THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PRESENTATION: "love and otherwise existing with winnie the pooh” (Oct 6-Oct 13)

Written By Michael Workman

WATCH THE TRAILER (CLICK IMAGE ABOVE FOR THE FULL MOVIE)

Description
An experimental adaptation of winnie the pooh exploring mundane queerness, friendship and lingering.

I categorize this video as playground absurdism which is a term I created to describe my feature film work. It is an approach to filmmaking that is rooted in absurdist ideology and harnessed using the ethos of a child. Masked with silly plots and characters, time serves as a vessel for exploration of the imperfections, people and spaces I hold dear.

Runtime: 1 hour, 10 minutes, 7 seconds
Best Viewed: Any Screen, Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Walter Smits
I am a queer multimedia artist focusing on experimental video. My lens is youthful and curious, broken down into absurd collages of spontaneous language and fragmented imagery. My work critiques filmmaking structures and examines the intangibility of memory, childhood, and sexuality. Transcending these constructs via playful curiosity allows me to provide an earnest and heartfelt analysis of the ephemeral.

Credits & Specifications
Director: Walter Smits
Pooh: Lucas Kurmis
Christopher Robin: Lucas Rollo
Piglet: Erin Mackaman

Completion Date: March 1, 2023
Language: English
Shooting Format: digital
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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