documentary
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Read More: Documentary TravelsMy Netflix queue has recently deluged me with a slew of migratory films that track from fiction, to documentary, to stage, and back again: Grey Gardens, Trumbo, Every Little Step.…
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Read More: Berlinale: Films Beget FilmsJust returned from 2010 Berlinale where The Owls premiered, rocked German lesbian’s L-Word soaked version of dyke-America, and sold a bunch of territories, too (thanks to The Collaborative! Note to…
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Read More: Queer You(th) Tube Talk on YouTube on YouTube
Unfortunately, I can not make the Digital Media and Learning Conference occurring at UCSD February 18-20 because I’ll be in Berlin for the premier of THE OWLS. I have organized…
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Read More: “The Camera is the Problem”: Boring Paranormal Camcorder CinemaA YouTube hand-held jump-cut DIY sensibility masks cine-gimmicks as old as Melies and ever so much more tired given their age: doors that open and close on their own (creepy!),…
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Read More: A Steady GrindVictoria Kerszi kindly sent along to me her recent documentary, A Steady Grind, a portrait of her grandmother Eloyse, a fiery fighter keeping her family’s junkyard afloat, despite tax debt,…
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Read More: I make nouveau art video on YouTube: Mommy’s Marriage
I have been criticizing YouTube for a few years now. Easy enough to do given its perplexing gaps in capability—all the things it won’t let you do: find things, surround…
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Read More: Laura Wexler, Chinese Photo, and Forced ForgettingLaura Wexler, the Chair of Women’s Studies at Yale and also an esteemed professor of American Studies and photo history, presented an amazing paper on Chinese photography this weekend at…
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Read More: Dear Gabe: My Old Video Art
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Read More: Loving the Archive; Controlling the Archive
The archivist brings work to visibility by seeing it, knowing it in her way, and connecting it to other video and viewers that will frame and hold it: giving context,…