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This week [July 19 - 27, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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The LAB (Location: San Francisco, CA, USA; No entry deadline)
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Pantheon Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 7.0 (Cyprus; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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OFF: true-school underground film festival (Lausanne, Switzerland; Deadline: August 01, 2008)
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International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Winterthur, Switzerland; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Visual Music At Expressions Gallery [July 19, Berkeley, California]
* 2nd Annual Music video Festival Program/Mission Creek Film/Video Festival
2008 [July 19, San Francisco, California]
* The Believers [July 20, San Francisco, California]
* C Red Blue J/Mission Creek Film/Video Festival 2008 [July 20, San Francisco, California]
* Spectacle Spectacular [July 22, Brooklyn, New York]
* Shelter: A Squatumentary [July 22, San Francisco, California]
* The Last Zapatistas, Forgotten Heroes/Presented By Ata At Carlos Club [July 24, San Francisco, California]
* Digital Kinesis 01: An Evening of Digital video With visiting Artist
Gregg Biermann [July 25, Dallas, TX]
* Delineating Borders: the Films of Jesse Lerner [July 25, New York, New York]
* Delineating Borders: the Films of Jesse Lerner [July 26, New York, New York]
* Harlan County Usa/A Fundraiser For Asian Pacific Islander Movement
Building Network [July 26, San Francisco, California]
* Red Hook Cine Soiree! [July 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Delineating Borders: the Films of Jesse Lerner [July 27, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2008
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7/19
Berkeley, California: Expressions Gallery
http://expressionsgallery.org
7pm, 2035 Ashby Avenue, (near Ashby BART Station)
VISUAL MUSIC AT EXPRESSIONS GALLERY
Expressions Gallery presents prize-winning filmmaker Melanie Hofmann
with composer Steve Capper in a program of abstract videos with
electronic soundtracks. When: 7-9 pm, July 19, 2008 What: Movies: Visual
Music at Expressions Gallery Who: Melanie Hofmann and Steve Capper
Where: Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703 (near
the Ashby BART Station) Admission: Free Public Info: 510-644-4930,
email suppressed www.expressionsgallery.org Contact: Loren
Means, email suppressed Melanie Hofmann graduated with a BFA in
Textiles from the California College of the Arts in 1996. Her home and
studio are located in Berkeley. She had the privilege of attending one
of the original Bay Area "Free" Schools, Pinel, in the Sixties. At Pinel
and later living in Berkeley as a teenager, she was immersed in the
Psychedelic culture of the era. This influence has manifested itself in
her digital video work that will be featured at a screening on July 19,
from 7 - 8 pm at Expressions Gallery in Berkeley. One of the films in
that show, "Obsession" recently won a prize at the Twin Rivers Media
Festival. Some of her digital video work can be viewed at
http://www.youtube.com/51352468. Melanie started out using digital
technology to do the design process for her printed textiles. She uses
the scanner extensively in her digital work, scanning in such things as
leaves, flowers, crystals, and photographs which are then transformed in
Photoshop. Melanie's projected artwork was featured in the Shotgun
Players performance of Arabian Night in the spring of 2005. In other
media, Melanie has received awards from the Taegu International Textile
Design competition and from Manhattan Arts International. Her work in
textiles, ceramics, and photography can be purchased at
http://www.cafepress.com/melhof. Steve Capper, a musician, has
collaborated with Melanie on a number of projects. He composes his
pieces while viewing the work. He played keyboard, drums, and guitar as
part of the punk rock/reggae music scene in London in the Seventies, and
wrote songs in these genres. He got his first synthesizer in the early
Nineties. He uses a Roland Fantom 6 synthesizer for composing as well as
live performance.
7/19
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
2ND ANNUAL MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL PROGRAM/MISSION CREEK FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL
2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008. 8PM $7 2nd Annual Music Video Festival Program
Mission Creek Film/video festival 2008 San Francisco pop band BLAMMOS
looks to bring the local independent music community together by
exploring and showcasing music videos by other bands, artists and
filmmakers, teaming up with the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival to
present the 2nd Annual Bay Area Indie Music Video Festival. The event
will be hosted by BLAMMOS, and will feature the works of unsigned
artists from the greater Bay Area. To submit, your video must be
independently produced, under 5 minutes, and sent to
email suppressed via web link no later than July 16th. All
genres are welcome.
