Made
in Fairbanks Slideshow
Filmmaking
Guest
Curator: Leonard Kamerling
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the early days of the hand-cranked movie camera, there have been
filmmakers working and living in Fairbanks. The power of the images
they caught helped set the North in the minds of audiences all
over the world. Sometimes those images communicated a potent truth
about the land and the people, and sometimes they contributed
to formidable stereotypes still with us today. Their collective
legacy ranges from farcical imaginings, as in Howard Christie's
fiction film, Abbot and Costello Lost in Alaska, 1952 ("It's
all new and a Riot too!") to the nuanced representation of
Native people, as in Curt Madison's collaboratively produced and
deeply felt documentary about the Minto memorial potlatch, Hitting
Sticks, Healing Hearts, 1991.
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Filmmaking
objects from Made in Fairbanks.
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The
films produced here over the decades (the good and the bad) were
in some way about "place." Today, Fairbanks filmmakers
focus on films about the people, the landscape, the social and cultural
events and issues that move us through our history. Still it is
about "place." Perhaps it is part of the phenomenon of
living in a place like Fairbanks where the environment so dominates
our lives. Filmmakers come here, so far from the industry centers,
and they stay. What began as a subject, becomes a changing force
in life.
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a list of participants from
Made in Fairbanks
Guest
Curators - read their statements:
Steve
Bouta, Developing Invention
James Brashear, Ceramics
Jean Carlo, Native
Arts
Wanda Chin, Multimedia
Peggy Ferguson, Performing
Arts
Jennifer Jolis, Food
Products
Len Kamerling, Filmmaking
John Manthei, Wood
Barry McWayne, Commercial
Photography
David Mollett, Visual
Applied Arts
Connie Page, Wood
Todd Sherman, Visual
Applied Arts
Glen Simpson, Metal
Frank Soos, Writing
Suzanne Summerville, Ph.D., Music
Penny Wakefield, Fiber
Works
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the Made in Fairbanks introduction.
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