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The Ice Cycle Shanty hosted MNKINO today. Here are some photos from out on the lake…

Warms my heart.

Film for All

Great write-up of MNKINO for mnartists.org by Marsha Trainer. Way to go Lindsey for keeping things going this far!

You heard it right kids; the theme is DANCE. Watch the July 2010 Kabaret announce vid.

(reblogged from MNKINO)

Hope to see you at the Kabaret opening screening tonight at the WBSC! 8pm is when it begins.

(reblogged from MNKINO)

Check out our promo for the upcoming Kabaret! You should come — the more the merrier.

mnkino:

Hey there, friends—

We’ve got something big coming up this month — the first ever MNKINO Kabaret! What’s a Kabaret? Well basically it’s a weekend of filmmaking and fun, and it’s happening July 23-25 at the West Bank Social Center.

We’re having an open screening at 8pm on Friday the 23rd, after which we’ll announce the Mystery Meat (theme), and you have 48 hours to make a video. We invite you to set up at the WBSC day or night during the weekend, and make the best of it.

Keeping this one short but sweet, but you can check our website for more details. Hope to see you there!

Andy + Lindsey

Down to the wire. MNKINO tonight!

“Please forgive us.”

Here it is — the video I made with Ariel for MNKINO #6: “FOOD.” The quote above is what Ariel had to say before we screened it last Tuesday.

Making this video prompted a lot of questions and uncertainties for me — enough that I was practically ready to bail at one point (glad I didn’t). Perhaps it’s worth noting that Ariel is a vegatarian and I’m not. One of the first mistakes I made was assuming that if a vegetarian seems OK with going through with this, then I must be too.

So under what circumstances is it acceptable to boil a lobster alive? Can one prove that, although symbolically more difficult than most other ways of killing animals for food, boiling a living creature is actually any worse? Are the ethical considerations of this act changed when one is filming it? What if it never gets eaten (it’s still in my freezer)?

I won’t bother you with any more of my moral hand-wringing, especially since much of it is covered in the David Foster Wallace essay we mention at the beginning of the video.

But I do have one question for you: know any decent recipes for frozen lobster?

Update: Upon re-reading this post, it strikes me as a little melodramatic. Despite my moral quandrifying, I’m happy with how it turned out and glad we did it!

OK, so let’s get a little back-story here. Last summer, my good friend Adam invited me to come up to his cabin near Hayward, Wisconsin. That part isn’t exactly news, I’ve been going to this particular cabin every summer for years — even back when it actually had running water. BUT, this year we would be given the charge of completely tearing down one of the property’s two cabins.

I’m sure you can understand my giddiness at the proposition. In fact I just had to bring my camera to document the process.

Fast-forward to last Monday, 10:30pm. I was struggling to finish cutting together some found footage before the MNKINO “Non-fiction” screening the next day, and really not liking where it was going. In a desperate move, I started looking through some unlabeled MiniDV tapes to see if I could find something interesting. And then I found this.

You’ll be happy to know that the product of this video was put to good use the following weekend — although, sadly, I couldn’t be present to test it myself.

Get that full, backwoods flavor by watching the HD version at Vimeo.com.

Check it out, the “Cut / Copy / Paste” videos are up! Get ‘em while they’re hot!

Next month’s theme is “Non-fiction”, and the screening is December 22nd. You know you’ve got a true story you’ve been dying to tell…

As usual, more videos and info on the website.