By all accounts, the Sunday, May 13 screening of short films created for the spring Kabaret at Wis-Kino was an entertaining one, all nine completed entries convincingly incorporating the required theme of "complicated." This rather abstract element was announced the previous Friday at the kick-off screening to the biannual festival organized by the local group dedicated to short films. A two-day frenzy of filmmaking followed, capped by the second screening at the Orpheum Stage Door theater.

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• Waxwing by John Feith
  Inspired by a poem in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, music video focuses upon cedar waxwings eating the flowers of a crabapple tree in the UW Arboretum. This serves as the backdrop to "running commentary by a deranged person," explains Feith, who also performed the music for it. "This commentator thinks that this video is brilliant," he quips in conclusion. The short follows:
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