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Film/Video DIG.IT OPENING NIGHT: DIGITAL GLIMPSES WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2001, 8 PM $6 ($4 WALKER MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM 
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Highlights include the scathing caricature of a contemporary Westerner in Japan, The Fuccon Family, by Kyupi Kyupi member Yoshimasa Ishibashi (2001, Japan, color, video, in Japanese with English subtitles, 10 minutes); the Atlas Group's experimental documentary Hostage: The Bachar Tapes, about the Western hostage crisis of the late 1980s (2000, U.S., color, video, 17 minutes); audiovisual works by Austrian artists Michaela Schwentner (Transistor, 2000, Austria, BW, video, 6 minutes) and Renate Oblak (Mobile V, Austria/The Netherlands, color, video, 3 minutes); Heal Me, directed by Hester Scheurwater and Roald de Boer, a work showing a half-naked woman in an empty space, vulnerable and helpless (2000, The Netherlands, color, video, 4 minutes); Cargo, a dreamy video diary about a stranded crew of a cargo ship (2001, The Netherlands, color, video, 29 minutes); the extremely rhythmic and whimsical Calma, by German director Alex Heim (2001, Germany, color, video, 4 minutes); and GTgranturismo, directed by Günther and Loredana Selichar (2001, Austria, color, video, 5 minutes). Program length: 90 minutes.