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COVIDEO day five: Summer Stock

As folks in Canada practice ever more stringent social distancing and self-isolation, Bowen Islander Michael Nankin (a producer, director and writer who moved up from Los Angeles) started a sort of online film festival called 'Covideo.'
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A man dancing on a soundstage with a newspaper in his hand
Screenshot / Summer Stock

As folks in Canada practice ever more stringent social distancing and self-isolation, Bowen Islander Michael Nankin (a producer, director and writer who moved up from Los Angeles) started a sort of online film festival called "Covideo."

Every day Nankin will post on Facebook (and share with the Undercurrent) a short or clip "with the intent to make our isolation a bit more bearable."

See days one, two, three and four.

Day five: Summer Stock

"For some reason I turn to Gene Kelly as my dancer version of comfort food," writes Nankin. "Here he is in Summer Stock, 1950, in a dance that is stripped to absolute simplicity. The story: a man thinking of the girl he loves. Here's a gem."