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Read More: Documentary Dıspatch from TurkeyI have been tourıng Istanbul, wındıng down on wındıng roads from the jam-packed Vısıble Evıdence conference (on documentary). I can’t do justıce to the many strong panels I saw: testıment…
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Read More: Films for the Feminist Classroom: “The Owls”FFFC, a new on-line journal that is a side-project of SIGNS, has just published my article, “A Lesbian Collective Aesthetic: Making and Teaching The Owls.” By including the written and…
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Read More: Funding Microbudget Queer Cinema
I just returned from an Owls screening at Outfest. As I’ve written here, the film cost about $25K, raised by small donations from its producers and the generous support of…
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Read More: AIDS Video and CensorshipMy article, “AIDS Video: To Dream and Dance with the Censor” has been recently published at Jump Cut. I had been asked to speak about the history of AIDS video…
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Read More: For Neda: Verite in Context[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F48SinuEHIk&hl=en_US&fs=1&] While I’d be the first to admit that For Neda is not a particularly “good” documentary, in that it does not deliver many (or any) of the complex and…
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Read More: Contractual Mayhem: On the Absurdities of Moving from Paper to Digital in Academic PublishingI am currently negotiating my contract with MIT Press to “publish” my “video-book” about YouTube this Fall. The enlightening, confusing, crazy, friendly, and productive conversations I am having with my…
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Read More: Documenting the Documenters, Take Two: Owls ‘n HootersThe Owls, the collective, experimental docu/fiction lesbian thriller that I produced is showing, now, all over the world. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6WV8UeurQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Look for June US screenings in SF and LA. The docu-comedy,…
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Read More: Documenting the Documenters: More from the AIDS Activist ArchiveI had the opportunity to view screeners of two new AIDS documentaries: Sex in an Epidemic (Jean Carlomusto) and ACT UP New York Highlights: I (Jim Hubbard, Sarah Schulman, and…
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Read More: Lady Professor Sings the Blues
My last post skirted the issue, saying I was “too busy” to perform my professorial labors properly: the hard work of “unpacking” lady Gaga. Ha. I’d actually taught the video…
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Read More: Ka-Kinda Busy[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHXgFU7qNI&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Hello, hello baby. I’m kinda busy right now and don’t have the mental or maybe psychic energy to draw all the links between pop music, homo-erotic war-play, ritual violence,…