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From the Archive: Unpacking the Stage Set
A photograph of Ron Vawter’s stage set for Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1992) in the Walker’s American Tableaux exhibition (2001) While I was writing about Jack Smith’s sumptuous film, Normal Love (1963–65) as...
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Conditioning: Typography and Moving Image
Opening sequences, title cards, interludes, subtitles, end credits: typography in cinema and television is quickly evidenced and it is never neutral. To consider some key precedents one need only think...
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Filmmaker Portraits: Gregg Araki
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. Araki during his 1989 visit to the Walker to...
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Filmmaker Portraits: Kenneth Anger
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. In 1980, Anger visited the Walker to premiere...
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Filmmaker Portraits: Cheryl Dunye
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. Dunye during her 1999 residency at the Walker....
View ArticleDear White People : Conversation with the Director
Addressing race issues on campuses today, Dear White People director Justin Simien, producer Effie Brown, and actors Tyler James Williams and Tessa Thompson joined Leola Johnson from Macalester...
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Passings: Screenwriter/Producer/Actor L.M. Kit Carson (1941–2014)
Lawrence Schiller, Dennis Hopper, and L.M. Kit Carson on set of The American Dreamer. ©Polaris Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Photo courtesy Lawrence Schiller, 1971 L.M. Kit Carson, perhaps...
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Film without Film: Derek Jarman’s Blue
An exhibition installation of Derek Jarman’s Blue at the Walker When filmmaker Derek Jarman publicly declared himself HIV positive in 1987, he acknowledged that the public would “expect” a response...
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Vampire Western in Farsi Makes Minneapolis Premiere in the Walker Cinema
Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Photo: Kino Lorber, 2014 This weekend the Walker Cinema starts its weekend run of the Sundance hit A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Director Ana...
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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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Walker Veteran Miranda July Returns with Performance Piece New Society
Miranda July is an artist traversing many mediums. From film to fiction, performance art to installation, July explores the complicated ways that humans communicate. She is frequently at the center of...
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Filmmaker Portrait: Pauline Kael
Fully formed in 1973, the Walker Art Center’s Film/Video department has hosted a range of filmmakers, actors, and critics through its extensive programs of screenings, artist talks, and residencies....
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Filmmaker Portrait: Julie Dash
Fully formed in 1973, the Walker Art Center’s Film/Video department has hosted a range of filmmakers, actors, and critics through its extensive programs of screenings, artist talks, and residencies....
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Filmmaker Portrait: Alan Berliner
Berliner during his year-long residency at the Walker in 2001. What is in a name? According to Alan Berliner, everything. The independent filmmaker from New York visited the Walker many times over the...
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Filmmaker Portrait: Michael Powell
Fully formed in 1973, the Walker Art Center’s Film/Video department has hosted a range of filmmakers, actors, and critics through its extensive programs of screenings, artist talks, and residencies....
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Palme d’Or Winning Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan visits Minneapolis
Actor Mehmet Eryilmaz and director Nuri Bilge Ceylan during their November 2014 visit to the Walker. Acclaimed Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan visited the Walker earlier this month to introduce his...
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Filmmaker Portrait: Arthur Dong
Fully formed in 1973, the Walker Art Center’s Film/Video department has hosted a range of filmmakers, actors, and critics through its extensive programs of screenings, artist talks, and residencies....
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Filmmaker Portrait: Hany Abu-Assad
“This movie is not screaming…I will not force people to change their minds.” —Hany Abu-Assad Hany Abu-Assad’s 2005 film Paradise Now portrays the complex psychology behind Palestinian suicide...
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Filmmaker Portrait: Marlon Riggs
The early 1990s found America in the throes of a culture war. Publically funded art was the site of controversy, especially for Marlon Riggs. Riggs was a black, gay documentary filmmaker who...
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Waiting for a Film to Thaw: The Exchanges of Stan Brakhage and Sally Dixon,...
Stan Brakhage and Sally Dixon in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s projection booth. Photo: Robert Haller, circa 1975 Looking through the Walker’s Ruben/Bentson study collection recently, a short note...
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