Film Series 2002
minicine?
824 Texas Avenue
Shreveport, LA 71101
Monday, DECEMBER 2 Christmas Under the Ground minicine host its Annual Local (and now regional) Film & Video Showcase... Featuring Short Works by: Mary Bigelow, Rick Carlisle, Keturah Cummings, Landry Debussey, Allison Dickson, M.A.Dinkins, Alan Dyson, Stu Dyson, Dan Garner, Matt Hazzelton, Cory Ryan, Amy Slack, Jen Wasson, Megan Westbrook + More... Also featuring new Paintings by: Tim Coyle, Mark Klocko, Donna Moore, Michael Moore, Katherine Pabody, Andy Randolf, Serena Sherriff & new Photography by: David Nelson... Bring a Blankee and Have Hot Chocolate Served to You in Your Seat... 824 Texas Avenue, Doors Open @ 7PM, Films Roll @ 7:30PM...FREE And in the Zebra Room @ 9PM...$5... RedShift & Tungsten74...Sponsored by KSCL 91.3FM & S.P.O.O.N
Email for more info....minicine@swampland.org
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Wednesday, OCTOBER 30 Residue of Memory Residue of Memory is an experimental documentary exploring the metaphorical relationship between family loss and an abandoned rock quarry. Inspired by a story about Ms. O'Dell's grandfather, who owned rock quarries in Southern Indiana and who, according to family myth, made and lost a fortune at the turn of the century, the work centers on notions of the American Dream, our mediated connections to the land, and how families and people shape their identity through their connections to, or distance from, the landscape. The video also is autobiographical, as it documents Ms. O'Dell's journey to understand the notion of home through both its presence and absence. Five generations of women lead this work as the video moves through the landscape, literally and figuratively, from one town to another. It is an attempt to understand why her family has been so transient, why many of its women lost their fathers and, as a result, why they became so displaced. Ms. O'Dell states; "I am searching to understand a lineage of dislocation and abandonment, which in many ways is a counterpoint to the American Dream." "Supported by a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture Recreation and Tourism, and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council." 8PM, 824 Texas Avenue, Downtown Shreveport...FREE
minicine and the Centenary Art Department host Cynthia O'Dell to personally present and discuss her new video Residue of Memory (USA, Color, 37min., VHS).
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Monday, OCTOBER 28 6 Easy Pieces Born in Chicago in 1943, of a military family, Jon Jost grew up in Georgia, Kansas, Japan, Italy, Germany and Virginia. Expelled from college in 1963, he began making 16mm films. He is self-taught. He has made some 20 shorts and 13 feature-length films, all of which he has conceived, written, photographed, directed and edited. In 1965 Jost was imprisoned by US Federal authorities for 2 years and 3 months for refusal to cooperate with the Selective Service System. On release, he quickly became engaged in political activities, helping start the Chicago branch of what became Newsreel, the New Left film production and distribution group, as well as working for the draft resistance and the Chicago Mobilization. Jost made his first feature-length film in 1974, and has since devoted himself to the making of a wide-ranging series of films, largely focused on specifically American topics, in form ranging from essays (Speaking Directly, Stagefright, and Uncommon Senses), to essay-fictions (Angel City) to avant-garde and new narrative forms. His work has shown widely in museums, film archives and festivals since 1975. Jon Jost is the first recipient of the John Cassavetes Award for lifetime achievement granted by the Independent Features Project. -info courtesy of World Artist 7PM, Mickle Hall, Centenary College Campus...FREE
minicine and the Centenary Film Society host internationally reknown filmmaker Jon Jost (All the Vermeers in New York) to personally present and discuss his film 6 Easy Pieces.
In 1991, The Museum of Modern Art in New York assembled and presented Jon Jost: American Independent, a complete retrospective of Jost's work encompassing eleven features and five programs of shorts. The show subsequently traveled to the AFI Theater at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge, the UCLA Film and Television Archive in Los Angeles, the AMC Kabuki Theater by the Film Arts Foundation in Association with the San Francisco Film Society, the Chicago Filmmakers, Nurnberg, Germany, and the Viennale in Austria.
