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Outer Ear Festival of Sound presents Deborah Stratman

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Filmmaker Deborah Stratman's harsh juxtapositions and textual overlaps might make for laborious viewing if they weren't so seductive. In short videos and feature films, such as The BLVD and Kings of the Sky, Stratman trusts the audience enough to let us parse out the bitter ironies and serene paradoxes for ourselves. Her latest should endear her to fans of classic pastiche docs like Atomic Café and Star Spangled to Death. Similarly fixated on national identity, O’er the Land mixes footage of Americana both banal (football games) and violent (a machine gun festival) with the story of William Rankin, a Marine Colonel who was battered in the air for nearly an hour by severe storms after being ejected from his fighter plane. The feature screens along with Stratman's Paranormal Trilogy, and is followed by a discussion with the director.

- Stephen Gossett
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