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September 2003

Bitter Humor

By Sandy MacDonald
Still from "The Politics of Fur."
L.A. auteur Laura Nix illumines the origins of her stylized lesbian melodrama, "The Politics of Fur," a highlight of the upcoming Boston Underground Film Festival.

Keeping it Experimental

By Kevin McCarthy
A still from "Shimmi."
Maureen Tzudiker discusses her short film "Shimmi," which debuts at this month’s Film Fest New Haven.

Rotten at the Root

By Genevieve Butler
Proud perpetrator posing for this photo postcard sent through the mail in Mississippi in the early 1900s.
Filmmaker Gode Davis talks about his film "American Lynching: A Strange and Bitter Fruit," the first feature-length documentary to investigate the grim history of lynching in the United States.

Industry News

By Chris Cooke
"Act Your Age" will screen the Coolidge Corner Theatre this month.
Maureen Foley's new feature, "Martha Stewart Living," and more... A report of news & events in the local industry for September 2003.

Man in the Mooncusser

By Randy Steinberg
Suzanne Vega.
Christopher Kelly Seufert talks about being a documentary filmmaker, his company Mooncusser Films, and his latest subject, Suzanne Vega.

Music Man

By Chris Cooke
Fights broke out at many of Antheil's European concerts. The premiere in Paris of the Ballet mécanique was no different.
A review of the film screening this month at the Film Fest New Haven, "Bad Boy Made Good," about American composer George Antheil.

Crossing the Line

By Jim Mentink
On the set of "River Street" in Southeastern Connecticut.
The pilot's been shot, the trailer's being pitched in Los Angeles and if Tom Deedy has his way, his 13 episode series "River Street" will be the next TV show we're all talking about.