Movie: How to Fly

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Joe Hannon
Joe Hannon

Gregor Hornyak
Gregor Hornyak

Phil O'Reilly
Phil O'Reilly

Kathleen Kiernan
Kathleen Kiernan

Regina Maher
Regina Maher

Gretchen Bender
Gretchen Bender

Robert Longo
Robert Longo

Elizabeth Cannon
Elizabeth Cannon

Raymond Chandelaire
Raymond Chandelaire

Oscar De Villa
Oscar De Villa

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    With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc. – had prepared audiences for this new type of structure. — Charles Ruas

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    1981-01-01

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