Maybe you’re thinking you’ve seen enough footage of the State Fair. There isn’t anything more evocative of summertime in Minnesota than the Minnesota State Fair, the subject of filmmaker Brian Dehler‘s Midway, the two-minute short which opens the broadcast. The first of the three MNTV programs airs December 14 on channel 2 and December 20 on channel 17 this initial group of short films centers on the theme of summer festivals. If you’d like to get the full line-up and more detailed broadcast information for each program, you can visit the Walker Art Center website. Below you’ll find mention of some of the stand-out films and videos selected for this year’s showcase of local talent. This year’s assortment of shorts features sixteen pieces packaged into three one-hour programs. Dean Otto, assistant curator for film and video at the Walker, along with Lu Lippold at IFP, and Marlina Gonzalez at Intermedia Arts, judged over seventy-five submissions from fifty-one Minnesota filmmakers for this year’s MNTV line-up. Your house, that is, because MNTV airs on Twin Cities Public Television (channels 2 and 17) beginning December 2008.Ī joint project of IFP, Intermedia Arts, the Walker Art Center, and TPT, MNTV is designed to be a showcase for Minnesota films which were made in the past two years and are no more than forty minutes long. What is MNTV? Aside from being a catchy acronymMNTV stands for Minnesota Televisionit’s probably the only chance you’ll get this year to see some of Minnesota’s best shorts by some of Minnesota’s best filmmakers, and from the best seat in the house. Where is Charlton Heston when you need him? Oh, there he is, arisen from the dead to campaign for car owners and their gas-guzzling vehicles.Įither you’ve just tuned into a Desperate Housewives spin-off, or you’re watching the latest batch of MNTV film and video shorts. Could it be from his comatose daughter? Meanwhile, in fashion land, lovers Bruno and Fillipa emerge from seclusion to astound the world with the “most dangerously stunning creation the world has ever known.” Of course, this is when the Iranian father decides to visit his son and his son’s American wife in Minnesota in the process he lands himself squarely in the middle of a domestic war. ![]() A FATHER, PLAGUED BY GUILT, RECEIVES A MYSTERIOUS message.
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