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An imagined scene from Snowbird, the recently completed feature-length script set in Minneapolis' forgotten working-class suburbs.

An imagined scene from Snowbird, the recently completed feature-length script set in Minneapolis' forgotten working-class suburbs.

On Halloween night, a mysterious woman deplanes in Minneapolis, thinking she is in New York. When the cab in which she is riding collides with another car, she loses her memory and all connection with her old life. She's reborn as Missy, a woman who knows nothing about who she was, where she was from, or how to live. The people she falls in with are desperately poor. But as they wearily teach Missy about the world as it is, she ends up naively teaching them something too, about the world as it could be.

Garbage Man, 2003, 16mm color, 16 minutes, photo by Wilson Webb

Garbage Man, 2003, 16mm color, 16 minutes, photo by Wilson Webb

Garbage Man is the story of Mouse, a lonely trash collector who finds he has a frightening amount in common with a dead man. If Mouse doesn't change his own life, he might end up dead too, all his possessions turned to trash. Garbage Man was awarded a $10,000 Jerome Foundation grant and an $8,000 Minnesota State Arts Board grant. It appeared at numerous film festivals and was broadcast on PBS's MNTV.

Have You Seen Me?, 2000, 16mm color, 19 minutes

Have You Seen Me?, 2000, 16mm color, 19 minutes

The story of an everyday woman's everyday life in a disposable society. The harder Jen tries to make herself happy with the consumables targeted at her, the more lost she becomes. One of Minnesota's best short films of 2000 according to City Pages Film Editor Rob Nelson, Have You Seen Me? screened at the 2001 Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Shortwave, 1998, 16mm color, 8 minutes

Shortwave, 1998, 16mm color, 8 minutes

For a 13 year-old boy coming of age on a lonely farm, the real world is a place mostly imagined. Shortwave screened at the 1999 Slamdance Film Festival and was nominated for a D. L. Mabery Award - Minnesota's "Best Picture" award. It also aired nationally on the Independent Film Channel.

 

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