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, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), 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. and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
