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Read More: Millenium’s Experiments in DocumentaryTake a look at Millenium Film Journal’s special issue, No. 51, Experiments in Documentary, edited by Lucas Hildebrand. A strong introductory essay is followed by artist statements/interviews about making work…
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Read More: Documentaries Harbor DocumentsAttended Outfest’s Legacy Project’s screening/fundraiser for the newly restored print of Choosing Children (Debra Chasnoff and Kim Klausner, 1984). I chose children in 1998 (and later made a documentary about…
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Read More: Faujinsky[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dwA2dulwlQ&hl=en&fs=1&] “And then there is…the postmodernists, lets call them, who know that Comte’s postings are fake but like them anyway.” Joan Acocella I’ve been considering for awhile now that as…
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Read More: Fig Trees[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndsdXJWksp0&hl=en&fs=1&] I had the lucky opportunity to watch Fig Trees and then speak with John Greyson about this complicated, funny, intellectual and political film that somehow links documentary interviews of…
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Read More: Meaning(less) Locker
I really liked Hurt Locker. Which is interesting, given my strong anti-war inclinations and its profoundly open-ended stance on this, our war in Iraq. The film plays this war as…
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Read More: No More Potlucksnomorepotlucks.org presents: no. 4 Juillet-August theme: “copie” The Increasingly Unproductive Fake Alexandra Juhasz Dump Gay Marriage Now Yasmin Nair Getting Messy and Complicated with Dana Inkster Dayna McLeod (Colonial) Archives…
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Read More: “Women of Vision” on snagfilms
This is a three-part series on feminist media history from the late 80s. There’s also a book!
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Read More: “Naming Prarie” on snagfilms
Naming Prarie From 2002, this is about the Jewish babynaming ceremony of my lesbian friends, and the community that embraces them.
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Read More: “Dear Gabe” on snagfilms
Dear Gabe I made this documentary in 2003 about the feminist lives and choices of my six closet friends from college.
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Read More: On the “Susan Boyle Experience”
I think Virgina Heffernan is really smart, and look forward to her weekly NYT columns. However, I take some small exception to her recent thoughts on the “Susan Boyle Experience.”…