Newly Re-Mastered! Joe Pacheco, Curator of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, has selected 10 stellar shorts film for this DVD compilation.

details: They have all played at major festivals and won important awards but, most importantly, they have played at Pacheco's screening series, which takes place every other Monday at Barbes, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.

TRUE STORY, Directed by Stephanie Via

3 min - 2006 - USA - English - B&W

An elderly woman remembers a tragic childhood moment.

GRAND LUNCHEONNETTE, Directed by Peter Sillen

5 min - 2005 - USA - English - Color

"Grand Luncheonette" documents the last days of one of 42nd Street's unforgettable lunch counters.

BARBARA LEATHER, Directed by Seth Lind

10 min - 2005 - USA - English - Color

Pioneer craftswoman Barbara Shaum muses on the art of leather crafting, her first sip of ale in NYC's oldest men's-only pub, and her pickiest client-- Chiki the llama.

LA VIE D'UN CHIEN, Directed by John Harden

14 min - 2005 - USA - French / English Subtitles - B&W

A scientist formulates a serum that transforms him into a dog,but it's only when he changes back into a human that his troubles begin.

EGG, Directed by Benh Zeitlin

9 min - 2005 - USA - English - Color

This surrealistic interpretation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick tells a microscopic tale of epic tragedy.

JETTISON YOUR LOVED ONES, Directed by Ray Tintori

6 min - 2005 - USA - English - B&W

A man addicted to faking his own death strives for glory while his abandoned son, a boxer who thinks he's from the future, falls in love with his half-sister, the world's greatest swordfighter.

SPIN, Directed by Jamin Winans

8 min - 2005 - USA - Color

A mysterious DJ is sent to a city block to mend a series of chain reactions that occur in our everyday lives.

PATTERNS, Directed by Jamie Travis

9 min - 2005 - Canada - English - Color

Pauline waits for a phone call, misses the phone call, gets the phone call and regrets the phone call in this stylized allegory of innocence and experience.

TWITCH, Directed by Leah Meyerhoff

10 min - 2005 - USA - English - Color

Unable to find the emotional intimacy she craves, a young girl must come to terms with her emerging sexuality, her disabled mother and the irrational fear that her mother's disability is contagious.

VACATIONLAND, Directed by Lance Edmands

28 min - 2006 - USA - English - Color

Two young brothers journey across the back roads of Maine on their bicycles hoping to reunite with their older brother, but when things don't go as planned, and home is miles away-- the meaning of family begins to change.

Newly Re-Mastered! Joe Pacheco, Curator of the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series, has selected 10 stellar shorts film for this DVD compilation.

details: They have all played at major festivals and won important awards but, most importantly, they have played at Pacheco's screening series, which takes place every other Monday at Barbes, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.

TRUE STORY, Directed by Stephanie Via

3 min - 2006 - USA - English - B&W

An elderly woman remembers a tragic childhood moment.

GRAND LUNCHEONNETTE, Directed by Peter Sillen

5 min - 2005 - USA - English - Color

"Grand Luncheonette" documents the last days of one of 42nd Street's unforgettable lunch counters.

BARBARA LEATHER, Directed by Seth Lind

10 min - 2005 - USA - English - Color

Pioneer craftswoman Barbara Shaum muses on the art of leather crafting, her first sip of ale in NYC's oldest men's-only pub, and her pickiest client-- Chiki the llama.

LA VIE D'UN CHIEN, Directed by John Harden

14 min - 2005 - USA - French / English Subtitles - B&W

A scientist formulates a serum that transforms him into a dog,but it's only when he changes back into a human that his troubles begin.

EGG, Directed by Benh Zeitlin

9 min - 2005 - USA - English - Color

This surrealistic interpretation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick tells a microscopic tale of epic tragedy.

JETTISON YOUR LOVED ONES, Directed by Ray Tintori

6 min - 2005 - USA - English - B&W

A man addicted to faking his own death strives for glory while his abandoned son, a boxer who thinks he's from the future, falls in love with his half-sister, the world's greatest swordfighter.

SPIN, Directed by Jamin Winans

8 min - 2005 - USA - Color

A mysterious DJ is sent to a city block to mend a series of chain reactions that occur in our everyday lives.

PATTERNS, Directed by Jamie Travis

9 min - 2005 - Canada - English - Color

Pauline waits for a phone call, misses the phone call, gets the phone call and regrets the phone call in this stylized allegory of innocence and experience.

TWITCH, Directed by Leah Meyerhoff

10 min - 2005 - USA - English - Color

Unable to find the emotional intimacy she craves, a young girl must come to terms with her emerging sexuality, her disabled mother and the irrational fear that her mother's disability is contagious.

VACATIONLAND, Directed by Lance Edmands

28 min - 2006 - USA - English - Color

Two young brothers journey across the back roads of Maine on their bicycles hoping to reunite with their older brother, but when things don't go as planned, and home is miles away-- the meaning of family begins to change.    more...