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“With high school graduation looming, Kati is just three days from entering the real world, and nothing seems to be going right. Her friends are saying good-bye, her parents are located hundreds of miles away, and her fiancé, James, is stuck in his mother's tight grip. Kati spends her last moments indulging in teenage folly – bad sing-alongs in the car, afternoon pool parties, arcade trips – and fighting with James and her parents about her life. As Kati grapples with her future, her half-brother, director Robert Greene, and standout cinematographer Sean Williams (Frownland, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo) tag along, capturing gorgeous and incredibly intimate footage of two teenagers at a crossroads. Both a skillful portrait of teenage angst and a dreamlike meditation on the passing of youth, Kati with an I is a film to get lost in.” – True/False Film Festival (2010, 86 min.)

“Peter Sillen (Benjamin Smoke) directed this fine documentary, about the songwriter, performance artist, and poet Jesse Bernstein, and grabbed its title from a poem by Bernstein, ‘Come Out Tonight,’ which was a calling card, an inspiration, and an anthem for the burgeoning grunge-rock movement in the Northwest in the late eighties. Sillen brings together a wealth of video and audio clips of Bernstein along with interviews with the artist’s friends, family, and colleagues and striking footage of the beautiful, darker side of Seattle. It’s clear early on that the story is not going to end well, given Bernstein’s lifelong struggle with mental illness—he died in 1991, at the age of forty—but Sillen finds nobility in the poet’s ceaseless commitment to observation, self-examination, and what he called just plain ‘doing your job.’” – Ken Marks, The New Yorker (Peter Sillen, 2010, 84 min., USA)