Ellin Stein

About: A light-hearrted comedy about the effects of nuclear radiation, as Susan Hayward and John Wayne debate whether they got cancer from filming downwind from a nuclear test site in 1953. Shot in the 80s when 3/4" VHS was cutting-edge technology. However, thanks to the half-life of nuclear fallout, should remain topical for another 25,000 years.


AWARDS:

Hiroshima Internationall Independent Film and Video Festival -- Hiroshima Prefecture Governors Prize
American Film Institute, Visions of U.S. -- 2nd prize, fiction
Video Culture International, Toronto -- New Media Performance
Chicago Film Festival -- Independent Video
Stockholm International Video Art Festival

COLLECTIONS: Electronic Arts Intermix (New York); Lux Collection (London);



EXHIBITED:

World Wide Video Festival (The Hague); Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol, U.K.); Infermental No. 8 (Tokyo); Aarhus Kunst Museum Videotheque (Stockholm); NOS-TV (Holland); EZTV (Los Angeles); Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY); The Kitchen (New York, New York); X-Change Television (Nicaragua); Santarem Environmental Film Festival (Portugal); Deep Dish TV (US satellite); Montreal Festival of Womens Film & Video (Montreal); Pyramid Club (New York); Downtown Community Television (New York); T. Greathouse Gallery (New York); Alternative Museum (New York);