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Read More: Yvonne Rainer on YouTube
Saw Yvonne Rainer perform at Redcat. Her second dance was Spiraling Down: “this new work draws inspiration from a variety of sources–newspaper photos, soccer moves, old movies, classic modern dance,…
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Read More: On Iran Vέritέ
I’m a fan of Digital Poetics. I support his (and many bloggers) committed support and relay of people-made videos coming from Iran in the face of heightening censorship and oppression.…
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Read More: 13 Most Beautiful
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzOtZg_Zrow&hl=en&fs=1&] On Sunday, I saw 13 Andy Warhol screen tests performed with live music created specially for the tests by Dean & Britta. This was outside, at night, at the…
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Read More: FatelessnessI just saw this 2005 film thanks to Netflix. I had recently read the book thanks to my friend Sarah. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aifZLtzLdU&hl=en&fs=1&] It’s hard for me to think about the work…
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Read More: Dueling BanjosI get this eerie, bored feeling that internet scholars play but don’t listen. Myself included. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8&hl=en&fs=1&] Where boosters see roses: See Howard Rheingold, Vernacular Video in Culture and Education. Snarks…
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Read More: On Watching Bad VideoI’ve spent a long day at an undisclosed location watching a load of bad video. As with all things tedious, cheap, people-made and yet somehow also pretentious, the hours enjoy…
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Read More: The Safety Dance
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] My blog reader (Vienna) has been over-stuffed with videos of culture jams. The song above is thanks to Open Culture. “Last Thursday, in London’s Trafalgar Square, a big crowd…
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Read More: Watermelon Woman: Release Our Print!
Although the film I produced, The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1995) was a festival and art house hit, we never saw any money, and our master rots at DuArt. We…
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Read More: LongForm/YouTube/OxyMoron
Thanks to Chuck at the Chutry Experiment for alerting me to the fact that the docs on snagfilms are now, magically, on YouTube. You see, beyond the many feature docs…
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Read More: Dream Of Life[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpKZ2H7CC3s&hl=en&fs=1] While the reviews of this film labeled it pretentious, I found it to walk the line gracefully, if dangerously, on just this side of inventive. What saves it is…