MNTV 2009

MNTV 2009


MNTV 2009

Homegrown Independent Film on tpt


Show 3 Airdates

movie file Black-Eyed Snakes "Rise Up!" by Brian Barber

Created as part of the first Homegrown Music Video Festival in Duluth. Participants drew a band / song out of a hat, then had the weekend to make the video.

movie file Street Cellist: David McGee by Jesse Roesler

Every Saturday before dawn, David McGee loads his cello on to his bike and rides to the downtown Minneapolis Farmers Market. David and his cello have put smiles on the faces of Twin Cities music lovers for over 10 years.

movie file Paris Journal by Paul Bernhardt
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The most spectacular sight recently in a city known for fashion is Borgi [bor-zhee], whose humor, clarion voice, poetic turn of phrase and theatrical sense of self-presentation are the center of attention on the street corner where he hawks produce, directly across the street from a competing store.

movie file Pete’s Palace by Amanda Becker
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Pete’s Palace is a “hero story”; One man’s journey into the heart of the frigid Minnesota winters. In spite his hatred for the below zero temps, Pete Swenson decides to embrace winter and spend six weeks in the frigid cold building an ice “palace” in his backyard. For a party. For one night.

movie file Edifice Wrecks by Tim Fort
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A kinetic-art gadget video I made during the summer of 2008 and filmed in my studio.

movie file I Feel Tight by John Akre
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I Feel Tight puts to animation a song from the Electric Art Radio musical, “Don’t Crush Our Hearts.” The duo Moon Island pine to escape form the tiny town where they live and move to a place that can recognize and stimulate their creativity.

movie file First Sight by Kerry Johnson
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An unsuspecting young mans shopping routine just got a little sweeter thanks to a pursuing employee.

movie file Pumpkin by Sarah Jean Kruchowski
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His teeth were too long for him to be kind.

movie file Freatures by Kari Jo Skogquist
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A glimpse in the life of freak feature based creatures.

movie file Anima by Jim Grafsgaard & P.J. Tracy
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A short journey thru an imaginary undersea world, populated by strange microbial creatures. Images are animated details of Jim Grafsgaard's Geo-Expressionist oil paintings. Music is composed and performed by P.J. Tracy, with sampled and digitally created sounds including a variety of world instruments.

movie file Tape Eleven by William Rees & JoEllen Martinson
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Swinging singles head underground where their secret desires are captured on tape in this mysterious featurette filmed partially on Fisher Price’s 1980s era Pixel-Cam toy.

movie file The Silent Regime Within by Mahi Palanisami
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As a young woman, Chante Wolf joined the military to have a chance at getting a higher education. While completing basic training, she endured and learned about systems that use sexual abuse as a means of control within the U.S. armed forces. After many years of healing and reflection, she now works to create a conversational space where people can talk about the power structures within the U.S. military.

movie file Future Antiquity: The Tears of Saddam Hussein by Lewis Weinberg
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Hope, monstrous to the powers that exert control, monstrous to those who harbor it. Those who harbor hope are marked, set apart, sacrificed on the altar of their ideals. But monsters, if we look at things in an evolutionary sense, are the irritant agents of change.

movie file Behind the Scenes Interviews for Show 3
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