documentary
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Read More: Video Art: Does Access Matter?“The promise held by video, that it could create ‘personal media,’ that normal people could control the production of video imagery and bypass the tightly controlled corporate structure of commercial…
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Read More: AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer CinemaLast Friday night, I attended a screening of nearly twenty-year old AIDS activist videos (the scenes of my youth; the research topic of my juvenalia) which were part of the…
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Read More: Ulrike Ottinger: What’s Left to be SeenI had the great privilege of attending a Critical Symposium, sponsored by Boston University and my friend and colleague, Roy Grundmann, on the amazing Ulrike Ottinger last week. She was…
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Read More: District 9: Faking the FutureDistrict 9—a scary, literally-allegorical (what is that!), sci-fi blood-fest—is also told, sort of, through the structure of a fake doc. It’s also terrific. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlgtbEdqVsk&hl=en&fs=1&] Because the faked reality is a…
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Read More: Bad On Purpose: On the Corporate Faking of Hand-Made FilmsI’m provoked. Just saw Paper Heart and this charming pseudo-naive cynical/happy fake-rumination on love by comedienne Charlyne Li pushes this blog’s fixations on fake documentary’s current yummy banality to new…
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Read More: Dear IckaprickSo the internet/web 2.0 allows you and I to meet, talk, and learn together, creating new communions and opportunities for weirdness (YouTube shares but does not OWN this). Hi and…
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Read More: Who Does She Think She Is?I was sent a screener of the feature documentary, “Who Does She Think She Is? (Pamela Tanner Boll, 2009) a straightforward and powerful doc that gives voice to five diverse…
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Read More: Making THE OWLS
Earlier this summer I decided to produce Cheryl Dunye’s new feature film THE OWLS, an experimental thriller about four older-wiser-lesbians who accidentally kill a young lesbian and try to get…
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Read More: Millenium’s Experiments in DocumentaryTake a look at Millenium Film Journal’s special issue, No. 51, Experiments in Documentary, edited by Lucas Hildebrand. A strong introductory essay is followed by artist statements/interviews about making work…
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Read More: Documentaries Harbor DocumentsAttended Outfest’s Legacy Project’s screening/fundraiser for the newly restored print of Choosing Children (Debra Chasnoff and Kim Klausner, 1984). I chose children in 1998 (and later made a documentary about…