event Women With Vision Festival: Stay The Same Never Change
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Thu Mar 25
7:30 pm
Women With Vision Festival: Stay The Same Never Change at Walker Art Center
Most folks sum up teenage girlhood as simply a "tough" or "awkward" time, but Laurel Nakadate subjects it to a more difficult and controversial inquiry in her transition from video art to feature-length film, 2009's Stay The Same Never Change. Set in Kansas City and mostly devoid of plot, Nakadate's vignettes employ an amateur cast of teenagers and older men to make this time of a person's life feel more dangerous, boring, frightening, and challenging than pop culture would have us believe. A fittingly screwy pop soundtrack from Casiotone For The Painfully Alone adds something that can't quite be called sweetness or comfort.
Walker Art Center 1750 Hennepin Ave, Twin Cities, MN
Most folks sum up teenage girlhood as simply a "tough" or "awkward" time, but Laurel Nakadate subjects it to a more difficult and controversial inquiry in her transition from video art to feature-length film, 2009's Stay The Same Never Change. Set in Kansas City and mostly devoid of plot, Nakadate's vignettes employ an amateur cast of teenagers and older men to make this time of a person's life feel more dangerous, boring, frightening, and challenging than pop culture would have us believe. A fittingly screwy pop soundtrack from Casiotone For The Painfully Alone adds something that can't quite be called sweetness or comfort.
