Past: a retelling of Uncle Tom's Cabin
PAST retells 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' with a wink to history by examining Mrs Stowe’s relationship with UNCLE TOM through dance, art and an original sound score that both pokes and intensifies the nostalgia for racism in America today.
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Duston SpearDirectorRed Thread : the prisoner and the painter
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Martha MookeKey Cast
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Cynthia Fuller-KlingKey Cast
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Andre NoelKey Cast
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Project Type:Short, Web / New Media
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Runtime:8 minutes 17 seconds
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Completion Date:August 20, 2014
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Production Budget:8,500 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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FilmideoIndex Art Center,Newark , New Jersey
September 27, 2014 -
Window StudioBed-Stuy , Brooklyn, New York
October 17, 2014
An exhibiting artist in NYC for over thirty years with work in the collections of the Brooklyn, Metropolitan and Weatherspoon Art Museums. Spear has won awards from the New York State Counil on the Arts for Film and Electronic Media (2013), Creative Time, Art Matters and fiscal sponsorship from the NYFoundation for the Arts for 3 of her projects. Her first short film 'Red Thread:the prisoner and the painter' is being distributed by IndiePixFilms.com Her production company makes short films that promote activism through art.
Past is a directorial re-do... in the fourth grade, in my all white school in Virginia I directed and starred as Uncle Tom using a Classic Comic Book as my script.