THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Low Rent” (Nov. 22-28)

Written By Michael Workman

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Low Rent

Description
Low Rent spans the year I spent secretly living in a hut I built on my allotment in Edinburgh back in 2005. It follows the full cycle of the seasons and captures moments such as early dawn from the hut doorway, a fox running with a scavenged egg in her mouth and trees bending with fruit. In its course I explore questions that continue to preoccupy me about land ownership in Scotland, class, poverty, colonialism and how the violence of capitalism and the joy of life meet in our bodies. With a unique score created by Jer Reid drawing from live improvisation by Jer Reid (guitar) and Una MacGlone (double bass).

Runtime: 1 hour, 15 minutes, 50 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Cloudberry MacLean
I am inspired by anarchist and feminist thought and the wild, beautiful power of our planet. I’m troubled by the unceasing violence and wanton destruction that capitalism is based on.

When I’m reading bios I do like to know a bit about people’s backgrounds as they are manifestations of massive social forces that shape us all in unavoidable, significant ways. I’m a white, cis, queer Scottish woman from a working-class background. All this informs my work in direct and less readily quantifiable ways; my preoccupations, responsibilities, lacks and insights.

I hope that my writing and moving image pieces contribute to a collective upsurge in liberatory thinking and ways of living.

Credits & Specifications:
Cloudberry MacLean (Writer, Director)

Completion Date: March 1, 2024
Production Budget: 5,000 GBP
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Shooting Format: Digital, Super 8
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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