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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: Faujinsky[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dwA2dulwlQ&hl=en&fs=1&] “And then there is…the postmodernists, lets call them, who know that Comte’s postings are fake but like them anyway.” Joan Acocella I’ve been considering for awhile now that as…
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Read More: Fig Trees[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndsdXJWksp0&hl=en&fs=1&] I had the lucky opportunity to watch Fig Trees and then speak with John Greyson about this complicated, funny, intellectual and political film that somehow links documentary interviews of…
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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: On the “Susan Boyle Experience”
I think Virgina Heffernan is really smart, and look forward to her weekly NYT columns. However, I take some small exception to her recent thoughts on the “Susan Boyle Experience.”…
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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: 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: 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: 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…