Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 10'
On a green grass lawn, next to a bright red stop sign,
two girls in matching pink and white outfits get gleefully drunk under the gaze
of passing traffic. Babes in Toyland in a playful and vioolent satire, in which
a beautiful spring day turns into a bloody
nightmare.
Biography
film director
Clara Latham
Clara Latham is a visual artist and composer whose interests lie in the interaction between music, theater, and video. Her most recent film Go Inside uses a surveillance camera to document a charachter's loss of identity. As a musician, she has performed around the USA with the experimental group The Gongs. Her chamber work Sleeping Dogs Lie will be premeried by the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble in Iowa City and in Cleveland, Ohio
FILMOGRAFIA
>Babes in Toyland (cm, 2002), Go Inside (cm, 2003).
Ry Russo-Young
Ry Russo-Young (New York, NY, USA, 1981) made her first film, Wide Berth, in collaboration with Lola Schnabel, while attending Saint Ann’s High School. After graduating from Oberlin College in 2003, Russo-Young made the Super 8 short film Marion. A three-screen deconstruction of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, the film screened at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and garnered several awards, including a Silver Hugo at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival and the Jury Award for Best Experimental Film at the 2006 SXSW Film Festival. Ry Russo-Young’s feature film debut, Orphans, received a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival and screened at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, among others. She worked on artist Doug Aitken’s video installation Sleepwalkers, which appeared on the exterior of the Museum of Modern Art of New York in January, 2007.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Wide Berth (coregia/codirector Lola Schnabel, cm, 1999), Marion (cm, 2005), Orphans (2007), You Wont Miss Me (2009).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, montaggio, interpreti,
produttore/Director, story, screenwriter, film editor, cast, producer
: Ry Russo-Young, Clara Latham
Fotografia/Director of photography: Ry Russo-Young, Matt Marlin
Produzione/Production: Hellevana Productions
Fotografia/Director of photography: Ry Russo-Young, Matt Marlin
Produzione/Production: Hellevana Productions