THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "The Knife and the Heart” (Dec 1-7)

Written By Michael Workman

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Description
Tape of unknown origin, appearing to depict a dramatized sequence of "phases" in time and space that both tell the story of a woman's past and explore the end of our universe, intertwining the two with dark surrealist imagery. Not Recommended

Runtime: 11 minutes
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Jake Gonnella
Jake Gonnella is a writer and producer from Boston, Massachusetts. While attending Reed college in Portland, Oregon, Gonnella worked on more than a dozen shows, including directing a production of Tristan Tzara’s play The Gas Heart for his senior thesis. Gonnella’s main theatre focus lies in writing and directing new experimental works, though he has also acted in several productions. Gonnella currently lives in Boston where he oversees the experimental podcast Radio Dada and continues to produce new work.

Credits & Specifications:
Cast:
Laurel Schuster
John Mullholland
Saga Darnell
Isaiah Silvers

Stage Manager:
Alison Fortune

Technical Direction:
Michael Kaplan

Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Shooting Format: Digital 720p camera
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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