[Frameworks] Suggestions for mid-lenght films?

[Dave Tetzlaff]

Christina:
Please define mid-length in a range of minutes.
Long and short can be subjective and vary by norms of the form. E.g. a 45'
experimental films would probably feel 'long', but a 45' narrative (either
fiction or non-fiction, including 'cult/camp') would be considered only
'mid-length', as the standard 'regular' length is presumed to be a feature.

Those narrative presumptions govern most festivals, where programmers
consider length as a more or less defined range of minutes. They either
want to fill their slots with one feature length piece or a collection of
shorts, typically 15' or under. They don't like to program mid-length
pieces (~ 25' - 55') as putting two if those in a slot lacks the
identity/gravity of a feature, and by devoting the non-feature slots to 4-5
gets more makers into the festival and more viewers into the session by
having one piece a range of different folks will want to see.

The upshot of this is that good films in this mid-range are often bereft of
screenings, so you have a cool factor for featuring them as that's so
seldom done.

Just in case these fit your concept of mid-length: I'd say the starting
point for mid-cult-camp is Mike Kuchar's Sins of the Fleshapoids (42'). For
mid-cult (not really camp) Christopher MacLaines brilliant The End (35').
Two wonderful quirky Werner Herzog 'documentaries' La Soufrierre (30') and
The Great Ecstacy of the Sculptor Steiner (45')...
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