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Filmmaker David Moore of Eyekiss Films receives a different artistic challenge every time he makes a short film for Dailies, PushPush Theater’s gonzo hybrid of stage and screen.

For Dailies III: Lost and Found, 10 stage actors, including Daniel Pettrow, Claire Bronson and Randy Cohlmia, recorded bits of dialogue or narration taken from plays or other sources. Then they each gave a recording to a director or video artist, who has created a short movie using only stock or “found” film footage to accompany the audio.

For Moore’s film, actor Brad Brooks recorded a passage in which search-and-rescue workers discuss what goes through their minds when they’re trying to recover dead bodies. “In the audio,” says Moore, “what he’s saying could be about searching for anything, including something inside yourself.” For his as-yet-untitled film, Moore is editing together images of baptisms to accompany the text. “The words are about literally finding a physical dead body, but the images make the film about spirituality and renewal.”

On Sept. 26-28, PushPush will screen the 10 short films, which include those made by subMedia, POP Films and other Atlanta filmmaking companies. “It’s really becoming a collaborative process,” says Rob Nixon, artistic director for PushPush and the coordinator and producer of Dailies. “The ideas for the different challenges have been coming from the filmmakers themselves.”

In addition to the Lost and Found shorts, the films from July’s Dailies II: Unification, in which five short, separately made movies were linked together to create the same “mockumentary,” will be screened.


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Dailies III: Lost and Found is Sept. 26-28 at 8 p.m. at PushPush Theater, 1123 Zonolite Road. $10. 404-892-7876. www.pushpushtheater.com.??