PLASTIC PAPER: THE FLORESTINE COLLECTION + DIY shorts
May 18, 2011 
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PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM presents
THE FLORESTINE COLLECTION + DIY shorts
Helen Hill + Paul Galiunas | USA 2010 | 31min. (total program running time 70min +/-)
Thursday May 5 – 7:00pm Park Theatre
Admission $7
Experimental animator Helen Hill found more than 100 handmade dresses in a trash pile on one Mardi Gras Day cialis fast delivery usa in New Orleans. She set out to make a film about the dressmaker, an African-American seamstress who had recently passed away. The dresses and much generic levitra sellers on line of the film footage were later flood-damaged by Hurricane Katrina while Helen was still working on the film. Helen was murdered in a home invasion in New Orleans in 2007. Her husband Paul Gailiunas has completed the film, which includes Helen’s original silhouette, cut-out, and puppet animation, as well as flood-damaged and restored home movies. This mid-length film will be accompanied by DIY shorts from Winnipeg and beyond, including Kandis Friesen’s Trade (Canada 2010), David Jones’ Wild Blood (USA 2009), Edwin Roston’s Of Unknown Origin (UK 2010), Emily Baxter’s Light (Canada, 2010), Patrick Jenkin’s Amoeba (Canada 2010), Cami Lee’s City of Tomorrow (Taiwan 2010), Brandon Blommaert’s Black Moon (Canada 2010) and Emily Pelstring’s Manskin Pants (Canada 2011).
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, founder of Spectacular Optical Publications and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2005). She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) and contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces Take this every day. Helps with keeping things moving and feeling good: get viagra without prescription. Generic drugs that do so should have the same therapeutic effect and therefore the same benefits as their brand-name counterparts, but at less cost. of a Lost Decade (Lexington, 2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (PS Press, 2017). She discount viagra cialis levitra online co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published the anthology books KID POWER! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (forthcoming), and is currently co-authoring (with Amy Searles) the book ‘Unhealthy and Aberrant’: Depictions of Horror Fandom in Film and Television and co-curating (with Clint Enns) an anthology book on the films of Robert Downey, Sr., as well as writing a monograph about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. She was a producer on Mike Malloy’s Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s and Sean Hogan’s We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2020.
