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John Akre Filmography

1973-1977

Various Family Movies 8mm

1974

Noah's Ark 8mm

1976

Life on Zork Super 8

1977

The Planet Super 8 30

The Monument Super 8

A SIC Film Super 8

1978

The Terrorists Super 8

Another SIC Film Super 8

1979

The Incident Super 8

Gone with the Paycheck Super 8

Julius Caesar Super 8

A Trashy Film Super 8

1980

Calculator Abuse: Man or Myth Super 8

Return of the Hiblings Super 8

1981

On the Prospect of Peace in the Middle East Super 8

Dead Poets in Living Colour Super 8

1983

Charge It! Super 8

Feet 16mm

1984

A Bout d'Allumettes 16mm

No More Carrots Daddy 16mm

1985

Cut on Frame Line Super 8

Echoes of the Crowd 16mm

1986

Better Pictures 16mm

Wayne Newton - The Movie 16mm

1988

Hungry Hollow 16mm

P 16mm

May Day 16mm

Phillips footage 16mm

1989

Exploding Head Trick: Lucky 7 VHS

EHT: Now I'm Grown Up VHS

In 1987, My Grandparents VHS

Chicago Avenue Belongs to Us VHS

Film for EHT Performance Super 8

1990

Powderhorn: People Celebrate the Park VHS 27:06:0

EHT: PKU VHS

The History of Minneapolis VHS 24:52:0

Wheel VHS 40:00:0

Vacant and Boarded S-VHS 27:41:0

1991

Rally Jan. 14, 1991 S-VHS

Rally Feb. 16, 1991 S-VHS

No Blood Money S-VHS 29:00:0

No Crops without Planting S-VHS 22:00

Bannering, Leafletting S-VHS 28:54:0

Persian Gulf Task Force S-VHS

Good Friday Phillips S-VHS

The Drum You Carry With You 3/4"

Kidz Paint the Hood SVHS

All People S-VHS

Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) S-VHS

19-Jul-91 S-VHS

Seeing Hearing Touching Tasting Phillips S-VHS 27:30:0

Message for Durenburger S-VHS 25:50:0

Powderhorn 4th 101 S-VHS

Labor Day: Lake and Bloomington S-VHS

Exploding Head Trick at Nicollet Island S-VHS

Art Festival at Powderhorn S-VHS

Close the Liquor Store S-VHS

Lake Street Lutefisk S-VHS

Film for EHT Performance 16mm

1992

Independent Living S-VHS 8:00

Youth and Police S-VHS

MLK Day at Elliot Park S-VHS 27:54:0

A Lyndale Celebration: MLK S-VHS 28:09:0

Cosmic Cats 3/4"

A Bombay Party 3/4"

Scenes from a Powderhorn 4th 3/4"

Woodswedding Norain Peopleparty 3/4" 25:55:0

Maria Serrano Speech 3/4" 28:30:0

Mila Zetu 3/4" 28:56:0

Picnic on Portland 3/4" 19:15

Vacation Explanation Amplification SVHS 27:38:0

Return to Better Pictures 3/4" 15:00

Poetry for Franklin Avenue 3/4"

A Video on the Neighborhood Safe Art Spot 3/4"

Phillips NRP Kickoff 3/4"

May Day Can Vote 3/4"

The Liquor Store is Closed 3/4"

Bush Bash 3/4"

Film for EHT Performance 16mm

Park Kids Nutcracker 3/4"

1993

Phelps Park Jazz Workshop SVHS 59:00:0

Incautious of the Sun S-VHS

Hold Your Fire S-VHS

Hold Your Fire documentary S-VHS

Space is the Place S-VHS

Annie Young on the Green Institute S-VHS

AIM 25th Anniversary Celebration S-VHS 15:00

Americana Classic Jazz Orchestra S-VHS 30:00:0

Video Versus Cars S-VHS

Film for Tribo Performance 16mm

Tribo S-VHS

Park Kids Nutcracker SVHS

1993-1998

Minneapolis Neighborhood News #1 - 41 S-VHS

1994

Winter Journal 1994 S-VHS

A Recipe for Mother Ginger's Kitchen SVHS

1995

Hugh Steers 1962-1995 S-VHS

1996

Art-A-Whirl S-VHS

Mississippi River Clean-up S-VHS

James Howard Kunstler Keynote S-VHS

1997

Butte Magic Proposal S-VHS

Fun, Easy and Hard: Backstage at the City Children's Nutcracker S-VHS

On the Bus Episode One S-VHS (with Mustafa Tell)

