Jo Ann Kaplan(1945-2016)

Editor
Director
Actress

VASLAV works for a multinational corporation as a minor accountant; he hates his work and has a secret ambition to be a dancer - but his job forbids contact with artistic organisations. He finds BIRD, an exotic hybrid woman who teaches dance to a bizarre community and has a pet wolf. FRAME the corporate surveillance man and DOG the security guard follow Vaslav to the studio and film him dancing; they show the evidence to KASH the company boss who confronts Vaslav. Bird flies in....and somehow, with the help of wolf, the world is changed...

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The Life Class

Jo Ann Kaplan was born in 1945 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an editor and director, known for The Zip (1989), The Story of I (1997) and OneTwoThree (2010). She died in May 2016 in the UK.

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The Zip

7.7

Short

Director

1989

The Story of I

5.8

Short

Editor

1997

OneTwoThree

9.0

Short

Editor

2010

Invocation: Maya Deren

6.0

Director(as Joann Kaplan)

1987

Credits

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Editor

Through the Hawthorn
6.1
Short
- Editor
- 2014
OneTwoThree
9.0
Short
- Editor
- 2010
The Life Class
Short
- Editor
- 2008
The Old Fools
5.8
Short
- Editor
- 2002
Dancing Under the Dust Cover
4.2
TV Short
- Editor
- 2001
Five Steps to Tyranny
7.6
TV Movie
- Editor
- 2001
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
7.6
TV Movie
- off-line editor
- 2000
Pleasures of War
6.8
Short
- Editor
- 2000
Close Up
TV Series
- Editor
- 1999
A Night with Handel
8.4
TV Special
- Editor
- 1997
The Story of I
5.8
Short
- Editor
- 1997
Omnibus
7.2
TV Series
- Editor
- 1997
Gotta Get Out
Short
- Editor
- 1995
Those British Faces
6.4
TV Series
- Editor
- 1993
Weak and Wild Astray
Short
- Editor
- 1992

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Actress

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The Life Class

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Official sites
- Artist's site
- BFI
Alternative name
- Joann Kaplan
Born
- 1945
- New York City, New York, USA
Died
- May 2016
- UK

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Painter, film maker and film studies teacher at universities and film schools.

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