covers the May 1, 2006, immigrant march in Los Angeles, combining sights and sounds with music and the spoken word.
“Plight of the Windie: Birds of Mystery”: This three-minute mockumentary tells the amazing tale of an endangered species of birds. The birds are plastic and powered by rubber bands but their owners don’t seem to notice.
“ORIZURU”: A forbidden love lost in the atomic ashes of Hiroshima.
“My Name Is Wallace”: A lonely, mentally challenged man finds love and redemption with a sex hotline operator.
Short Attention Span will screen more films on Nov. 8 at the Palm Theatre. The festival is also sponsoring November screenings in Los Angeles and Boston.
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Monty Python fans will want to catch John Cleese at UC Santa Barbara next week.
Cleese will introduce a screening of “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” on Tuesday, May 1. The comedian, co-creator of Britain’s famous “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and star of “Fawlty Towers” and “A Fish Called Wanda,” will also answer questions about the classic, controversial “Life of Brian” after the film.
Tickets are $20, $10 for UC Santa Barbara students. Visit the event Web site for more details.
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