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Saturday SEPTEMBER 28 "Dirges & Sturgeons" Curated and introduced by Astria Suparak for Anthology Film Archives, NYC. YACHT: Young Artists Challenge High Technology (for a Total eclipse of the heart). These new videos from America and Europe have tying threads of: the use of high (?) technology or the idea of "future" in a lo fi way, dopplegang/replication, instant nostalgia as the residue of planned obsolescence, states of limbo. High and low (fidelity and culture). Featuring: Bjoern MELHUS (The Magic Glass), Miranda JULY (Getting Stronger Every Day, 2001), Seth PRICE (Industrial Synth, 2002), Jacqueline GOSS (The 100th Undone, 2001), Lawrence ELBERT (Whitney), ANIMAL CHARM (Lightfoot Fever / Slow Gin Soul Stallion), Pierre Yves CLOUIN (The Little Big). THE VILLAGE VOICE: "Peripatetic curator Astria Suparak has an eye for the strange and ineffable." - A. Taubin Doors open @ 7:00PM... Films roll @ 8PM... Lee Hardware Gallery... Illumination de LUMIERE Light Installation by: M.A.Dinkins, Keturah Cummings, Allison Dickson, John Mackey, Jay Marks and Katherine Pabody... WARNING-FOLLOWING THIS SCREENING The following bands will be playing in the open air of the roofless 842 Texas Avenue... bring marshmellows.. for Gus & Hank, Jimmy Cousins' Dog Days, and from New Orleans, Ratty Scurvix, The Fontanelles UK, and The Interlopers Starts around 10 or 11... $5 Donation
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THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN: "Video art starlet Astria Suparak is on a mission to bring the freshest experimental works to the theaters nearest you. The 23-year-old New York curator makes a stop on her national and European tour... with "Dirges and Sturgeons," a program of shorts by young and emerging artists. Playful laments indeed, these new works use lo-fi aesthetics to critique high technology and mass-produced culture." - A. Chadburn
For information about Astria Suparak visit http://www.astriasuparak.com/DSprognotestextonly.htm
$5 Donation...Refreshments Free...
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Saturday AUGUST 24 The 2002 Cinemaker Texas Tour Curated and introduced by Jen Proctor for the Austin Cinemaker C0-Op minicine host a crew of avid Super 8 filmmakers from Austin Texas' Cinemaker Co-Op in another amazing cultural exchange. All films in this program are made by Texas filmmakers, shot on Super 8 and were originally screened at an Austin Cinemaker Co-Op festival. The Cinemaker Co-Op is a non-profit film resource center dedicated to the belief that film can be- and is- a financially accessible art form. To that end, Cinemaker provides low cost Super 8 film equipment, rental as well as a variety of educational workshops, screening salons, and film festivals throughout the year. Doors open @ 7:00PM... Films roll @ 8PM... 824 Texas Avenue...
For information about Austin Cinemaker Co-Op: http://www.cinemaker.org
$5 Donation...Refreshments Free...
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Saturday AUGUST 3 The Best of "The Aurora Picture Show" For information about The Aurora Picture Show visit http://www.aurorapictureshow.org Doors open @ 8:30PM... Films roll @ 9PM... 824 Texas Avenue... $5 Donation...Refreshments Free...
minicine host Andrea Grover to present The Best of "The Aurora Picture Show" This curated program brings to Shreveport a selection of the best experimental and independent film screened in Houston's premier microcinema. The Aurora Picture Show was founded and is operated by Ms. Grover. Please check back for more information on this screening.
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And in the Zebra Room this Summer @ 180 Degrees Sept 21... Null Unit
Sept 10... 25 Suaves
Aug 22.... Lost Sounds + Digital Leather
July 30... BrightCalmBlue
July 26... Makeout Session + Lil' Hospital + The Starlings
July 21... endtransmission
July 19... The Rupert Bomb
July 07... Ono Ninjas + The Picts + Zack the Rookie
June 29... Gus and Hank + Disharmony + Diamonelle
June 14... Aaron Rosenfeld + Magic Markers
June 12... The Chromatics + Vegas Incident + Diamonelle
Brought to you by Spoon, Eye & Ear Control, KSCL 91.3fm, CEB, 941, Shrevepunx, minicine?
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Thursday JULY 11 The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival For more information visit http://www.gadaboutfilmfest.com Doors open @ 8:30PM... Films roll @ 9PM... 824 Texas Avenue... $5 Donation...Refreshments Free...
minicine host a roving, rambling crew of independent filmmakers adrift across america on a trek to take a bevy of home spun films to audiences everywhere... The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival will feature shorts by independent filmmmakers from New York, Upstate New York, Boston, St Louis and inbetween. This program will include narrative, comedy, drama, "art for art's sake" and animation. Independence forever...
