activist media
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Read More: Video Art: Does Access Matter?“The promise held by video, that it could create ‘personal media,’ that normal people could control the production of video imagery and bypass the tightly controlled corporate structure of commercial…
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Read More: Video Art on YouTube: The Name is Equivocal
” VIDEO ART. The name is equivocal. A good name. It leaves open all the questions and asks them anyway. Is this an art form, a new genre? An anthology…
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Read More: Video Art on YouTube: A Matter of Vetting and Consumption
I have been commissioned to write an article about video art on YouTube for the forthcoming scholarly anthology, Resolutions 3 (in the next few weeks I’ll be testing fragments of…
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Read More: AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer CinemaLast Friday night, I attended a screening of nearly twenty-year old AIDS activist videos (the scenes of my youth; the research topic of my juvenalia) which were part of the…
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Read More: The Stake and the WedgeThe female is immanent, the female is bone-deep, the female is instinct. With Lili’s eager complicity, The Professor drives a massive wedge between the masculine and the feminine within her.…
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Read More: A Productive Fake has a Stake: Unnaming in THE OWLSOver the past few days I’ve been teaching my recent writing about fake docs on YouTube to my Media Studies seniors, while thinking a lot about THE OWLS (and reading…
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Read More: Dear IckaprickSo the internet/web 2.0 allows you and I to meet, talk, and learn together, creating new communions and opportunities for weirdness (YouTube shares but does not OWN this). Hi and…
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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: 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…