Make It Real

To open its 2003 season, Soap Factory presents a series of video, film, and visual art that’s all about finding and crossing the line between fiction and reality—more specifically, how we use fiction to assemble our reality. Projects include a trading post where you can swap one of your own mixed-tapes with one of Conrad Bakker’s carved wooden replicas—an excellent way to get rid of those old Whitesnake cassettes. Two fascinating documentaries also get local premieres. Hell House takes us behind the scenes of a Texas scare-the-teens-straight Pentecostal haunted house. And The Battle of Orgreave, directed by Leaving Las Vegas’ Mike Figgis, chronicles artist Jeremy Deller’s painstaking historical re-enactment of a bloody 1984 clash between British riot police and striking miners. Soap Factory, 2nd St. S.E. & 5th Ave. S.E., (612) 623-9176, soapfactory.org