documentary
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Read More: On Rallies Real and Fake
I’ve been mulling over both my take and my stake in regards to the Rally to Restore Sanity and the recent and related Tea Party March on Washington, not to…
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Read More: i wanted every day to last forever: irwin swirnoff & Kevin J. EversonI had the rare pleasure of seeing experimental film two nights in a row this week, especially gratifying given the paltry mainstream fare I’ve been viewing lately to feed this…
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Read More: Social Network: nah, I’ll watch “The Facebook Documentary” live, on-lineI’ve written extensively here about the mis-steps of the usually celebrated terrain of convergence: the too easy, sloppy, ill-conceived contemporary media moves between documentary, fiction, and hybrid back again. To…
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Read More: Faking/Taking Woodstock
I watched Ang Lee’s 2009 “Taking Woodstock” a few night ago, but couldn’t keep the real “Woodstock” (movie) out of my mind’s eye. I’m a big fan of Lee and…
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Read More: Casey Affleck’s “Big” Reveal: Fake Doc, Joaquin’s Tummy or Tranny Prostitutes?
It came as no surprise to me when Casey Affleck at long last spilled the beans: that his tawdry expose of Joaquin Phoenix’s bad-boy decent into star-boy-debauchery was, in fact,…
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Read More: Mogul is De- and Re-Mobilized
I’ve worked with, written about, and been a fan of the work of Susan Mogul for quite awhile. A early practitioner of feminist video via her radical education at the…
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Read More: Documentary Dıspatch from TurkeyI have been tourıng Istanbul, wındıng down on wındıng roads from the jam-packed Vısıble Evıdence conference (on documentary). I can’t do justıce to the many strong panels I saw: testıment…