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Tuesday, APRIL 23 Alien Anomolies Outta Other Cinema Anonymous: "Merry Christmas'... For more information visit http://www.othercinema.com Doors open @ 9PM... 514-516 Texas Street... next to the Hayride... $5 Donation... ages 18yrs. and up... 
minicine host Craig Baldwin (Tribulation 99, Sonic Outlaws, S.O.S.) to screen the greatest hits from his Other Cinema... Located in San Francisco's Mission District, Other Cinema is the genetic source pool of new film and video in America. Craig will be on the road (alive and in person) to present this exceptional collection of films. Winnebago, moped, thumb in the air, whatever it takes...
Craig Baldwin: "Tribulation 99" (exc.)...
Steve Dye: "Zero"...
John Ducette: "Exercycle" (exc.)...
J.X. Williams: "Psych-Burn"...
Jason Baumrucker: "Dissolves"...
Greta Snider: "Hard-Core Home-Movie"...
Greta Snider: "Urine Man"...
Mormon Church: "Man's Search for Happiness" (exc.)...
Scott Stark: "Angel Beach"...
Thad Povey: "Thine Inward-Looking Eyes"...
Scratch Film Junkies": St. Louise"...
Marilyn Van DeBur: "Surprises of Failure"(exc)...
Martha Colburn: "Spiders in Love"...
Gibbs Chapman: "Examination of Exhibits"...
Kerry Laitala: "Hallowed"...
James Hong: "Behold the Asian"...
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Thursday, APRIL 11 AV/Geeks During the day a mild-mannered computer tech support technician, Skip Elsheimer, 35, spends most of time and money collecting, archiving and presenting old 16mm educational films. What started as a hobby almost ten years ago, the collection has grown to almost 12,000 films gathered from school auctions, thrift stores, closets and dumpsters. Skip recently purchased an old boarding house with eight bedrooms - five of which are filled with films. He presents monthly themed film shows in his home base of Raleigh, NC and Durham, NC - shows like "Film a Commie for Mommie" - a collection of films about communism and its threat to the American way of life; or "Anatomy of an Auto Accident" - educational films about car crashes. Recently, he's taken his shows on the road to Boston's Coolidge Cinema and New York's American Museum of the Moving Image, where he did an eight show retrospective. Films from his archive have been released on DVDs - "Social Engineering 101" and "Sex and Drugs" Two more DVDs are due in June - "On the Job" and "Driver's Ed". For more information visit http://www.avgeeks.com Doors open @ 8PM... 514-516 Texas Street... next to the Hayride... $5 Donation... ages 18yrs. and up... 
More Dates for Kay(1952) Film for girls wanting to get dates
Teeth(1970) American Dental Association gets as hip as it can.
The Lunatic(1972) Not your average VD film. Who is "the lunatic"?
Purely Coincidental(1980s?) A paranoid melodrama about food safety
Parent To Child About Sex(1967) A film about sex education with some truly awkward scenes
The Huntsman(1972) A young kid learns about life while selling old golf balls at a country club.
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Saturday, MARCH 23 GATHERERS OF LIGHT minicine?host Gatherers of Light, a convergence of film and media talent from around the country and Louisiana, to present new film, video and performance. As part of Arts in the Edge, sponsored by the Shreveport Regional Arts Council, this event will occupy five or more underutilized or abandoned buildings in a portion of downtown Shreveport for site specific film screenings, installations and performance. Participants include: Wet Gate, San Francisco; Luke Savisky, Austin; Basement Films, Albuquerque; Courtney Egan and Helen Hill, New Orleans; Ryan Rebouche, Beaumont; Jon Rothell and Chris Jay, Shreveport, in addition to over 40 Shreveport film and videomakers, painters, photographers and artists of other media. 710 Texas Street - WEST EDGE ARTSPACE 514 Texas Street 512 Texas Street 712 Texas Street - C.C.Hardman 605 Texas Street - KUUMBA Fine Arts Gallery 609 Texas Street 610 Texas Street 611 Texas Street 615 Texas Street 617 Texas Street 619 Texas Street 417 Texas Street - The Noble Savage Tavern Doors open @ 7PM... in the 400, 500, 600, 700 blocks of Texas Street in the West Edge... Free! Supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.
ÒMade in LouisianaÓ Curated Films and Video by Courtney Egan & Helen Hill Ð New Orleans
"Rupert Murdoch Ate the Films We Wanted to Show" Basement Films -Volunteers for the underrepresented underserved filmo thingiesÉ - Albuquerque
"Shreveport Homegrown" Video Installation by Shreveport Film and Video Artists
Group Exhibit - Laos Cooper, Andy Randolph, John Adam Harrington, Jay Marks, Noma Fowler-Sandlin, Sadie Hayden, Baron Capers, Jake Dement, Katherine Pabody, Kathy Brodnax, Mark Klocko, Marie Butler, Tony Reans, Michael Moore, Johnny Cooper, Cedric Rhodes...
