Schedule State Theatre

Sept. 23, 2021 Thursday

8:15 PM

State Theatre
2h

Opening Night Shorts

In this Program
Under the Lights
Miles Levin11mEnglish Narrative Short
Ellipse - Felixe
Alexandre Richard5mCanadaEnglish Narrative Short
Blocks
Bridget Moloney12mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
PHX
Jon Felson8mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Cerdita (Piggy)
Carlota Pereda14mSpainSpanish (English Subtitles)Narrative Short
We Got a Monkey's Paw
Aaron Pagniano9mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Smelly Little Town
Zach Neumeyer26mEnglish Documentary Short
PEW! PEW! PEW!
Loren Dunn13mUSAEnglish Narrative Short

Sept. 24, 2021 Friday

11:00 AM

State Theatre
1h 15m

Queens of Pain

Cassie Hay, Amy Winston1h 15mEnglish Documentary Feature
Three women at different stages of life - Suzy Hotrod, Evilicious, and Captain Smack Sparrow - struggle to balance their lives in New York City with the dedication and stamina needed to maintain their place on the world's best roller derby team.

4:15 PM

State Theatre
1h 15m

Driftless

Harper Philbin1h 15mUSAEnglish Narrative Feature
Driftless is a feature-length drama about Nova Abbey, a park ranger at work during a state government shutdown on a busy 4th of July weekend, protecting the park from the people and the people from each other.

6:45 PM

State Theatre
1h 44m

Friday Evening Shorts

In this Program
A Gray One
Matt Enlow8mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Girls Are Strong Here
Scott Burkhardt16mUSAArabic, English (English Subtitles)Narrative Short
Dieorama
Kevin Staake11mEnglish Documentary Short
7AM Wednesday
Julie Herlocker10mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Feeling Flush
Erin Brown Thomas10mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Babs
Celine Held, Logan George13mGBEnglish Narrative Short
Relationship Deli
Ian Van der Werff4mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Fantasy Pony
Caitlin Carleton20mUSAEnglish Narrative Short

9:15 PM

State Theatre
1h 22m

Martha : A Picture Story

Selina Miles1h 22mEnglish Documentary Feature
*Biography* In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later, Cooper has become influential to the global movement of street artists.

11:00 PM

State Theatre
1h 30m

The Last Porno Show

Kire Paputts1h 30mCanadaEnglish Narrative Feature
Wayne, a struggling method actor, inherits the city's last porno cinema from his estranged father, Al. Seeing this as an unconventional opportunity to reconcile their relationship, Wayne absorbs himself in the underworld of the pornography business. While running the cinema Wayne meets a cast of characters. Each character acts as a piece of a puzzle in helping Wayne rediscover the father he barely knew. But the old cinema turns out to be much more than Wayne anticipated.

Sept. 25, 2021 Saturday

11:00 AM

State Theatre
1h 30m

A Michigan Morning: Shorts (Saturday)

In this Program
Something Blue
Brennan Huizinga23mEnglish Narrative Short
Last Day for Videos
Chad Campbell8mUSAEnglish Documentary Short
Boxes for Rox
Chelsey Raegen Knapp5mUSAEnglish Animation Short
Burnt
Colton Fromhart5mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Replica
Christopher Jarvis11mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Fire Flower
Stephan Leeper6mUSAEnglish Animation Short
Ice Fishing in a Climate Crisis that Precedes a Global Pandemic
Peter Johnston9mUSAEnglish Documentary Short
The Way I See Maria
Jeremy Berkowitz9mUSAEnglish Narrative Short

1:30 PM

State Theatre
1h 49m

Pinbox

Devin Cameron1h 34mUSAEnglish Narrative Feature
Socially out of touch Eddie is obsessed with old school pinball. When he's not fantasizing about 1970s pinball champs he's working as a repair man. After discovering a mysterious old pinball table, Eddie starts a quest to repair it and learn of the game's origins. As his focus deepens and his desire to fix the machine turns into paranoid obsession, he seeks out help to uncover the game's secrets. Is this the greatest game ever made?

