praxis
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Read More: “Naming Prarie” on snagfilms
Naming Prarie From 2002, this is about the Jewish babynaming ceremony of my lesbian friends, and the community that embraces them.
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Read More: “Dear Gabe” on snagfilms
Dear Gabe I made this documentary in 2003 about the feminist lives and choices of my six closet friends from college.
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Read More: On Iran Vέritέ
I’m a fan of Digital Poetics. I support his (and many bloggers) committed support and relay of people-made videos coming from Iran in the face of heightening censorship and oppression.…
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Read More: FatelessnessI just saw this 2005 film thanks to Netflix. I had recently read the book thanks to my friend Sarah. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aifZLtzLdU&hl=en&fs=1&] It’s hard for me to think about the work…
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Read More: Dueling BanjosI get this eerie, bored feeling that internet scholars play but don’t listen. Myself included. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8&hl=en&fs=1&] Where boosters see roses: See Howard Rheingold, Vernacular Video in Culture and Education. Snarks…
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Read More: The Safety Dance
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] My blog reader (Vienna) has been over-stuffed with videos of culture jams. The song above is thanks to Open Culture. “Last Thursday, in London’s Trafalgar Square, a big crowd…
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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: Art and Social Change: The BOOK
Dear Will Bradley and Charles Esche, I chanced upon a strange booth at the book fair at the College Art Association Meetings a few weeks ago in LA. Two youngish…