"Sophisticated and 318'ed" Dadaesque Fashion for your circle of confusion...
1.sleepyear: archetypal fashion by allison dickson
2.dancing in your bedroom: an audio and visual collage to feng shui your mind by mary bigelow
3.your clothes could be making you sick: fashions by bryan sullivan and jen wasson
"A.R.S.E." New 16mm Film by Jon Rothell and Chris Jay - Shreveport
"WET GATE" All 16mm-projectionist-ensemble w/Peter Conheim, Owen OÕToole & Steven Dye Ð San Francisco
Group Exhibit - Centenary Art Department - Shreveport
"Strippenfilm" Outdoor Film Installation by Luke Savisky Ð Austin
"Metal Man" Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit by Matt Hazelton - Shreveport
Window Exhibit
Paintings by Larry Holston - Grambling
Wood Sculptures by Ricky D. Lee - Angola
Paintings by Francis Drew (Upstairs)
Southern University African American Museum
"Photography & Hand-Built Pots"
Group Exhibit - Edward Wilson, Talbot Hopkins Trudeau, Diane Nelson, Conway Link, Sam Mason - Shreveport
Music by Kathryn Hobgood Trio
"Overindulging in Mindless Bliss" Paintings and Drawings by Eric Dean and Gretchen Guier - Shreveport
"Sounds likeÉ" - Endless music consisting of percussion, turntables, laptops, violens, cello, guitars, saxophone, trombone, and other electronics and found sounds.
"G.C.R." Zebra Room - Buddy Flett - Shreveport
"Chaos Hags" Video Installation by Courtney Egan Ð New Orleans
Òmemento moriÓ Paintings by Donna Moore - Shreveport
"Brew Ha-Ha!" Comedy by Eric Gipson - Shreveport
"Boondogs" Alternative Music- Little Rock
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Thursday, FEBRUARY 28 a Peripheral Produce north american film tour: MATT MCCORMICK is a 29-year-old filmmaker who uses original and found footage to create short, poignant collages. His experimental documentary "The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal" is a keen observation of how the process of destroying one art unwittingly creates another, and was an official selection of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. "The Vyrotonin Decision" is a found footage disaster spoof that was awarded the "Best Experimental Film" at both the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals. Other films of Matt's which have been receiving attention include "Sincerely Joe P Bear", a sad love-letter from a heartbroken Polar bear, which screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His brand new abstract short "Going to the Ocean" just premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2001. JOHNNE ESCHLEMAN is a mobile experiment in spontaneous cinema. Johnne projects hand-made films while performing a live soundtrack, creating an ever-changing and intimate viewing experience. He recently toured the US with his performance-installation piece, "The Traveling Cinema". He has presented his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; PS 1, New York; the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; and many other venues around the country. Eschleman's "The Read Letters" is a movie in which two 16mm projectors roll simultaneously, projecting side-by-side images of bleached found footage and text which has been hand scratched directly into each frame. Johnne accompanies the film with a live soundtrack using electronic keyboards and a xylophone. Both artists are founding members of Peripheral Produce, a Portland based film collective that has gained international attention for its guerrilla style screening events and videotape distribution projects. Peripheral Produce distributes titles by Bryan Boyce, Bill Brown, Negativland, Miranda July, Craig Baldwin, Jim Trainor, Gerard Holthuis, Vanessa Renwick, The Distance Formula, Animal Charm, Sarah Marcus and Kate Hardy, and others. For more information visit http://www.rodeofilmco.com or contact Peripheral Produce, C/O The Rodeo Film Company, P.O. Box 40835, Portland, Oregon 97240, (503) 282-6082. Doors open @ 8PM... 514-516 Texas Street... next to the Hayride... Music by DJ Ndf Supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council. $5 Donation... ages 18yrs. and up... 
the short films and projector performances of
Matt McCormick and Johnne Eschleman
MATT MCCORMICK and JOHNNE ESCHLEMAN of Portland's Peripheral Produce pack up the van and hit the road to show movies and see some sights. Matt combines found films with original sounds and images to fashion abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture. Johnne (aka The Distance Formula and/or The Traveling Cinema) deconstructs thrift store home movies one frame at a time and rebuilds them into moody time-based performed installations. Both will be collaborating on new, site-specific pieces that will be unique to each screening event.
