THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Aunt Rachel does a runner” (Nov. 29-Dec. 5)

Written By Michael Workman

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Aunt Rachel does a runner

Description
Laura La France and Lizzie Derksen have collaborated on several small projects together, most often surrounding one of Lizzie's poems and/or utilizing Laura's skill with Super 8 film. They are currently working on a CBC Gem documentary about women's friendship, directed by Lizzie.

Runtime: 2 minutes, 39 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Lizzie Derksen
Lizzie Derksen is a writer from Treaty 6 Territory. Dylan Rhys Howard (2021) has described her hair as “angelic,” Tomáš Andel (2021) has described her vibe as “your favourite brand of import cookies,” and Garth Greenwell (2020) has described her sentences as “the actual drug I want.”

Lizzie writes poems about Aunt Rachel, Rachel’s wife Susan, and their niece Lucy. She writes prose about the priest class, the worker class, and her childhood spent in a religious community in southern Saskatchewan. In her spare time, she makes movies and refuses to work with AI.

Credits & Specifications:

Lizzie Derksen (Writer, Director)
Laura La France (Cinematographer)

Completion Date: November 27, 2020
Production Budget: 112 USD
Country of Origin: Canada
Country of Filming: Canada
Language: English
Shooting Format: Super 8mm
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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