I have zero expectation that this will bear fruit. I’m looking for two student films from the University of Minnesota made in the early 1970s.
For the first film I have title (maybe): G’s Last Cocktail Party. The title could possibly be “Gene’s Last Cocktail Party”. I think it is about a man who murders everyone at a cocktail party after his three or four year old son dies. It is possible the son doesn’t die, but is G or Gene remembering his younger self. There may be a scene where the child is running about in lederhosen.
I know even less about the second film. There is a scene where a young boy, four or five, approaches a guy who is standing in front of a chain link fence. The boy asks the guy what’s wrong and they guy shoves the kid into the fence. There is also a scene with the guys dead dog.
I have sent email to the University of Minnesota film department, but they have not replied. G’s last Cocktail party won an award from an international student film festival that I think was based in Europe.
The reason I am seeking these films is because I was the little boy. My mother went to U of M and was friends with several people in the film school. I saw one or both of the films at a showing at the university, but I may have been outside playing in the snow when they ran as I recall being bored with some of the material they were showing.
Any help would be greatly appriciated.