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Treeless Mountain
In an attempt to conjure up one word to describe So Yong Kim’s second film, Treeless Mountain, I immediately came up with melancholic. The story, based loosely on So Yong Kim’s childhood, revolves...
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Here Comes the Sun Queen (and Other Women With Vision)
3D Sun “I feel like I’m a woman with vision — in 3D,” says my fully dimensioned friend Melissa Butts, co-director of 3D Sun and principal force behind the Minneapolis-based Melrae Pictures. “Where I...
View ArticleNot Just Talking Heads
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zwmum5_ofU[/youtube] Astra Taylor, Canadian director of Žižek! has conquered and surpassed the traditional aesthetic realm of documentary filmmaking, by moving...
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Ana Mendieta: Restoring films, re-viewing a career
Question: Which of the following 70s artists was the most prolific filmmaker? Robert Smithson Walter de Maria Joan Jonas Nancy Holt Richard Serra Ana Mendieta Mary Kelly Vito Acconci Bruce Nauman...
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Treeless Mountain
So Yong Kim at the Women with Vision Festival at Walker Treeless Mountain, So Yong Kim’s second feature film is back in Minneapolis. The film screened this past March in the Walker Cinema as a part of...
View ArticleWomen With Vision: clips and trailers
35 Shots of Rum [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPDvNGruo2Y[/youtube] Lourdes [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Ec64c3T2I[/youtube] Pride of Lions...
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O’er the Land (of the Free): Deborah Stratman’s Epitaph for American Freedom
I started the film because I was thinking about how we’ve come to understand freedom in this country. More and more over the years, we think about freedom being tied to property ownership, and then...
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Laurel Nakadate’s “Dirty Old Men”
by Eric Jones Stay The Same Never Change A most appropriate teaser to the upcoming exhibition The Talent Show, Laurel Nakadate’s Stay the Same Never Change premieres at the Walker Cinema on Thursday,...
View ArticleWinter’s Bone
Director Debra Granik is no newcomer to the harshness of reality. Drawn to subjects with daunting conflicts, Granik’s work focuses on perhaps the grittier facets of life, but does so in a present,...
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Filmmaker Portraits: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
To celebrate the Walker’s 75th anniversary, Crosscuts will feature a series of filmmakers who have visited the art center over the last few decades. Consistently featured in the Walker’s Women with...
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