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Thursday, Feb 16, 1995
So What Price Reality?
"Do it yourself" was the motto of last year'sDocumentary Film course taught by B Ruby Rich in the UC Berkeley FilmStudies Program. And they did it. All of the selected pieces from thisclass deal in one way or another with questions of reality and fiction,truth and deception. The topics range from an essayistic and comic videoabout madness in An Other Film (Solveig Cornelisen, Julie Stone, 20mins) to an affectionate portrayal of the maker's Russian grandmother inBabunya (Larissa Voloshin, 10 mins). Just Another Exposé (AdamGold, 14 mins) makes fools out of the UC Regents while The Bus (JessicaNathan, 20 mins) uses still images and a non-synch soundtrack todescribe experiences with public transportation. Hair Always Grows Back(Sun Kim, 15 mins) documents a Korean woman's decision to shun vanity byshaving her head. Students in the AnthropologyDepartment's Ethnographic Film course, taught by Glen Shepard, createdvideos as tools for working in an ethnographic context, combining humorand tension with startling topics. Shiva!?! (Jesse Buckley, David Huang,Caroline Kublin, Janel Quirante, Vickie Reznik, Mike Shea, 18 mins,3/4" video) traces the "chronicle of a traffic barrier fromsecular to sacred." The poetic and visual pleasure of storytellingin deaf culture is a main concern of The Best Storytellers in the West(Mary Guzman, Jennifer Huang, Axel Shalson, Ashley Telles, LisaWilliams, 20 mins). Faithful to the classes'central themes, we present to you tonight TRUTH GUARANTEED!-SolveigCornelisen Curated by Solveig Cornelisen and TimFox as part of a curatorial internship offered by PFA and FilmStudies. With thanks to B Ruby Rich and thestudents of Documentary Film (Film 28B) and Glen Shepard and thestudents of Ethnographic Film (Anthropology 138B), Spring Semester 1993.
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