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Instructions on How to Fly (5 mins.)

Diana Farfan
Saturday 2:00 PM at the Nickelodeon Theatre

This experimental film is based upon a poem Farfan wrote inspired by the work of Julio Cortazar, specifically "The Instruction Manual."


The short surrealist film is divided into three sections.  The first depicts the hands of Leslie Hinton drawing interpretively after being given Farfan's poem.  She has become a marionette who is giving directions on how to fly through pen and paper.  The second segment features the "Kite Woman" (a ceramic marionette) who observes the drawn directions.  This precedes her departure.  She has learned to fly.  Finally in the thierd section, "Too much Hope" (a ceramic marionette) watches from her swinging pedestal in dark isolation.  She is conscious that her pair of wings is incapable of taking off.  Her weighty existence and corroded metal appendages is all she has.