| Cul de Sac
Director: Garrett Scott
Country: Oakland, CA
Running Time: 57 minutes
Format: video
Synopsis: In 1995, Shawn Nelson, an unemployed plumber from
Dan Diego, CA stole a tank and ran amok through his home suburb
of Clairmont. Filmmaker Garret Scott investigates the tank rampage
and the decline of a 20th century suburban landscape that has
“reached the end of its useful life.”
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Outlet
Director: Robert Banks
Country: Cleveland, Ohio
Running Time: 4 minutes
Format: video
Synopsis: What do women subject themselves to in order to maintain
the image that society dictates they have? This film is an intense
and outlandishly skeptical look at cosmetic beauty and the havoc
it can wreak on one’s persona.
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Sportello Quattro
Director: Kevin Jerome Everson
Country: Charlottesville, VA
Running Time: 6 minutes
Format: video
Synopsis: A four part piece that includes “72”,
an African American taxi driver’s day in high contrast black
and white. Fleeting images sail across the screen. The viewer
rides in the car like a customer of the gregarious cabbie as the
landscape frantically slides by.
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Well Well Well
Director: Elisabeth Subrin
Country: Chicago, IL
Running Time: 4 minutes
Format: video
Synopsis: This is a funky experimental music video for electro-feminist-performance-artists
Le Tigre. With an early 80’s MTV aesthetic, this video unpacks
a thoroughly current obsession: the hidden erotics of office supplies.
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NYC: 9/11
Director: John Schnall
Country: Bloomfield, NJ
Running Time: 1 minute
Format: video
Synopsis: In the weeks after September 11, New York was a different
city. This animated film compactly portrays the transformation
from a blaring, cacophonous metropolis into a caring community.
Presented by: Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado, Ph. D.
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