From: Ken Bawcom (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2009 - 23:59:17 PST
Sure wish these were available on DVD, especially "Chronic." It was
the first choice of all the screeners at the AAFF for that award that
year. We just kinda looked at each other, and said, that's it.
Ken B.
Quoting DOMINIC ANGERAME <email suppressed>:
> More new releases from Canyon Cinema...thanks.....Dominic
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> Jennifer Reeves
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> Monsters in the Closet
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> Dirty little girl stories, girl gangs, and other tales from the
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> 1993, 16mm, color/so, 15m, $55
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> The Girl's Nervy
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> Exuberant rhythms are created for the eyes in this nostalgic study of
> the single film frame, through cutting, pasting, and painting clear and
> photographed film images. Fleeting shapes in lush, spattered color
> flicker and dance to big band beats.
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> 1995, 16mm, color/so, 5m, $25
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> Chronic
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> Chronic is an experimental narrative about a young woman who began
> mutilating herself as a girl to cope with her bitter mid-western life.
> The lush optically-printed scenes take Gretchen’s point of view from
> her punk youth, a stay in a mental hospital, and her release into the
> big city. Scripted scenes are composited with documentary and found
> footage, illustrating the culture Gretchen lives in, her inner world
> and relationships from her birth to her final day.
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> Jerome Foundation Production Grant; Charlotte Film Festival: First
> Prize Experimental Film; Oberhausen International Short Film Festival:
> Main Prize of the International Competition and First Prize from the
> Jury of International Film Critics (FIPRESCI); Ann Arbor Film Festival:
> The Screening Committee’s Choice Award For Narrative Integrity, and The
> Tom Berman Most Promising Filmmaker Award; Images Festival of
> Independent Film and Video, Toronto: Marion McMahon Memorial Award;
> Shorts International Film Festival, N.Y.: Best Experimental Film; Black
> Maria Film Festival: Juror’s Choice; Christopher Wetzel Memorial Award,
> Honorable Mention: Art Institute of Chicago.
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> Cast:Jennifer Reeves, Noelle Kalom, Barbara Lee , Bill Bronson, Jeanne
> Liotta, Richard Harrington, Chelsea Penneabaker, Robbin Shahani, Mary
> Brezovich, Joe Gibbons.
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> 1996, 16mm, color/so, 38m, $152
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