FILMS
AND VIDEOS BY ALEXIS KRASILOVSKY
1. "EPICENTER U."
Epicenter U. shows people what it's like to survive after an earthquake. This half-hour
documentary is also a film about filmmaking - a multi-cultural portrait of film students from a
university which suffered $350 million in damages, with lives and classrooms lost. "From
gripping testimonials to comic relief, the new film Epicenter chronicles the impact of the
Northridge Earthquake on the people of California State University, Northridge. " - Daily News
"I have never been in an earthquake. While watching the film I really felt, for the first time,
the cost to both the individual and the community of such a disaster. Drawing on
her ownoriginal filmmaking style developed over years of notable filmmaking, she uses a collage of
techniques (cinema verite, direct camera address interviews, slow motion, essayist documentary,
poetry) to explore the film's complex and elusive subject matter. More importantly, perhaps,
is her collaboration with her students. She gives them a real voice. " - Dr. Michelle Gtron,
Radio-Television-Film Department, Northwestern University
28 minutes, 16mm, color (1995). Distributed by Canyon Cinema and Film-Makers'
Cooperative. Also available in VHS, 3/4" and broadcast quality1" video (NTSC and PAL).
Canyon Cinema: 2325 Third Street, Suite 338, San Francisco, CA 94107. Telephone: (415)
626-2255; FAX (415) 626-2255. Film-Makers* Cooperative: c/o The
Clocktower Gallery, 108 Leonard Street, 13th floor, New York, NY 10013 email: film6000@aol.com
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