Films: Watunna

Watunna

USA, 1990, 24 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Animated, Avant Garde/Experimental
Program: Shorts-in-a-Feature-Length-World

DIRECTOR: Stacey Steers

The creation of myths of the Yekuanna Indians of the Orinoco region of Venezuela provide a transparent look at the poetic process by which human beings construct meaning from their experience. Narrated by Stan Brakhage. Music and sound by Bruce Odland.

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  film/STILL: An Evening with Stacey Steers

  90 min. Stacey Steers’s labor-intensive films are composed of thousands of individual, handmade works on paper. Her films have screened at festivals and museums worldwide. She is this year’s recipient of the Denver Film Society's Stan Brakhage Vision Award.... more

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