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Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

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Written by Tracy Jones   
Thursday, 05 June 2008
Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

David Logsdon's Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans is a test to what children don't learn about black history in schools. A 60-minute documentary about the living history of New Orleans, Faubourg Treme explores the town from which its title is taken, a culture rich area that outskirts the French Quarter. Thus far the film has been well received, writer Lolis Eric Elie, saying, "Sold out runs in New York and San Francisco. There have also been a lot of tearful eyes in our audiences. People are touched by the story and its implicit message that New Orleans must be saved."

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The Pearce Sisters

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Written by Tracy Jones   
Thursday, 22 May 2008
The Pearce Sisters

Two sisters, Lola and Edna live the coastal life. They catch fish and dead seamen floating in the ocean. Together, they are visually a ball and a bat. Although it's never clear which sister is Lola or Edna, you could guess that the ball looks like an Edna and the bat is a Lola or vice versa.

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Secrecy

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Written by Tracy Jones   
Friday, 16 May 2008
Secrecy

Peter Galison and Robb Moss' Secrecy is a documentary that, as its title implies, explores the theory that institutional secrecy in America corrupts and keeps society suspended in fear. The branches of the US government are, according to the constitution, supposed to share power. Secrecy exposes an incompetent system that's at war with itself. Government policy is to gather and conceal sensitive information that poses a threat to national security, but what happens when various branches of government refuse to share classified information between themselves?

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Sarasota Film Festival 2008: Part Three

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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores   
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Sarasota Film Festival 2008

So, we bluffed. We've got one more week of SFF coverage, and we promise you it'll be a rocking and rolling time with some podcast interviews. Check back in for that. In the meantime, take a look a five shorts we thought well on.

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Shmetamorphosis

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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores   
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Shmetamorphosis Jack Feldstein's neonist animation Shmetamorphosis is stranger than its narrative influence Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. Yet, with that astounding oddity comes a fair amount of inspired brilliance. As a self-important psychotherapist attempts to help a buggy patient deal with the insanity of a fragmented family life, the short rambles out with its appropriated imagery in shocking one liners, one of which somewhat inexplicably includes a reference to Snow White's hymen. Thought jarring, often visually abrasive but also intriguing in its original freakishness, Shmetamorphosis is the type of offbeat film festivals exist to screen.

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