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CSU, Fresno's Independent Daily NewsSource
Monday, April 3,1995
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A
Hat Attack
Clovis Big Hat Day festival
featured live music, a rib��cook-off and arts and crafts
booths. The annual festival
held Saturday and Sunday
estimated crowds of around
100,000 to 120,000 people,
and covered several blocks
of Old Town Clovis.
Below. Don of Don's Candle
Ranch juggles in front of his
booth at the festival.
Photos by Zia Nizami
Festival rewards
student films
By Draeger Martinez
Staffwriter
. Though still a fledgling
student organisation, CSU,
Fresno's Motion Picture Society
(MPS) has big plans and the will
to act on diem as evident in their
fifth annual film festival held this
past weekend
The festival began Satur¬
day morning with an exhibition
of entrants into the MPS's first
student film competition ever.
William Heisinger's "Angels
Don't" won first prize, consist¬
ing of $50 and a certificate of
acknowledgment Heisinger's
film; a homage to the Gabriel
Garcia-Marquez short story "A
Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings," utilized stop-motion
animation.
Stop-motion films, such as
"AngebDon'randTimBurton's
"The Nightmare Before Christ¬
mas," involve a painstaking pro¬
cess of creating clay figures or
i puppets and moving them in¬
finitesimal distances before See FUJI, Page 5
Dashu teaches
overlooked histories
shooting each frame. Heisinger
estimated that using this process
meant the creation of about 10
minutes offilm required over 30
hours of animation.
Aaron Ruell and Zach
Upson took second place with
their piece titled "Stall" "Stall",
tells the surreal story of a man
who wordlessly demands entry
into a public restroom stall, only
to find the victim of suicide or
murder there. "We shot it in
Clovis a couple years ago," Ruell
said, "usinga huge, early-£Qs vin¬
tage VHS camera." Ruell also ex¬
plained how the pair achieved
"Stall's" sinking sepia tones and
disturbing "negative polarity"
segments in the editing process,
as well as using chocolate syrup
for "blood" from the hapless vic¬
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Third place went to Kevin
Bcotfor"TheShipment/'asQme-
what clever take on the drug-
runner action'film genre. Boot
also submitted an instructional
film titled "An Introduction to
By Lucy Her
Staffwriter
In elementary school, stu¬
dents learn that Columbus dis¬
covered America. It does not say
that the Indians made the dis¬
covery. In junior high school, stu¬
dents learn that Abraham Lin¬
coln was a great president dur¬
ing tht Civil War and that he was
against slavery. It does not say
that he owned slaves of his own
In high school, students learn
about the persecution of the jews,
but they are not taught the real
reasons behind theirprosecution.
It is because they were not white
enough or Christian enough, said
Max Dashu, a freelance women's
studies teacher from Oakland.
Throughout his to ry, people
havebeen denied the knowledge
of other cultures, she said. This is
the reason she/Started doing her
own research "I read everything
about anything," Dashu said.
She also started taking pic-
hires of facts she saw and found
and made them into shdes. "Im¬
ages are a really good way to see
things," she said The slides are
used during her presentations or
V
During a recent presentation
at ■■CSU, Fresno, Dashu talked
aboutthe forgotten contributions
of non-white cultures. For ex¬
ample, Zimbabwe was the earli¬
est country to use steeL Also, the
connection of Egypt and Africa
has been overlooked by histori¬
ans, Dashu said. She also said
many people find it hard to be¬
lieve mat so much knowledge
and inventions came from Afri¬
can country.
Other examples she gave
were the Holy Wars. During tfus
time, the popeentjced young men
into fighting through convinc¬
ing mem of white dominance.
He portrayed the white race as
the purest and as being superior.
As a result, anyone who was not
white was killed. This led to the
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