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ITEM 4 · THE TWO MODERN FORMS TESTED AGAINST THE PRESENT RECORD, AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
The branch's modern forms — the independent filmmaker's thread and the film festival — were tested against the present record in both their tenses: founded, and founded-and-lost. The thread: no independent filmmaker, video artist, or film collective is documented as seated in or working from Walkerton as of November 2026 — a test distinct from the creators leg's (97), which asks after audience-facing digital work and returns its own empty set there; the film-form test here (the festival circuit, the grant record, the regional film community's rolls) is likewise empty for this ground. The festival: no film festival, film series, or cinema society is documented as founded in Walkerton at any date, and therefore none as lost — the region's festival life (the university's and the cities' series) is boundary ground. The item closes DUG as a double negative at present-record strength: the town consumes film through the national platforms, as it consumed it through the Lincoln a century ago, and the production side of the art has never had a Walkerton address.