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The Last Screening Room: A Valentine

Directed by Vera Frenkel
Canada, 1984 (video art, 44 minutes, colour, English)
The Last Screening Room: A Valentine
Image: © V tape

Film Description:
"The Last Screening Room: A Valentine—Valentine's Day is the only festival still celebrated in Canada. This videotape is an electronic valentine made by a woman working for the Province of Ontario as a Privacy Guarantor. Her job is to listen to stories told to her by inmates of Ontario prisons, and to immediately forget them. Story-telling has been out-lawed. The Canada Council has become a branch of the Ministry of Health."
-- V tape (source)

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