Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson: Landscapes

Wed, Feb 29, 2012  |  7:00PM

For more than ten years, Minnesota-based filmmaker Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson has created a singular body of work combining experimental approaches to documentary, animation, and portraiture.

In this program, she introduces two films inspired by her ancestral homeland of Iceland. Sveit (2009) examines the mythology of her family’s emigration to North Dakota while contrasting it with the realities of present-day Iceland.Landslag (2004) is a rumination on the natural forces that shaped the area in northern Iceland from where her great-grandparents emigrated. (program app. 60 mins., video

LETTERS FROM THE BIG MAN,

Directed By Christopher Munch

Fri, Feb 24–Sat, Feb 25, 2012  |  7:00PM
Film/Video Theater

Letters from the Big Man is the eagerly anticipated latest film from one of American independent film’s unsung auteurs.

Lily Rabe plays an artist/hydrologist who finds herself in Oregon’s Klamath National Forest trying to balance a recent break-up with the politics of deforestation and a burgeoning love with a sasquatch. Instead of playing the premise for laughs, Munch examines the ancient and spiritual beauty of the region and people unaffected by the last ice age. (105 mins., video)