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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…
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Read More: No More Potlucksnomorepotlucks.org presents: no. 4 Juillet-August theme: “copie” The Increasingly Unproductive Fake Alexandra Juhasz Dump Gay Marriage Now Yasmin Nair Getting Messy and Complicated with Dana Inkster Dayna McLeod (Colonial) Archives…
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Read More: “Women of Vision” on snagfilms
This is a three-part series on feminist media history from the late 80s. There’s also a book!
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Read More: Yvonne Rainer on YouTube
Saw Yvonne Rainer perform at Redcat. Her second dance was Spiraling Down: “this new work draws inspiration from a variety of sources–newspaper photos, soccer moves, old movies, classic modern dance,…
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Read More: On Watching Bad VideoI’ve spent a long day at an undisclosed location watching a load of bad video. As with all things tedious, cheap, people-made and yet somehow also pretentious, the hours enjoy…
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Read More: Watermelon Woman: Release Our Print!
Although the film I produced, The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1995) was a festival and art house hit, we never saw any money, and our master rots at DuArt. We…
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Read More: LongForm/YouTube/OxyMoron
Thanks to Chuck at the Chutry Experiment for alerting me to the fact that the docs on snagfilms are now, magically, on YouTube. You see, beyond the many feature docs…
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Read More: Hildebrand/Juhasz on Joanie 4 JackieI attended some of the “Media Studies in Southern California” conference sponsored last weekend by the Cultural Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University. I was most taken by my friend…
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Read More: Attending to the 6th Anniversary of the War in IraqMarch 19 marks the 6th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. As one small gesture against the ongoing war, I announce the launch of the website for…