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Film/Video 1999 MIDWEST FILM AND VIDEO SHOWCASE PROGRAM FOUR SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1999, 7 PM $6 ($3 WALKER MEMBERS AND INTERMEDIA ARTS PARTNERS) AUDITORIUM MEMBERS PAY HALF PRICE!  |
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A FEW SIMPLE WORDS Having discovered that the graves of formerly institutionalized people in Minnesota were marked only with case numbers, a group of activists with developmental disabilities and their allies fight for dignity and respect in Jerry Smith's compelling documentary. 1998, Minnesota, Beta SP, 30 minutes. |
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CATHERINE'S DILEMMA
Inspired by René Magritte's painting Delusions of Grandeur, Mara Zoltners explores the elusive qualities of memory and longing through the fragmentation and repetition of image and sound. 1998, Minnesota, 1/2-inch video, 3 1/2-minutes. |
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SEGMENT A
Minneapolis College of Art and Design student Sarah McCulloch addresses the dislocation between her physical body and inner self in this experimental video. 1998, Minnesota, 1/2-inch video, 1 1/2-minutes. |
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FLOWER, THE BOY, THE LIBRARIAN
S. Barber creatively reworks material from instructional typing tapes and stock images from the 1950s to tell this love story. 1997, Wisconsin, 16mm, 4 minutes. |
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MONG JOONG Sang Ky Lee's three-part film explores the frustration and entrapment he felt after relocating to the Midwest from South Korea. 1997, Minnesota, S-VHS, 5 minutes. |
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CONDOR: A FILM FROM CALIFORNIA Freely mixing footage from instructional films and his own work, James T. Hong portrays the adverse conditions faced by the present-day California condor. 1998, Minnesota, 16mm, 7 minutes. |
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SCREWDRIVERS When a pair of 14-year-old girls get their hands on a bottle of vodka and a generic orange drink, it's big brother to the rescue in Benno Nelson's darkly comic Screwdrivers. 1998, Minnesota, 16mm, 7 minutes. |
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LAST SHOW: WHEELING TWIN DRIVE-IN
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee film and video graduate student Renato G. Umali commemorates the closing of the Loews Wheeling Twin Drive-In Theater in Wheeling, Illinois. 1997, Wisconsin, 16mm video, 4 minutes. |
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MAC DADDY Actor Tucker Fuller plays a sweet-talking candyman who falls on his face romancing the decidedly uninterested object of his affection in Matt Thiesen's comic video. 1998, Minnesota, 1/2-inch video, 7 minutes. |
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THE MAL DE MER TAPES 1-7 Matthew Wacker has created a series of semi-autobiographical sketches dealing with such subjects as taxidermy, nosebleeds, and the ghosts of relatives. 1999, Minnesota, 3/4-inch video, 8 minutes. |
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PEACE-FUL HELL
Reaper's Band is just rocking, not bothering anyone or creating a scene in this non-satanic music video by Jhannie Tolbert. 1998, Minnesota, 1/2-inch video, 7 minutes. |
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SHORTWAVE
Featured in the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival, Wyatt McDill's Shortwave focuses on the isolation of a young boy in the heartland and his longing for life in the big city. 1998, Minnesota, 16mm, 8 minutes. |
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ARE YOU IN THE MOOD?
Minnesota Center for Arts Education students Peggy Brown and Maren Wipf use hand-colored 16mm film and a multichannel sound collage in this independent PSA on safe sex. 1998, Minnesota, 1/2-inch video, 1 minute. |
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CORRUGATED
Lisa Smieja's experimental film is set in a world surreally clad in cardboard, where a young woman tries to cope with a tragic event in her life. 1997, Minnesota, 16mm, 6 minutes. |