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Sammy, Sammy

"'I ain't got much education. When I was 14 years old I was sent off to work in a logging camp. I was so tough they called me Sammy, Sammy'" [SFU 74/75 Film Workshop Showcase program]; "Another film portrait. Sammy, Sammy is an incredible old man who's raised fifteen kids and continues to live off the land in the interior. A true primitive artist, he makes puppets out of carved wood, old rags and bits of trash (i.e., a broken bowl serves as a hat). " He posts signs on the road outside his [sic] advertising his puppet shows. His home and yard which are decorated with collages, homilies(?) and 'sculptures.' The editing is good so the film doesn't drag. We shift from scenes from the puppet show to him talking, helping people build a house, at a drunken party with teenagers, etc. " [Handwritten notes (author unknown), 21 May 1975, in arrangement & description section of F-232 collection file]. Chechik (director) is well-known in the film industry, and is President of Omni Film Productions Limited (Vancouver), which "is one of Canad's longest established television and film production companies." [http://www.omnifilm.com/about_people.shtml#chechik]

Rubblewomen

Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in video and 16mm formats: "Rubblewomen explores a taboo subject: the "rubblewomen" who helped rebuild shattered postwar Berlin by gathering and cleaning bricks from bombed buildings. Interviews and imaginatively manipulated archival footage sketch in this forgotten chapter in German history. As one interviewee notes, "women are always cleaning up men's messes." Award: Best Documentary, Canadian Student Film Festival, 1985 [http://www.movingimages.ca/catalogue/Experimental/Experimental_b.html#RTFToC3a]

Riot

According to early listing in arrangement & description section of F-232 collection file, "Go" and "Riot" elements go together (same year, same director, slight difference in length).

Raised on Junk

Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in 16mm format: "In this experimental narrative, a young woman is provoked into questioning her daily consumerism by a character at the periphery of the waking world, a character who appears to be saying 'I've never been a heroin addict but I was raised on junk ...'" 19 min. 1985 [http://www.movingimages.ca/catalogue/Experimental/Experimental_a.html#RTFToC2a]. Won "Best non-narrative fiction film" at the 16th Canadian Student Film Festival in Montreal in 1985.

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