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Antioch alumnus debuts Little Art-inspired work at Japanese art festival
Antioch alumnus John Wells’ contribution to Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale was an art installation that included the construction of a miniature movie theater called “Cinema Kamigo.”
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Trace Lysette talks humanity, joy in ‘Monica’
Earlier this month, the Little Art Theatre premiered “Monica,” a film starring Trace Lysette, who grew up in Yellow Springs and the wider Miami Valley. Lysette spoke briefly with the News via phone after the film’s local debut.
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Review | To interiority and beyond in ‘Asteroid City’
“‘Asteroid City’ is a meta film that spends 104 minutes scaffolding layers upon layers of tweedy, postmodern artifice. And I, for one, loved it.”
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Remembering Reichert
On Saturday May 6, a memorial service was held for late filmmaker Julia Reichert on the campus of Antioch.
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Building Community | A lifetime at the movies
Jenny Cowperthwaite Ruka’s longevity at the the Little Art Theatre— her “continuity of experience,” as she called it — helped make it a welcoming place for community members over the years, no matter the changes to policy, practice or even the theater’s physical space.
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Review | Of whales and love’s conditions
Darren Aronofsky’s 2022 film, “The Whale,” is an exercise in discomfort. Audiences are spurred to shift in their seats as they watch the protagonist of undeniable size — played by the almost universally beloved Brendan Fraser — struggle to help himself time and again.
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IN MEMORIAM | Julia Reichert’s legacy in truth, film
Julia Reichert work in film will be remembered for holding a megaphone to the voices of women and the working class — a thematic thread that ran through many of her most important works.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker, Yellow Springs resident Julia Reichert dies at 76
Longtime villager, filmmaker and activist Julia Reichert died Thursday, Dec. 1, at her Yellow Springs home after living with cancer. She was 76.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar documentary debuts at festival
“Paul Laurence Dunbar: An American Poet,” produced by the Xenia-based Caesar’s Ford Theatre and directed by the theater’s project manager and playwright, Kane Stratton, will debut at the Dayton Film Festival on Friday, Sept. 23, at the Neon theater between 7 and 9 p.m.
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Villager debuts ‘Una Great Movie’
Jennifer Sharp’s film “Una Great Movie” debuted digitally this month on Amazon. The film, which the village native wrote, directed and edited, was shot primarily on an island in Mexico to which Sharp has strong personal ties.
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