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Kissing Doesn't Kill
Gran Fury
1990, 40 sec each, color, sound
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Titles by Tom Kalin
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Every Evening Freedom
Every Wandering Cloud
Kissing Doesn't Kill
Some Desperate Crime on my Head
That poured its hot breath
The Robots of Sodom
They are lost to vision altogether
Third Known Nest
Nation
TRANS-VOICES
Description
Ordering & Fees
Documents
Titles by Tom Kalin
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Every Evening Freedom
Every Wandering Cloud
Kissing Doesn't Kill
Some Desperate Crime on my Head
That poured its hot breath
The Robots of Sodom
They are lost to vision altogether
Third Known Nest
Nation
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Kissing Doesn't Kill
Versions 1-4
Gran Fury
1990, 40 sec each, color, sound
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SHORT SHORTS
Press Release
Press release for SHORT SHORTS EAI's summer screening in August 2010.
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