On the Bus Episode Two S-VHS (with Mustafa Tell)

Metro Transit Goes to the Fair S-VHS

Four Out of Four S-VHS

1998

3 Lost Bridge Building Street S-VHS

Chicagotrip Minimovie S-VHS

Photosynthesis DV

My Driveway Story DV

Eyebox DV (with Andrew Welken and Tom Kubasik)

Aaker Reunion DV

Reunion at Paradise DV

Wendy and Shawn: A Wedding DV

Impeachment Day DV

Hurrah for the Hollywood DV

The Hagen Dasz Tanning Salon Conspiracy DV (I just edited it)

Unanticipated Performance DV 4 mins.

Freedom of Choice DV 4 mins.

1999

Minneapolis History Reduction Project DV

Sliced Dreams for Own Performance DV

10 Sliced Dreams DV 30 mins.

96 97 98 Art-A-Whirl DV 8 mins.

Small Circle TV: Backstage with the Prima-Donns DV 30 mins.

Lakeville DV 5 mins. (with Andrew Welken and Tom Kubasik)

Jenny and Ed: A Wedding DV 30 mins.

Marshall St. History Tour DV 30 mins.

Shooting Ignorance DV 20 mins.

A House is 150 SVHS 4 mins.

Talking L.A. Picture Postcard DV 8 mins.

2000

Butte Magic of Ignorance DV 88 mins. (with Rob Price)

Original Spear DV 8 mins.

Little World Schoolhouse DV 5 mins.

Snowwalk DV 3 mins.

Art in the Cities DV 30 mins.

Field - Field 5 DV 15 mins.

Kaia & Kevin 17 June 2000 DV 40 mins.

Mulch video and performance DV

2001

8500 DV 68 mins. (with Trevor Adams)

P.B. and G.B Must Not Be Apart DV 11 mins.

Skinflick DV 4 mins.

We The People Who Told You So DV 5:30 mins.

Walk 03.00 DV 4 mins.

Walk 02.01 DV 5 mins.

Walk 11.00 DV 5 mins.

The Year In SNO DV 5 mins.

Butte Signs DV 4 mins.

Fire Sale DV 15 mins.

Kirsten and Anthony 7 July 2001 DV 52 mins.

Portlandtrip DV 7 mins.

Anthology: Banana DV 12 mins.

Stereolab on Vineland Place DV 12 mins.

Videotrack for Empty AM DV 12 mins.

Fire Sale DV 14 minutes

2002

Video of the Ancient Mixmaster DV 20 mins.

Quitters' Winter DV 36 mins. (with Trevor Adams, Brian Carlson, Lisa McGrath and Scot Surdez)

Social Sculpture DV 5 mins. (with Jan Elftmann)

Wellstone Candlelight Vigil DV 30 mins.

Rosa Plus Troy DV 45 mins.

Paris Postcard DV 27 minutes

Central Avenue Anti-War Rally DV 20 minutes

Grandma's 90th Birthday DV 27 minutesn

2003

War Protest DV 30 minutes

80 Art Cars 7-4 2002 DV 6 minutes

2003 Art Car Parade and Greenway Parade of Arts DV 20 minutes

Reading My Book DV 30 minutes (camera by Trevor Adams)

Vigil for Peace DV 50 minutes (additional camera by Hamil Griffin Cassidy)

Day of the Dead DV 26 minutes

San Francisco Postcard DV 7 minutes

2004

5 Short Movies About Paris DV 26 minutes

I Am Shovel DV 5 minutes

The Author reads from Symphony of a Thousand Novel From Zero. DV 29:10

SNO Year in Review - DV - 5 mins.

Speed Painting Performance - DV - 10 minutes

On Transit #4 Los Angeles - DV 22:30

2003 Art Car Parade in less than 5 mins. - DV 5 mins.

On Transit #5 - 8 Hiawatha Line Opens - DV 28:30

On Transit #9 Portland TriMet - DV 28:30

On Transit #10 Portland Streetcar - DV 28:30

Jacobson Family Reunion - DV 33 mins.