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SUNDAY, JULY 20, 2008
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7/20
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
6pm, 992 Valencia Street
THE BELIEVERS
Sunday, July 20, 2008. 6PM $7 The Believers Mission Creek Film/video
festival 2008 Recipient of the Frameline 30 Audience Award for Best
Documentary and of a 2005 Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund grant,
The Believers is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters
assumptions about faith, gender, and religion. Built around the world's
first transgender gospel choir, the film portrays the choir's dilemma -
how to reconcile their gender identity with the widespread belief that
changing one's gender goes against the word of God. The Believers is a
unique story of determination and perseverance and an important look at
the intricacy and diversity of spirituality and the LGBT
community.Directed by Todd Holland, 2006.
7/20
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
C RED BLUE J/MISSION CREEK FILM/VIDEO FESTIVAL 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008. 8PM $7 C RED BLUE J is an experimental
documentary feature that uses the director Christopher Sollars' family
including: his sister Jennifer who works for the Bush Administration,
Fred his Born Again father, and Karen his Lesbian mother, to illustrate
the complications of division during the 2004 Presidential election.
During the Fall of 2004, Sollars, an artist living and working in San
Francisco, flew to Washington D.C. to get a first hand look at his
"Young Republican" sister's world. Jennifer is an appointee by the Bush
Administration for Alternative and Renewable Energy within the
Department of Energy and is working on the new Bush's Hydrogen Plans. C
RED BLUE J is pieced together through an archive of family super-8
films, photos, interviews, and art videos. The story personalizes the
political division of the 2004 Presidential campaign as the Gay Marriage
Vote is tactically used to split the Nation's vote and the director's
family. C RED BLUE J puts a face to the name of the opposition and
reconstructs the lack of communication within a family and the nation.
Directed by Chris Sollars (2007)
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TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2008
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7/22
Brooklyn, New York: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
8 PM, 55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
SPECTACLE SPECTACULAR
Curated by Ben Coonley and Michael Smith On the hottest day of the
summer, Ben Coonley and Michael Smith planted a tripod-mounted camcorder
in the center of the Light Industry loft space and made several dozen
360-degree pans to catalogue every square inch of the walls, windows,
pipes, ceiling elements, furniture, fans, A/V equipment and
miscellaneous debris in the room. They found hidden miniature treasures:
speaker cables leading up and away to invisible spaces, baseboard paint
blobs in the shape of trompe l'oeil mouse holes, lunar landscapes on the
surfaces of massive cement columns and newly-installed sheetrock. They
zoomed outside the back window facing the East River clear across to the
Statue of Liberty. Down in the parking lot an ice cream truck began its
route and tested its loudspeakers, a school bus shook and rattled as it
turned a corner, a tractor-trailer screeched to a stop, and workers
unloaded crates of raw material onto a freight elevator. With each
successive camera rotation, mounting temperatures conspired with
site-specific demands of the loft and surrounding environment,
eventually giving shape to a hallucinatory polyphonic program of films
and videos tracking Ben and Mike's idiosyncratic and meandering
curatorial digressions. Taking its title from Harrison Marks's seminal
film about a myopic executive whose perception is transformed after he
finds an enormous wishbone in his turkey sandwich, Spectacle Spectacular
offers a leisurely summer excursion for the senses, a "Circle Line" tour
of context and space. The program includes an audience-immersive
simulcast tableau of the Sunset Park sunset, followed by an eclectic
grouping of work by Jason Burch, Peter Gidal, Karen Leo, Xander Marro,
Harrison Marks, Xan Price, Stuart Sherman, Cauleen Smith and the Kids
from Kidstock.
7/22
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
SHELTER: A SQUATUMENTARY
Tuesday, July 22, 2008. 8PM $6 Shelter: a Squatumentary By Hannah E.
Dobbz With universally skyrocketing property values, rent and
home-ownership have become unaffordable at best and impossible at worst.
Thus, people all over the world continue a long tradition of
circumventing the expensive price tag and reclaiming this basic human
right by squatting. *Shelter: a Squatumentary* is a documentary film
that explores the squatting movement in the East Bay from 2004 to 2007.
