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13th
ANNUAL
JAMES RIVER
FILM FESTIVAL
Virginia’s
Festival
for the
Independent-
Minded |
ALL ADMISSIONS FREE
UNLESS NOTED; DONATIONS ENCOURAGED
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The Whole
Wide World
(1996,
104 min.)
2 pm, Richmond Public Library, Main Branch
Free Admission
 Fantasy
writer Robert E. Howard meets and intermittently woos aspiring schoolteacher
Novalyne Price in Texas in the mid-thirties, in this “small”
independent production by Dan Ireland. Howard, fraught with
his own personal demons and heroes (among them Conan the Barbarian
and the Red Sonja) and patronizingly ignored by the locals, was already
selling to various pulps and encouraged the young Price to write from
her imagination, and not from experience. Based on Price’s published
memoir, "One Who Walked Alone," Howard emerges as a creative,
visionary volcano. Vincent D’Onofrio and Renee Zellweger are
cast in the leads and turn in fine performances. Bonus: A local book
collector will exhibit rare editions of Mr. Howard’s books and
pulps in commemoration of Howard’s 100th birthday this year. |
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Naked
Testimonials: The Films of Martha Colburn
(2 hour program)
7:30 pm, Plant Zero Art Center
Admission $5
 Experimental
animator Martha Colburn
makes things move and morph using a variety of techniques to create
colorful, layered patchworks of bizarre and striking imagery—soldiers
in Iraq receiving delicate cosmetic surgery, skeletons superimposed
over couples making love, spiders with women’s faces and shadowy
phalluses. Combined with her hypnotic soundtracks, Colburn’s
visuals emerge as “naked testimonials of our times, and of her
generation’s” according to avant-guru and filmer, Jonas
Mekas, who connects Colburn’s work to the found-image-collage
tradition of Stan Vanderbeek, Dick Preston, and Bruce Conner in the
1960s. Colburn’s dynamic, self-taught style has found its way
onto screens in museums, galleries and microcinemas worldwide!
Join us for this very special evening of Colburn favorites followed
by a Q&A session with the filmmaker. |
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