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Poems and Problems (shorts program)
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Lost
DIR JEANNE FINLEY, JOHN MUSE
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 3:48 MIN
Lost combines a segment of an audio diary by Chaplin Major Eric Olson with a single, evolving shot of a former military base where dense fog obscures and reveals details of the landscape. The original video footage reframes the moral ambiguities of the diary segment, which chronicles what Olson calls "a very legitimate shooting" of an Iraqi by American soldiers and their efforts to assist the Iraqi's widow. -J. Finley
Part of the shorts program Poems and Problems.
Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, the Law, and Poetry
DIR PAUL CHAN
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 17:30 MIN
"Simple and moving portrait of Lynne F, Stewart, the New York lawyer convicted in 2005 of aiding Islamic terrorism by smuggling messages out of jail from a client she was defending, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Now disbarred, Ms. Stewart faces a 30-year jail sentence. In the portrait, Lynne Stewart talks about her life as an elementary school librarian, activist and lawyer, and recites poetry by Blake, Brecht and Ashbury." Video Data Bank
Part of the shorts program Poems and Problems.
Capital
DIR RUTH MACLENNAN
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO 16:00 MIN INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
"Capital is a subjective series of stark encounters and trancelike wanderings through a city under construction. The unnamed city is Astana, Kazkahstan's new capital founded by President Nursultan Nazarbayev in 1997, to consolidate his power base, and make his mark on the country. The camera acts as an invisible protagonist drifting through the lives of the city's inhabitants. The voice of a stranger to the city addresses the founder-ruler, conjuring up visions of the future, present and past of the unnamed capital. The film evokes a dream state, and in it, a dreamed up city, somewhere in the world. The dream city is in conflict with a real, suppressed past and people existing in that past, who are being forced into a glossy but oppressive future. The film echoes past tales of travelers to Central Asia, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and even the Thousand and One Nights where the story-teller's ability to perform a role and tell a tale is a question of survival. - R. Maclennan
Part of the shorts program Poems and Problems.
The Mendi
DIR STEVE REINKE
ANIMATION 16MM ON VIDEO 9:00 MIN
Over found footage from The Mendi--an ethnographic documentary made for the CBC's Man Alive television show in the 1970s--the narrator tells of his summer as a teenage assistant to the filmmakers. In the tradition of Bunuel's Land Without Bread. Video Data Bank
Part of the shorts program Poems and Problems.
The Professor
DIR JASON PRICE
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 25:00 MIN
Former law professor and Supreme Court justice David D. Kpormakpor served as Interim President of Lib
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