AIDS
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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: Two Recent French Films: One Sings the Other Doesn’t
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy158dWdbpw&hl=en&fs=1] Here we have the 2009 Oscar nominated foreign film, The Class (Entre les Murs) exhibiting the real will and best practices of an experimental documentary: actual teacher and real…
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Read More: Milk ‘n Che: The Avant Docs
This is more of a shout out then I usually perform. Simply to say: hey guys, there are some great docs about these revolutionaries to keep in mind. They came…
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Read More: Feminist Movement Media: Thoughts? (see previous post)
Feminist Movement Media The second wave of the American women’s movement was an outgrowth of progressive organizing of the 1960s, including the civil rights, youth, and anti-war movements. Betty Friedan’s…
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Read More: Encyclopedia of Activist Media
Should I have said “Yes. Sure! I’ll write two entries”? Easy to say with so many months between me and the deadline. Then, I put them off to the last…
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Read More: AIDS Video Art Demands and Dances with the Censor
On May 18, I will give an hour-long invited lecture on AIDS video history as part of the landmark Make Art/Stop AIDS show currently up at the Fowler Museum at…