Shorts: All the World's a Stage
Milliken at the Dennos Museum
Thu, Jul 27, 2017 9:00 AM
The exits and entrances of the male and female players in this lighter program will amuse, inspire, and intrigue. The brilliantly simple premise of “Ten Meter Tower” is ingeniously executed and edited: set up a camera trained on the platform of a 10-meter diving tower, and watch what happens when people make their way up 33 feet of stairs and come face-to-face with peer pressure and survival instinct. In “Iron Hands,” a 12-year-old hoping to be the only girl accepted onto the Chinese youth Olympic weightlifting team gets help from an unexpected quarter. And in “Tenure,” when a wife (Melissa Gilbert, “Little House on the Prairie”) faces a career crossroads that will change her marriage, she remembers some advice offered up by her husband (the film’s director and Gilbert’s real life husband Timothy Busfield, “The West Wing”). Scheduled to Appear: Melissa Gilbert and Timothy Busfield.