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Read More: @Berkeley@UIL@Academia 2014Granted, it took me awhile to watch Frederick Wiseman‘s 2013 At Berkeley, but @4hrs I’m sure you’ll understand the special nature of this commitment. While I love early Wiseman (Titticut…
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Read More: Web Resources and Activities for Peace, 1: PALESTINEDOCSLast Thursday, I received a group email from two European professors of cinema—Dina Iordanova, Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and Eva Jørholt, Associate…
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Read More: Home Video Returns: Media Ecologies of the Past of HIV/AIDS in Cineaste
Please see my conversation with Ted Kerr, Programs Manager at Visual AIDS, recently published at Cineaste. Initially asked to discuss Dallas Buyer’s Club we felt we needed to take a…
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Read More: Signification Survival: Jump Cut 55The new issue of Jump Cut (55, Fall 2013) is hot off the presses, and as always, it is bursting with great scholarly work on any number of issues near…
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Read More: Blogger, Professor, Artist, Critic, Fan–237–Fan, Critic, Artist, Professor, RedrumNo way out, I’m afraid. Blog my thoughts about, Room 237, the obsessive, fun, cringe-inducing (at least for cineastes like me), self-reflexive film about films and their critics (fans? bloggers?)…
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Read More: The Present and the Gif(t)In his blog here, “Generations,” for SCMS, Chuck Kleinhans said that at his first SCS meeting in the mid-70s “the meeting had two concurrent sessions: the Film Historians on one…
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Read More: Long Story Short, NYCNatalie’s film is an inspiring mix of digital storytelling and artistic vision. Hope to see New Yorkers there!
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Read More: When ACT UP is remembered … On Visual AIDS
Visual AIDS: What will be the benefits of Queer Archive Activism? (Specifically I am hoping you can comment on the benefits for those who made video and film art in…
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Read More: “I made my mourning productive, collective, and interactive …” on Visual AIDS“How can we understand this moment of ‘AIDS Crisis Revisitation’, exemplified by the success of films like United in Anger and How to Survive a Plague. Video artist, activist, and…
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Read More: Palm Springs Art Museum Programs Coincide with World AIDS Day
Please do pass the word, as reported on Palms Springs Life: “Although the day is titled, A Day With(out) Art, the opposite will be true Saturday (Dec. 1) at the…