The 1999 Johns Hopkins Film Festival screened some of the most innovative‚ surprising and controversial films from the indie festival circuit. But our faves were the lesser-known films of local yockels like D.C.ís Alvin Ecarma and Hopkins film student Todd Rohal. Besides being artists‚ theyíre fun guys‚ and their films were among the most popular‚ laugh-inducing entries at the festival. Atomic TV presents their complete works interspersed with interviews‚ plus see Alvin shoot guns‚ laugh at Conan OíBrien and do splits like a woman. Then watch Todd Rohal reduce the history of Film Noir into a 16-minute homage called “Single Spaced‚” show hip-hop frat boys dancing in their underwear and tormenting mega-nerd “Knuckleface Jones‚” and take viewers on a David Lynch creepout in “Slug 660.” Meanwhile‚ Alvin Ecarma waxes poetic over his mutt’s declining health in “My Dog Has a Cyst‚” recites verbatim the trailer from the 70̸’;s exploitation classic “Ghetto Freaks” in “Me!‚”fights crime as comic superhero The Badger in “A Conversation‚”blows smoke at the tobacco industry in “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby (A
Long Way To Die!)”‚ parodies homophobia in “G.I. Joe” and vexes the Vatican with “Sister Mary Blow Job.”
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