6:55 Shorts: Selections Announced

Beneath the City

This is a story that follows four subway performers' lives. We will show the best and the worst of their chosen career, and what drives them to keep performing. Read more

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Bread and Circuses: The Story of Os Mutantes

The story of Os Mutantes is perhaps one of the strangest in the entire history of rock music, and it has inspired artists as varied as Beck and Nirvana. The 1960's Brazilian rock band performed in disguise and under threat from the Brazilian music establishment and the right-wing military dictatorship. Read more

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Competing Thoughts

I'll use pickup soccer as a microcosm of our globalized culture. A rare hub of race, class, and sometimes gender, pickup soccer is arguably one of the most diverse gatherings in Boston. Anyone is welcome, and often there's no score. I'll discuss the pros and cons of competition, and alternatives to it. Read more

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The End of the World

This is an animated White River Sioux story. Somewhere near the Badlands lives an extremely old woman who is making a blanket out of porcupine quills. Beside her is a huge black dog. Whenever she gets up to stir the soup, the dog pulls the porcupine quills out of the blanket strip. That's because if she ever finishes it, the world will come to an end. Read more

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Kafka-2-Go

A dream for your iPod. A visual accompaniment to three of Franz Kafka's Fragments in which the narrator awakens on a tram, pursues a girl (or is he led?) through empty city streets and, finally rebuffed by her, finds himself alone, standing outside a cemetery. Read more

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