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Read More: Man, I love how you love you a manAt the pre-Berlin cast and crew screening of THE OWLS Friday night, I was talking with my friend, fellow filmmaker and Pitzer professor, Silas Howard, who has recently transitioned, and…
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Read More: Imagining We Care: “Supporting Our Troops” in Recent War Films
I recently watched Brothers (in a theater) and Taking Chance (at home). They tell opposing tales about Americans’ relationships to our troops—disavowal and send ’em to the dustbin versus hero-worshipping,…
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Read More: Berlin Bound!I am really happy to announce that our film, THE OWLS, will be premiering in Berlin‘s Panorama section: its home for foreign and cutting edge art films. I could imagine…
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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: Fantastic, Expensive, “People-Made” Corporate PuppetsThey appear everywhere: skinny legs, perfect couture, under-acted voices. Tiny stop-motion figures haunt my cine-dreams and regular movie-going. Take The Fantastic Mr. Fox: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v6-T52zLO0&hl=en_US&fs=1] Following in the over-produced, quite-expensive, corporate-backed…
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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,…
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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…