documentary
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Read More: NYU Culture and Media @ 20I made a quick trip to NY to attend the celebration for NYU’s Culture and Media Program which I participated in somewhat unofficially in its earliest years by taking the…
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Read More: Documentary and Space
According to Ryan Bowles and Rahul Mukherjee, in their introduction to “Documentary and Space,” Media Fields Journal, Issue 3: “New forms, modes, and genres of documentary have sparked their own…
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Read More: Life in a Clock on a ScreenWho knew? The YouTube indie-movie Life in a Day is the freaky feel-good twin of the art-world movie The Clock: they construct dogmatically linear narratives with staccato marches forward to…
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Read More: It’s a Mystery to Me: les clesThe third day of my show PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces brought this remarkable and unexpected video by Shu Lea Cheang. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk7TOUiQ7-Q&w=425&h=349] Unexpected in two senses. First, I had…
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Read More: Form is Feeling: Remembering AIDSIn the past few days, I’ve seen two powerful film screenings featuring works that historicize AIDS in the 1980s: We Were Here (“the first documentary to take a deep and…
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Read More: Men Shooting Films in Caves
It’s like reality TV for famous filmmakers: wacky games with ridiculous rules bring out the real man. In this episode, our intrepid directors don’t have to eat maggots but they…
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Read More: Distraction Span: Disjointed Rapidfire Thought Requested
My friend Brian Goldfarb and I just released Distraction Span: Technologies of Productive Disruption at MediaCommons. “With this cluster of The New Everyday we initiate a conversation about social media…
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Read More: Hooters at FusionHooters, Anna Margarita Albelo’s documentary about the making of The Owls, will play this Sunday at 3 at Fusion, LA’s Queers of Color Film Festival. It’s a great film about…
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Read More: In That Giftshop is not a Doc It Should Win The Documentary Oscar
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fake documentary artfully mixing staged and true realist documents that represent the art market’s inability to–or need for–discerning talent, value, honesty, and “truth”…
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Read More: Bechdel’s Bechdel (1997)
I have been following Alex Vesy’s “Bechdel Test Canon” at Feminist Music Geek. The Bechdel Test seems to be going as viral as any lesbian thing ever could. I recently…