Taps for Huck - DV 10 mins.

2005

On Transit #11 & #12 Hiawatha Line Completion - DV 28 mins each

Cassidy Basement Dreams - 16mm & DV 8 mins. 2004

Minneapolis Art Car Parade - DV 30 mins.

Wirth While Weekend - DV 30 mins.

On Transit #13 - Transit Day at the Capitol - DV - 28 mins

On Transit #14 - Hiawatha Remix - DV - 28:00

On Transit #15 - Transportation Rally at State Capitol - DV - 28:30

SNO Way 04-05 - DV - 5 mins.

On Transit #16 - Funding Cut Testimony - DV - 28:30

Drawing Movies in the Dark - DV - 8:00

On Transit #17 - Midtown Greenway Streetcar - DV - 28:00

Peace Across the Northside - DV - 28:30

On Transit #18 - Interact Artists Review Hiawatha Art - DV - 28:30

On Transit #19 - Midtown Greenway Phase II Opening - DV - 28:15

Garden Richter 5 - DV - 4 minutes

Red Lodge Reunion - DV - 40 mins.

On Transit 20 - Infinity Transit Odyssey 1 - DV - 26:40

On Transit 21 - Infinity Transit Odyssey 2 - DV - 26:30

On Transit 22 - Infinity Transit Odyssey 3 - DV - 27:00

On Transit 23 - Infinity Transit Odyssey 4 - DV - 27:30

On Transit 24 - Infinity Transit Odyssey 5 - DV - 27:30

On Transit 25 - Infinity Transit Odyssey 6 - DV - 28:00

On Transit 26 - Infinity Transit Odyssey 7 - DV - 28:30

2006

Legacy Fountain and Gardens Dedication - DV - 18:14

SNO Annual Meeting Video - DV - 4:00

NRP Phase II Video - DV - 4:00

On Transit 27 - Midtown Greenway Annual Meeting - DV - 28 min.

On Transit 28 - STPP Conference pt. 1 - DV - 28:00

On Transit 29 - STPP Conference pt. 2 - DV - 28:30

Wargoon Flishe trailer - DV - 4:00

First Image - DV - 8:00

The Busycle in Minneapolis - DV - 9:00

On Transit 30 - Portland Yellow Line and Walking - DV - 27:30

Acting Audience - DV - 9:00

On Transit 31 - Vacation Video pt 1 - DV - 27:00

On Transit 32 - Vacation Video pt 2 - DV - 26:30

Garden Richter 6 - DV - 4:00

Perfect Impossible Book - DV - 8 min.

Mouth Movie - DV - 8 mins.

On Transit 33 - Busycle, Midtown Greenway Phase 3, City Repair - DV - 27:17

On Transit 34 - Railvolution Pt. 1 - DV

On Transit 35 - Railvolution Pt. 2 - DV

On Transit 36 - Railvolution Pt. 3 - DV

2007

Wargoon Flishe - DV - 71 mins.

Eating for the Dead - with Marla Goodman - DV - 7 minutes

The Sweetie Potatoes - DV - 1 minute

SNO Annual Meeting Video 2007 - DV - 4 mins.

The Monkey Mugs Make Media Magic, Episodes 1-20 - Flash - 2 - 3 mins. each

I Hate My Job - Flash - 3 mins (song by Marla Goodman)

MTN Station ID's Word 1-3 - Flash - 3-5 mins each

Visited by Martha Stewart - Flash - 3 mins.

Jack Somebody - Flash - 2:18

Riding Saw - Flash - 1:30

2008

Bedtime for the Quietlees - Flash

Dinnertime for Quietless -

Flash Winsor McCay the Dinosaur - Animation and Performance

Han Shan animations - animated segments for a documentary

Charlton Heston Brought Back From the Dead - Flash - 1:44

Moving Me - 1:12

Cars for Hats - Flash - 2:08

Bike Walk Ambassadors Project Launch - 4:46

Tales of Itsy and Bitsy - 2:35

Liberty Parade - DV - 7:22

the unconvention at Peavy Plaze - DV - 4:38

The Adventures of TowelMan - Flash - 0:44

Parking Day in Minneapolis - 3:33

The Ouchies - Flash - 2:03

Contact: jakre@earthlink.net