Director Jody Mack conceived her 28 minute color xerox animated musical while on a visit to Oregon. It just won the Jury’s Choice First Prize at the Black Maria Film Festival in Jersey City.
I am not going to claim Yard Work Is Hard Work as an Oregon film, although students of Oregon film history will see the influence of Jim Blashfield.
TRUE FILM GEEK ALERT: Devoted scholars of Oregon film history will recall that James Ivory’s dad, inventor Edward Ivory, worked for Thomas Edison, the proprietor of the first Black Maria, the rooftop film studio after which the Black Maria Film Festival was named.
But because Yard Work Is Hard Work was conceptualized in Oregon, I do hereby claim Jody Mack as a lillypadder.
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