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In Barrier Device, a 26-minute film by Grace Lee, a researcher conducting a study on female condoms faces an ethical dilemma when she discovers that one of her research subjects is dating her ex-fiance. The short won a Student Academy Award and a Directors Guild of America Student Award when it was released in 2002. College of Lake County professor Patrick Gonder, who’s screening the film this weekend, says it’s a funny but subtle look at the lives of two Korean-American women, and he admires its maturity and discipline: “Unlike a lot of people right out of film school, [Lee] lets the camera watch the characters without intruding.” Lee will be on hand for a discussion after the film is shown tonight at 7 in Room A162 on the college campus, 19351 W. Washington in Grayslake. It’s free; call 847-543-2555.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photos/courtesy Gallery Marion Meyer, Paris, courtesy Evanston Historical Society.
