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Homecoming: Seduction – A deadCenter 2018 Talk with Oklahoma Icon Kim Voynar
June 13, 2018

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deadCenter 2018 Oklahoma Icon Kim Voynar joins The Cinematic Schematic to talk about her experience filming Homecoming: Seductionwith a 360 degree camera in order to showcase the short in virtual…

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Accommodations Fails to Develop a Relatable Premise – deadCenter 2018
June 12, 2018

Existentialism in film has given us masterpieces from Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and many other accomplished directors. Searching for the meaning of life in a world you don’t understand or can’t relate to is a universal theme of despair that film has used for decades. Existentialism can also come…

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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich – A deadCenter 2018 Talk with Producer Amanda Presmyk
June 12, 2018

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Producer of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich producer Amanda Presmyk joins The Cinematic Schematic to talk about creating one of the most shocking and twisted horror…

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Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich Offers Extreme Gore, Black Comedy, And Biting Social Commentary
June 11, 2018

Horror franchise reboots: three words filmgoers know all too well. And with these three words comes the baggage of cinematic fatigue, a notion that Hollywood’s well of originality went dry years ago, with even newer properties in the horror realm like Saw and Paranormal Activity already past their prime…

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Woman Walks Ahead Stumbles with Grace – deadCenter 2018
June 11, 2018

Susanna White’s Woman Walks Ahead is a lament upon a culture lost in the shadow of colonization. Derived from true events, the film considers painter Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain) and her attempt to craft a portrait of one of the last Native American leaders, Sitting Bull (

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The World Before Your Feet – deadCenter 2018
June 10, 2018

Few cities have more cinematic exposure than New York City. To paraphrase Frank Sinatra: “if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.” The World Before Your Feet aims to cover the NYC streets that cinema has had no previous interest in exploring. This alone makes…

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Femme Fatale Shorts Presents A Choice Selection Of Films Directed By Women – deadCenter 2018
June 10, 2018

One might assume, given the title, that deadCenter’s Femme Fatale Shorts would feature noir ladies smoking cigarettes in chiaroscuro lighting, using her feminine wiles and deviously plotting against a regular Joe, possibly toward persuading him to off her husband. But in actuality, these pictures deal with everyday female…

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Hal is a Cinephile’s Definitive Chronicle – deadCenter 2018
June 9, 2018

There are very few films with the charm and candor of a Hal Ashby flick. As a part of The Cinematropolis’ ongoing coverage of deadCenter 2018, O.U. alumnus Amy Scott’s Hal is a masterful examination of American cinema’s most off-beat contributors. Furthermore, the piece…

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dC After Dark Shorts Offers A Variety Of Wild, Weird, And WTF! Delights – deadCenter 2018
June 9, 2018

If attendees of this year’s deadCenter Film Festival want some truly out-there entertainment, they need look no further than the collection of seven short films curated under the title “dc After Dark Shorts” — “it’s not porno or anything,” the host of Thursday night’s screening assured the small…

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