cinema of revolution
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Read More: HeroismI recently attended the festival screening of my friend, Ellen Spiro’s amazing documentary, “Body of War,” which she shot and directed with Phil Donahue (yes that Phil Donahue). It was…
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Read More: Slogan Nine
“The more we assert our own identities as historically marginalized groups, the more we expose the tyranny of a so-called center.” Pratibha Parmar [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNh4kdSsBoY&rel=1] YouTube serves the de-centering mandate of…
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Read More: Slogan Eight
“What is in question is not the expression of some lost origin or some uncontaminated essence in black film-language but the adoption of a critical voice that promotes consciousness of…
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Read More: Editing SCALE 2
July 16, 2007. It has been a really great first week. I have been editing with concentration and fervor helped and abetted by the Wexner’s master editor, Paul Hill. We’ve…
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Read More: Slogan Five“The cinema of revolution is at the same time one of destruction and construction: destruction of the image that neo-colonialization has created of itself and us, and construction of a…
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Read More: Slogan Four“Q: How do you explain the camera as a gun? A: Well, ideas are guns. A lot of people are dying from ideas and dying for ideas. A gun is…
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Read More: Slogan three
“I will give you my definition of art: art is ‘making.’” Jean Renoir [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSpKOHUdUx8&rel=1] YouTube creates a platform for non-professional, democratic media production. Open the floodgates, and it’s true, everyone…
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Read More: On Slogans1. “It will be the art of the direct cinema of a slogan. Of communication that is just as unobstructed and immediate as the communication of an idea through a…
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Read More: MPme: Variant of a Manifesta
(After “WE: Variant of a Manifesto,” Dziga Vertov, 1922) I call myself MP:me (Media Praxis : Alexandra Juhasz)—as opposed to “cinematographer,” one of a herd of machomen doing rather well…
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Read More: 10 Terms. 3 calls.Here are the central terms of Media Praxis and 3 related calls to action.