Titular Head

Titular Head Film Festival is the annual springtime film festival hosted by Grinnell College. All films entered into the festival are student made and produced. Award-winning, Internet-available entrants past and present include Star Wars Grinnell 1, Racquetball Tunak Tunak Tun 2 and High Stakes 3.

History

In 1992, Titular Head showed Quantum [...], a music video to the song "Quantum [...]" by the band Quantum [...]. The video included several minutes of hardcore [...]. That same year, two separate films (Lethal Wimp and 21) commemorated the campus pub, commonly known as The Bar, which had closed in 1991.

In 2003, audience response to a lengthy student adaptation of Romeo and Juliet was so negative that the festival has since imposed a five-minute length limit on all submissions. Titular Head's page on GrinnellPlans warns, "Anything over 5 minutes May Be subject to cuts, unless it totally kicks [...]."

The 2003 winner was "Racquetball Tunak Tunak Tun."

The 2009 winner was "Star Wars Grinnell."

The 2009 second place winner was "Call On Me."