Swamp rock and cinema at the Viaduct

Evanston swamp rockers The Howlin’ Tumbleweeds host the first Muddy River Film Festival this Friday at the Viaduct Theater.

Here’s the lineup of short films:

Danny Plotnick’s ode to late 20th century counterculture Out of Print

Lisa Barcy’s meditative animation Mermaid

Anthony Williams’s horror pic The Sanguine Woods

Jerzy Rose’s World War II-style sci-fi The Universe & Young Pilot Nelson

Joe DeJulius, Matt Kelley, Scott Lynch and Joe Avella’s time-travel detective farce FutureCop 2010

Anna Peterson‘s The Furnace Room/What The Devil

Bradley Bischoff‘s lovesick artist’s daydream Eyelids

The Muddy River Film Festival is Friday at 9 PM at the Viaduct Theater, 3111 N. Western.  Also featuring local roots rockers The Canoes, “live and uncensored.”  $7.  18 & over.

Here’s Barcy’s Mermaid reworked to Andrew Bird‘s “Lull”: