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A Spy in the House that Ruth Built
A film by Vanalyne Green
1989, 29 minutes, Color, VHS
Order No. W99012
Vanalyne Green appropriates the all-male arena of professional baseball to create a visual essay about family, loss, and sexuality. Confronted with such a strange wonderland, devoid of women, Green is compelled to reinterpret baseball's symbolism-its womb-like landscape, cycles, and rituals-to construct an iconography that pays homage to the female. With humor and irony, Green creates a tape that is both a personal revelation and a heretical portrait of America's national past-time.
AWARDS, FESTIVALS, & SCREENINGS

- USA Film Festival Short Film and Video Competition, First Place, Experimental
- Museum of Modern Art
- Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Best Experimental Video
- AFI National Video Festival
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QUOTES

"A startling, brave work. Her completely fresh perspective turns up angles and under-bellies of the game-mythic, banal, funny, painful-undreamed of in the stands."
Peter Schjeldahl
7 Days
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