PBS Premiere: July 9, 1991
Synopsis
The camera moves through a Minnesota corn field and finds a photograph of a suburban tract clothes-pinned to a cornstalk. Layered with visual and emotional paradoxes, Turn Here Sweet Corn searches for meaning beyond cliches and nostalgia, as a family farm is lost to speculative suburban real estate developers. Helen De Michiel juxtaposes innovative video techniques with slices of a simpler, threatened life, in an emotional and personal reflection on the colonization of cornfields by shopping malls.
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Turn Here Sweet Corn
Premiere Date: July 9, 1991
Filmmaker: Helen De Michiel
Filmmaker
Helen De Michiel
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