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Read More: Video Art(ists) of the YouTube Archive“The many types of video art have been made with a variety of intentions, ideas, working styles, and structures. Some address pure aesthetic concerns, where others prioritize content in less…
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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: The Provenance of Beauty
I had the distinct pleasure of seeing (riding) my friend Claudia Rankine’s play, The Provenance of Beauty, performed on a bus that left from a small Spanish Harlem church (with…
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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: The Stake and the WedgeThe female is immanent, the female is bone-deep, the female is instinct. With Lili’s eager complicity, The Professor drives a massive wedge between the masculine and the feminine within her.…
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Read More: A Productive Fake has a Stake: Unnaming in THE OWLSOver the past few days I’ve been teaching my recent writing about fake docs on YouTube to my Media Studies seniors, while thinking a lot about THE OWLS (and reading…
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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…