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Urgent Cinema: Norah Shapiro on Ilhan Omar’s Campaign
Still from Norah Shapiro’s Time for Ilhan (working title), 2016. Image courtesy the artist Somali-born politician Ilhan Omar made history on August 9, 2016, when she became the Minnesota DFL...
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Urgent Cinema: Seeking Complex Representations of Black Life
Sha Cage (center) in E.G. Bailey’s New Neighbors, 2016. Image courtesy the artist In his 2016 short film New Neighbors, artist, filmmaker, and curator E.G. Bailey explores how race shapes daily...
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Urgent Cinema: Mahmoud Ibrahim and Nathan Fisher on Bureaucracy and...
Still from Mahmoud Ibrahim (at right) and Nathan Fisher’s Travel Documents, 2016. Image courtesy the artists In 2014, Mahmoud Ibrahim—a Lebanon-born Palestinian and an Iraqi refugee—and documentary...
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Urgent Cinema: Firearms in the Rural North
Still from Karl Jacob’s Cold November, 2016. Image courtesy the artist Filmmaker and actor Karl Jacob‘s newest film, Cold November, is the second installment in a trilogy on the culture of Northern...
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Urgent Cinema: Women Veterans and the Lasting Impact of War
Still from Remy Auberjonois’s Blood Stripe, 2016. Image courtesy the artist The 2016 recipient of the US Fiction Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, Blood Stripe is the story of a female war...
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Urgent Cinema: On Trauma, Forgiveness, and Restorative Justice
Still from Dawn Mikkelson’s Risking Light, 2016. Image courtesy the artist Former McKnight Filmmaking Fellow and award-winning filmmaker Dawn Mikkelson’s newest documentary follows four people—in the...
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Urgent Cinema: Winona LaDuke and the Enbridge Pipeline
Winona LaDuke in Keri Pickett’s First Daughter and the Black Snake, 2016. Image courtesy the artist These days, Winona LaDuke—an Anishinaabe activist and onetime Green Party vice presidential candidate...
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Urgent Cinema: Terrance Franklin and a Failure of Justice
Terrance Franklin in D.A. Bullock’s Killing Mookie, 2016. Image courtesy the artist Minnesota-based artist and filmmaker D.A. Bullock’s in-progress film Killing Mookie is a searing documentary essay on...
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Cinema as Landscape: Amy Taubin on Robert Redford
Robert Redford (right) in Sydney Pollack’s Jeremiah Johnson (1972). Photo courtesy Warner Bros. In conjunction with the Walker Dialogue and Retrospective Robert Redford: Independent/Visionary...
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Filming Process: The Mundane, Remarkable Stories of Certain Women
Michelle Williams in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women, 2016. Photo courtesy IFC Films Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women screens at the Walker Art Center on October 21 as part of the series Robert Redford:...
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Moral Ambiguity, Meritocracy, and Robert Redford’s Quiz Show (1994)
Ralph Fiennes in Robert Redford’s Quiz Show (1994). Photo courtesy Buena Vista Pictures/Photofest Robert Redford’s acclaimed film Quiz Show (1994) screens at the Walker Art Center on October 26, 2016...
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“One Big Birthday Present”: Judith Guest on Robert Redford’s Adaptation of...
Timothy Hutton and Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People. Photo courtesty Universal Pictures/Photofest On November 2, 2016, writer Judith Guest introduces the Walker Art Center’s screening of Ordinary...
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“The Word ‘Sundance’ Means You to Me”: A Cameraperson’s Letter to Robert Redford
Kirsten Johnson in Darfur. Photo: Lynsey Addario A documentary cinematographer for 25 years, Kirsten Johnson has trained her lens of a wide range of figures and in a staggering array of locales, from...
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Storylines/Bloodlines: Robert Redford and Grandson Talk Family, Film, and the...
Dylan Redford reads a Catwoman comic with grandfather Robert and father James, c. 1994. Photo courtesy the Redford family Like many family patriarchs, Dylan Redford’s grandfather, now 80, is a wealth...
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Hell’s Paradise, Shattered Landscapes: Zhao Liang on Behemoth
Zhao Liang’s Behemoth 2015. Photo courtesy Grasshopper From shattered landscape to hospital bed to the ghost towns of paradise, Zhao Liang’s latest film, Behemoth, is a complex reflection on the cost...
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Lovesong’s Longing: An Interview with So Yong Kim
Yo Song Kim’s Lovesong, 2016. Photo courtesy Strand Releasing So Yong Kim’s fourth feature film, Lovesong, weaves a delicate tale of two women navigating the shifting terrain of adulthood while they...
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A Community to Think Through: The Origins of the Bentson Critical Group
Frank and Caroline Mouris, Frank Film, 1973. Featured in the Mediatheque BCG playlist The Politics of the Domestic, Walker Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection The Bentson Critical Group (BCG) is a...
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Where the Work Is: Walker Moving Image Commissions Three Years On
James Richards and Leslie Thornton, Crossing, 2016 Initiated in 2014, the Walker Moving Image Commissions invited five artists to create a new work to premiere online from June 1, 2015 to May 31, 2016....
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Introducing INDIgenesis: Indigenous Filmmakers, Past and Present
Missy Whiteman’s The Coyote Way: Going Back Home, 2016. Photo: Missy Whiteman “We are in the beginning of a new era in Native cinema, a place where our ancestors are given life, our voices rise, and we...
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Hans Richter: Anti-Film and Radical Dada Abstraction
Hans Richter’s Portrait of Tristan Tzara (1917) A screening of Hans Richter’s early films, including Rhythmus 21 and Rhythmus 23, will take place in the Bentson Mediatheque at the Walker Art Center on...
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