Filmmakers Jon Jost & Pam Minty
in attendance.
HIGH LAKES by Pam Minty (20 min)High Lakes combines staged scenes
along with observational documentary recordings of summer housekeeping
work at a lakeside resort in the Oregon Cascades. The film’s voice-over
sound track includes interviews with family, friends and colleagues
discussing their own past work experiences. These voices are accompanied
by personal reflections of Minty’s time working in resort housekeeping,
and raises questions about precarious work, both its place in the
economy, and what it means for the future of work.
This film was funded
in part through the Oregon Media Fellowship and the Regional Arts &
Culture Council.PLAIN TALK & COMMON SENSE (UNCOMMON SENSES) by Jon Jost (110 minutes)Plain
Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later
to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse,
made for Britain's Channel Four in the year 1986-87. The work involved
extensive travel around the United States, and poses an examination of
just what America is/was, or what do we mean when we speak of it. Done
in a series of radically different sections which collide with each
other in a manner intended to provoke thinking, Plain Talk, which was
made by an American and intended for American viewers, was indeed
broadcast in Britain, but somewhat predictably, not in the USA.
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