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James N. Kienitz Wilkins

Public Hearing

Doc. expérimental | 16mm | noir et blanc | 110:0 | USA | 2012

A BODY POLITIC CLOSE UP Public Hearing is the verbatim re-performance of a rural American town meeting from a transcript downloaded as publicly available information. Shot entirely in cinematic close-up on black-and-white 16mm film, a cast of actors and non-actors read between the lines in an ironic debate over a Wal-Mart store expansion.

James N. Kienitz Wilkins (b. 1983, USA) is a filmmaker and artist living in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of numerous grants and periodic awards for various projects of specific and/or universal proportions. He is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City.