We follow three examples of the struggle for housing in an unaffordable
marketplace such as the San Francisco Bay Area. Hellarity House, Banana
House, and Power Machine are stories of squatters who have found one
tentative solution to the ongoing housing crisis. Directed by Hannah E.
Dobbz, 45 min. (2008) Bio: Hannah E. Dobbz is a freelance writer,
editor, and filmmaker. She has spent countless hours working with the
now-defunct Fault Lines editorial collective and Indymedia in San
Francisco, and she appeared on the "Indymedia is Not Dead" panel at last
year's Allied Media Conference in Detroit. Her articles have been
published in Fault Lines and Maximum Rock 'n Roll, with topics
surrounding activism, squatting, DIY, and punk.
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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2008
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7/24
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
7pm, 992 Valencia Street
THE LAST ZAPATISTAS, FORGOTTEN HEROES/PRESENTED BY ATA AT CARLOS CLUB
hursday, July 24, 2008. 7pm Door, 8:30PM screening *This outdoor
screening will take place on the back patio of Carlos Club (3278 Mission
Street) at the intersection of 24th and Mission, right off the BART.
Arrive early for food, drinks, and to marvel at Carlos Club's painting
of Emiliano Zapata* *presented by Artists' Television Access' Global
Undergrounds series, Workers International League, and Carlos Club*
Thursday, July 24 - 7 pm barbecue and drinks, 8:30 pm showtime, free
*The Last Zapatistas, Forgotten Heroes* is the chilling testimony of the
soldiers who fought beside their General Emiliano Zapata in the 1910
Mexican Revolution. Almost one hundred years later, these survivors of
the legendary Liberation Army of the South reveal a truth not to be
found in any book. They speak of the failure of the Revolution and of
today's neoliberal governments, of the agrarian and ecological disaster
threatening their country and of imminent civil war if the Zapatista
ideals they represent continue to be ignored. These men and women are
chapters of unjust history, abandoned wisdom, banners for Mexico's
underprivileged .... they are the Forgotten Heroes. Directed by
Francesco Taboada Tabone, 2002, 70 minutes (This documentary includes
the historic encounter between members of the Zapatista National
Liberation Army and the Zapatista veterans). *OFFICIAL SELECTION* - Los
Angeles Latino International Film Festival - Festival de Cine Latino de
San Francisco - Festival Dias de Cine Latinoamericano, Hamburgo,
Alemania - Newport Beach International Film Festival - Pennsylvania
Internacional Film Festival - Festival de Cine Documental de Belo
Horizonte, Brazil - XXVIII Jornada Internacional de Cinema da Bahia,
Brazil - Muestra Internacional de Cine Documental de Bogotá, Colombia -
Festival de Cine Latino Sí-Sí-Cine, Toronto, Canada - Festival del Nuevo
Cine Latinoamericano de la Habana, Cuba - Nominated for the Ariel , the
highest award (equivalent to the Oscar in the United States) given by
the Mexican Academy of Film Science and Art, in the long documentary
category. - El estreno en Cines fue el 17 de abril de 2001 en la
Cineteca Nacional en Ciudad de México. *Los Últimos Zapatistas, Héroes
Olvidados*
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FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2008
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7/25
Dallas, TX: Centraltrak University of Texas at Dallas Artist Residency
http://www.utdallas.edu/centraltrak/index2.htm
8PM, 800 Exposition Ave
DIGITAL KINESIS 01: AN EVENING OF DIGITAL VIDEO WITH VISITING ARTIST
GREGG BIERMANN
Digital Kinesis 01: is an evening of kinetic digital video with its
roots in the avant-garde film tradition. Works to be presented are:
Another Picture - 2007, 4 minutes; Happy Again - 2006, 5 minutes; The
Hills Are Alive - 2005, 7 minutes; Spherical Coordinates – 2005, 8 ½
minutes; The Waters of Casablanca 2002, 6 minutes; Cinema Study - 2003,
7 minutes; Paradiso (Material Excess - Part 3)2003, 23 minutes;
Hackensack Motet – 2006, 5 minutes. Gregg Biermann in person.
