Skilled Filmmakers Pull Off Bold Shorts

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Robert's Walk, from Daniel Eskin and Dan Gerson, is beautifully shot and edited. This black-and-white film, featuring a well-dressed, bowler-hatted gentleman wandering through a forest, is notable for its formidable formal beauty, though it might (if only by the most delicate allusion) revive interest in the neglected Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser. Protection by Danishka Esterhazy continues that filmmaker's fascination with female archetypes, as two sisters (both played by Heather Sagmeister) play out -- and deconstruct -- blond/brunette, good-girl/bad-girl images.

Darryl Nepinak's Ming So invites us to a laughing party in Winnipeg's back alleys, with a funny but seriously subversive look at First Nations identity. (Nepinak also jokingly asks the question, "Is there any money in experimental filmmaking?" You can probably guess the answer.)

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Skilled Filmmakers Pull Off Bold Shorts

By Alison Gillmor

THE latest round of short films from the Winnipeg Film Group is all experimental, all the time. In many of these works, film is hand-processed, scr...

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