4:15 PM

State Theatre
2h 2m

Vinyl Nation

Kevin Smokler, Christopher Boone1h 32mUSAEnglish Documentary Feature
A deep dig into the crates of the vinyl record resurgence to discover what an old technology says about our relationship to music and each other in a divided time in America.
Vinyl Nation & Panel Discussion

Following the screening of Vinyl Nation listen to the conversation as director & producer Kevin Smokler joins Jay Glysz of Lightning Licks Vinyl Preservation Society, Jim Gleason of Radio Wasteland (Midland), and Jordan Pries of Electric Kitsch (Bay City) in a panel discussion guided by Peter Rose-Barry, festival programmer.

Also in this Program
Vinyl Nation Panel
30mEnglish Workshop/Panel

6:45 PM

State Theatre
1h 49m

The Sympathy Card

Brendan Boogie1h 34mEnglish Narrative Feature
Unlucky at love, Josie joins a lesbian soccer league in hopes of meeting more single women. She hits the jackpot in Emma and in a brief musical montage, the two fall in love and get married. When Emma's cancer takes a turn for the worse, she presents her new wife with a deathbed order: find someone new while Emma is still around to approve of her choice. Can a story with heart, humor, and a dying spouse have a happy ending?

9:15 PM

State Theatre
1h 23m

How To Stop A Recurring Dream

Edward Morris1h 23mGBEnglish Narrative Feature
Faced with a split custody break up, a family's older daughter kidnaps her hostile younger sister to embark on a journey to reconnect before they part.

Sept. 26, 2021 Sunday

12:00 PM

State Theatre
1h 38m

Sunday Shorts

In this Program
Waffle
Carlyn Hudson11mEnglish Narrative Short
Making Samantha
T Cooper, Allison Glock-Cooper11mEnglish Documentary Short
Mother Tongue
Jessica Li12mAustraliaEnglish, Chinese Narrative Short
There will be MONSTERS
Carlota Pereda5mSpainSpanish (English Subtitles)Narrative Short
Sorry For Your Loss
Tina Carbone, Jaclyn Jasgur7mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Alina
Rami Kodeih25mUSAEnglish, German, Polish (English Subtitles)Narrative Short
Mind Mending
Markus Schröder17mGBEnglish, Portuguese (English Subtitles)Documentary Short
Life on Mars
Troian Bellisario12mUSAEnglish Narrative Short

2:30 PM

State Theatre
1h 34m

Michigan Matinee: Shorts (Sunday)

In this Program
Buyer's Remorse
Karen Stefl, Garrett Jafano6mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
The Projectionist: Portrait of a Reel Artist
Peter Johnston7mUSAEnglish Documentary Short
Space Rocks!
Damien Donnelly3mIrelandEnglish Narrative Short
Daddy Baby
Steve Greist, Allie Long14mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
A Visitor
Bret Miller5mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
The Ring Light
Barret Bowman4mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Big Bons
Katherine Montgomery19mUSAEnglish Documentary Short
What Happened to Henry?
Andrew Acciaioli24mUSAEnglish Documentary Short

5:00 PM

State Theatre
1h 53m

The Penny Black

William J. Saunders1h 38mUSAEnglish Documentary Feature
Will, the estranged son of a conman, was left holding the bag, literally. His shady Russian neighbor, Roman, asked him to hold a million-dollar stamp collection, then swiftly disappears. Driven by fear and the desire to "do the right thing," Will goes on the hunt for Roman with the intention of returning the valuable goods. But when a significant piece of the collection goes missing, the filmmakers are forced to reexamine Will's capacity for honesty.

7:30 PM

State Theatre
1h 31m

Golden Arm

Maureen Bharoocha1h 31mEnglish Narrative Feature
*Comedy* A tough lady trucker trains her wimpy best friend to compete in the National Ladies Arm Wrestling Championship.