Communication Breakdown
NR, 60 min.
Directed by Various, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

These films from Brooklyn’s Ocularis Cinema traveling program focus on the age of misinformation in which the media transmits mixed signals. The program includes “Dark, Jailed Rhinocerous” by Juan Carlos Ccremata (Cuba, 18 min.), “Special Report” by Brian Boyce (4 min.), “White Bait Run On” by Stackable Thumb (8 min.), “Hobart” by Caspar Stracke (13 min.), “Drink Me” by Lisa Barnstone (4 min.), “The Drowning Room” by Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley (10 min.), and “Communicorp: Revisited” by Torsten Zenas Burns (3 min.). The program is curated by Karyn Riegel.

This article appears in March 8 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.