Sunday, April 22nd - 7:00 pm - St. Anthony Main Director: Judy Irola   Actor/Director Rob Nilsson Present What do you get when you cross an idealistic group of young filmmakers with a radical Marxist collective? According to former member Judy Irola: "A car wreck."

Irola's hilarious, fascinating film, featuring a memorable musical score by David Schickele, charts the life of a unique politcal film collective that arose from the utopioan ideologies of the 1960s and surivived the tumult of the 1970s. United by strict egalitarian regulations and the belief that their films should have a message and an audience, they produced impressive results, including the award-winning films, Over-Under, Sideways-Down and Northern Lights (films directed by Rob Nilsson and John Hanson; Northern Lights won the 1979 Cannes Film Festival Best First Feature). In spite of countless criticism sessions and the services of a Reichian therapist, time, ego and success ultimately took its toll on the group.

Cast: Eugene Corr, Peter Gessner, John Hanson, Judy Irola, Stephen Lightill, Rob Nilsson

Best Documentary, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2006

USA, 75 minutes, 2006, DigiBeta.

*Special screening: The Opening, director Rob Nilsson's new film. (Sunday, April 22, 12:30 P.M., St. Anthony Main Theater). His new film is a satiric comedy on art opening types set during a Kansas city tornado.

Presented by: Fredrikson & Byron

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