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Friday, JANUARY 11 minicine host Third Mind Collective from Chapel Hill, NC, for an evening of music, performance, poetry, and film. William Burroughs first suggested the possibility of a Third Mind. Essentially, when two people collaborate on any given project, a Third Mind is formed out of the merged focus of the two minds. This is the underlying premise of Third Mind Collective. By enabling a mutually beneficial network of creative people, Third Mind Collective and minicine hope to create an event that promotes everyone involved. There is no membership. Only participants. Third Mind Collective $5 Donation... ages 18yrs. and up... 
On Exhibit: sistermicroscope by siamese twins, Allison & Mattie Dickson.... Sound by C.I.A. tuning
Doors open @ 8PM...505 Milam Street, Bailey's Manhattan Deli & Coffee Shop
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Thursday, DECEMBER 27 LOW DOWN HOLIDAY a sceening and participatory environment of film, video, music, performance and sculpture, presented in-person by touring filmmakers Vanessa Renwick and Bill Daniel. This event will begin with a feature length screening of film and video by Portland, Oregon artist Vanessa Renwick and will include her latest work, co-directed with Dawn Smallman, "Richart", a documentary about an inspiring "outsider" artist. Situated in the basement will be "Hobo Moon", a hobo jungle video installation exploring the underground world of freight train art. Following will be an interactive tramp spoondoozle, featuring music by JUBA MOON, spontaneous performance, and an edible cityscape by Shreveport's underground vanguard. A breakfast of hobo pancakes and coffee will be served at some point. Audience members are invited to dress low-down and trampy, and be ready to camp out. Films roll @ 8PM, 824 Texas Avenue Supported in part by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.
Live music by JUBA MOON begins @ 10PM, Zebra Room
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Friday, NOVEMBER 16 Along with Aurora Picture Show, Houston, and Independent Exposure, Seattle, our own minicine? is highlighted in Meet the Micrecians a segment appearing on EGG: the arts show on a PBS Station near you. In Shreveport it airs at 10:30PM November 16th. For more information please go to: EGG: the arts show
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Sunday, OCTOBER 28 minicine travels to New Orleans to screen the homegrown component of the minicine?Local (and now regional) Film & Video Showcase for new short works under 10 minutes in length. Screening to take place at Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments, 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd @ Barrister's Gallery (Between Euterpe and Polymnia in the Venus Gardens Complex) New Orleans, LA, 7:30PM, Sunday, October 28th...
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Thursday, SEPTEMBER 27 minicine host minicine?Local (and now regional) Film & Video Showcase for new short works under 10 minutes in length. Screening to take place at Lee Hardware Gallery, Downtown Shreveport, in conjunction with- poissons: exhibitionistes dans la mer... an exhibition of current painting, photography, and sculpture... including artwork by Allison Dickson as featured in SB Magazine. Gallery Open Thru October, Call 424-6399 For Appointment. Film & Video Program 1) Goodwill Train - George D. Nelson (2:50min.) Email for more info.....minicine@swampland.org
2) Dorothy Sings - Bruce Allen, Kristi Hanna (2:05min.)
3) Sex Machine #2 - Bruce Allen, James Ward (5:30min.)
4) A Form of Noise - Dan Garner (3:25min.)
5) The Soup is Alive - Allison Dickson (1:45min.)
6) Zombie Infestation - Jen Wasson (4:40min.)
7) 3 Mistakes - Ryan Rebouche (2:42min.)
8) The Adventures of Captain Leaf - Robert Trudeau (4:05min.)
9) MieVu - David Nelson (0:27min.)
10) BaylorÕs Day Out - Jon Rothell (7:50min.)
11) Tomato Face Ð Jason Bass, Baton Rouge, LA (1:00min.)
12) The Waste Land - Bryan McCauley, New Orleans, LA (12:25min.)
13) Hair Cut - James Dingle, New Orleans, LA (2:39min.)
14) Deli Very - Thomas Griffin - Austin, TX (3:45min.)
15) Lincoln & 31st - Damien Caldwell - Los Angeles, CA (11:33min.)
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September ? minicine host Nautical Almanac and Meerk Puffy from Baltimore, MD $5 Donation... ages 18yrs. and up... 
to blow our eardrums out....
Artwork by Niece Rachel.... InSex
Doors open @ 11PM...watch this site for more details.... nautical almanac
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minicine VISITING FILMMAKER SERIES 2001- 2002 Over past seasons the minicine Visiting Filmmaker Series has been supported in part by grants from the Louisiana State Arts Council, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture Recreation and Tourism, and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.
Screenings Monthly...
Watch this Site... for locations, times and programs...
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Make Movies Now!
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Submittals minicine? Email for more info....minicine@swampland.org
Send preview VHS tapes to:
824 Texas Avenue
Shreveport, LA 71101
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