7/25
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 P.M., 32 Second Ave. (at 2nd Street)
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER Jesse Lerner is a
filmmaker, writer, curator and professor based in Los Angeles whose
'fake documentaries' fall somewhere between docudramas, essays and
collage. Co-author of the book F IS FOR PHONY (with Alexandra Juhasz,
University of Minnesota Press) and, with Rita Gonzalez, co-creator of
the touring film-series and publication THE MEXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, as a
filmmaker Lerner utilizes found-footage, recovered images, suppressed
narratives and copious research. He employs fiction, native voices and
the historical record to addresses topics such as Mexican-American
cultural relations, mestizaje identity and the geographical/emotional
entanglements inherent in the border. Watching Lerner's refreshingly
inquisitive, expansive films one is reminded time and again that truth
is made, not told. JESSE LERNER WILL BE PRESENT TO HOST THIS
THREE-PROGRAM SURVEY. "Unlike familiar mainstream documentaries in which
titles and an omniscient narrator tell us what to think about the
images, Lerner's films create disparities between image and spoken text
that encourage the viewer's active participation." –Fred Camper, CHICAGO
READER PROGRAM 1: FRONTIERLAND 1995, 77 minutes, 16mm. Co-directed by
Ruben Ortiz Torres. Equal parts traditional documentary, postmodern
travelogue, art film, music video, and public-access agit-prop,
FRONTIERLAND fashions a perfumed nightmare from the varied fragments of
our post-colonial world. The title refers not to a location but rather
to those spaces wherein cultures intertwine. As this film demonstrates,
mestizaje is not so much a racial category as a state of mind. Besides
homages to Luis Buñuel and Kenneth Anger, watch for the bravura
long-take that brings together Aztec pyramids and Mexico City's Plaza
del Zócalo as part of a bleak landscape populated by nuns, vatos,
wrestlers and la migra. A more literal description would be a betrayal
of the film's many surprises. –Friday, July 25 at 7:30.
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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2008
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7/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 P.M., 32 Second Ave. (at 2nd Street)
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER Jesse Lerner is a
filmmaker, writer, curator and professor based in Los Angeles whose
'fake documentaries' fall somewhere between docudramas, essays and
collage. Co-author of the book F IS FOR PHONY (with Alexandra Juhasz,
University of Minnesota Press) and, with Rita Gonzalez, co-creator of
the touring film-series and publication THE MEXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, as a
filmmaker Lerner utilizes found-footage, recovered images, suppressed
narratives and copious research. He employs fiction, native voices and
the historical record to addresses topics such as Mexican-American
cultural relations, mestizaje identity and the geographical/emotional
entanglements inherent in the border. Watching Lerner's refreshingly
inquisitive, expansive films one is reminded time and again that truth
is made, not told. JESSE LERNER WILL BE PRESENT TO HOST THIS
THREE-PROGRAM SURVEY. "Unlike familiar mainstream documentaries in which
titles and an omniscient narrator tell us what to think about the
images, Lerner's films create disparities between image and spoken text
that encourage the viewer's active participation." –Fred Camper, CHICAGO
READER PROGRAM 1: PROGRAM 2: RUINS 1999, 78 minutes, 16mm.
Counterfeiting is a practice with broad and devious implications, from
the simplest fake objects to entire histories shaped as facsimile. The
provocative RUINS takes the forger's art and applies it to the
appropriation of (in this case Mexican) culture. Stitching together
newsreel snippets, travelogia and stagy rants, Lerner tackles early
colonial misconceptions and distortions of Mexican culture. Focusing on
Brigido Lara, a master forger whose 'pre-Columbian' objects have been
(unwittingly) displayed in major museums throughout the U.S. and Europe,
Lerner charts the process that severs Mayan and Aztec archaeological
objects from their origins and re-contextualizes them as art within the
confines of museum walls. What distinguishes the real from the fake?
–Saturday, July 26 at 7:30.
7/26
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8m, 992 Valencia Street
HARLAN COUNTY USA/A FUNDRAISER FOR ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER MOVEMENT
BUILDING NETWORK
Saturday, July 26, 2008. 8PM $6-$50 HARLAN COUNTY USA a fundraiser for
Asian Pacific Islander Movement Building Network Barbara Kopple's
Academy Award–winning *Harlan County USA* unflinchingly documents a
grueling coal miners' strike in a small Kentucky town. With
unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners' sometimes
violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs.
Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass
artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence
Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle
between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to
the bottom line.
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SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2008
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7/27
Brooklyn, New York: BWAC
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/screenings.html
2PM, 499 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook
RED HOOK CINE SOIREE!
Guest Programmer Joel Schlemowitz presents a salon of experimental and
underground films from cine-artists Jimmy Kinder, zaza m., Caryn Cline,
Fabio Roberti (Directart Productions Ltd.), Kelly Fancher, Jennifer
MacMillan, Bradley Eros, Sheri Wills, Jennifer Matotek, Seth Mitter,
Florens Fanciulli, and Donna Cameron. A summer afternoon and short works
of avant-garde cinema? Our agenda is to program our soiree attuned to
the enchantment of the season of Mid-Summer Nights' Dreams, to indulge
ourselves in the hazy and lazy segment of the calendar, to enlighten
ourselves lightly and sprightly, to work Puckish mischief on the screen,
to take respite from the oppressive sun in the magic lantern parlor by
the sea. Expect red wine and soft cheese, possibly sangria, and 1920s
foxtrots on the Victrola! Screening room is on the first floor,
accessible to all. . . . . http://www.bwac.org/directions
7/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 P.M., 32 Second Ave. (at 2nd Street)
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER Jesse Lerner is a
filmmaker, writer, curator and professor based in Los Angeles whose
'fake documentaries' fall somewhere between docudramas, essays and
collage. Co-author of the book F IS FOR PHONY (with Alexandra Juhasz,
University of Minnesota Press) and, with Rita Gonzalez, co-creator of
the touring film-series and publication THE MEXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, as a
filmmaker Lerner utilizes found-footage, recovered images, suppressed
narratives and copious research. He employs fiction, native voices and
the historical record to addresses topics such as Mexican-American
cultural relations, mestizaje identity and the geographical/emotional
entanglements inherent in the border. Watching Lerner's refreshingly
inquisitive, expansive films one is reminded time and again that truth
is made, not told. JESSE LERNER WILL BE PRESENT TO HOST THIS
THREE-PROGRAM SURVEY. "Unlike familiar mainstream documentaries in which
titles and an omniscient narrator tell us what to think about the
images, Lerner's films create disparities between image and spoken text
that encourage the viewer's active participation." –Fred Camper, CHICAGO
READER PROGRAM 3: MAGNAVOZ 2006, 25 minutes, 16mm. An experimental
adaptation of Xavier Icaza's speculative rant on the future of
post-revolutionary Mexico. Fusing noisy broadcasts from atop volcanoes,
raucous bacchanalia at popular watering holes, and apocalyptic,
hyper-nationalistic pronouncements, it is a timely and prescient
meditation, though it was written more than eighty years ago. T.S.H.
2004, 6 minutes, 16mm. Based on the Estridentista poem by Luis
Quintanilla (a.k.a. Kyn Taniya). The Estridentistas were a vanguard
group similar to and influenced by the more familiar Dadaists and
Futurists, who shared with these other radical art movements the
rejection of tradition in favor of estrangement and fragmentation. Like
the Russian Constructivists, they saw their art as part of a larger
project of sweeping social transformation, the building of a new,
industrial, egalitarian society. T.S.H. is an homage to a poorly-tuned
radio, and finds transcendence, excitement and beauty in the ether. THE
AMERICAN EGYPT 2001, 57 minutes, 16mm. This film revisits the first
socialist government of the Americas, created during the Mexican
Revolution on the Yucatan peninsula (1915-24). Attempts to secede in the
19th century suggest Yucatan was, like Texas and California, only
imperfectly attached to the Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Lerner revisits
the Revolution that arrived late, but which ultimately took on a much
more radical form, one resembling the early days of the Soviet Union.
The Yucatan hosted Mexico's first feminist congress, and it was here
that Carlos Martínez directed the country's first feature-length fiction
film. Mixing found-footage, reenactments, landscapes and a host of vivid
primary sources, THE AMERICAN EGYPT explores incidents in the early
history of globalization through the connections that link social
revolution, silent cinema and the suffragette movement. Total running
time: ca. 90 minutes. –Sunday, July 27 at 7:30.
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