How to Fly (1981)
With HOW TO FLY, Bowes abandoned plot entirely, finding other forms of structure. He wanted to show that stories do not have to obsessively organize and explain data, and that television’s hundreds of simultaneous, fragmented narratives – news, fiction, commercials, sports, etc. – had prepared audiences for this new type of structure. — Charles Ruas
Director: Ed Bowes
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Joe Hannon as |
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Gregor Hornyak as |
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Phil O'Reilly as |
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Kathleen Kiernan as |
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Regina Maher as |
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Gretchen Bender as |
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Robert Longo as |
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Elizabeth Cannon as |
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Raymond Chandelaire as |
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Oscar De Villa as |
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Donna Smith as |
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Pat Jacobs as |
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Edmund Berrigan as |
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Anselm Berrigan as |
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Mary McArthur as |
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Jamie Dalglish as |
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Yoki Iwashiro as |
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Sarah Young as |
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Gail Hallberg as |
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Helen Ciampi as |
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Diane Reuthe as |
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Tom Trapanni as |
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Mary Triebert as |
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Rosita Camarda as |
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Edward Dunphy as |
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Mary Jane Murgolo as |
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Vinnie Trapanni as |
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Michael Zwack as |
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Rose Hall as |
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Carvin Eison as |
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Ed Bowes as |
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Sheila McLaughlin as |
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Glenda Heidler as |
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Isabelle Nixon as |
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Michael Nixon as |
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Dick Tiernan as |
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Barry Le Va as |
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Vito Acconci as |
| Directing | Ed Bowes | Director |
| Writing | Ed Bowes | Writer |
| Writing | Karen Achenbach | Writer |
| Directing | Karen Achenbach | Co-Director |
| Directing | Tom Bowes | Co-Director |
| Writing | Tom Bowes | Writer |
| Production | Carvin Eison | Coordinating Producer |
| Production | Kit Fitzgerald | Executive Producer |
| Production | John Sanborn | Executive Producer |
| Production | Larry Turcotte | Production Manager |
| Camera | Dick Tiernan | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Phil O'Reilly | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Howard Grossman | Director of Photography |