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Read More: Online Premier “Please Hold,” featuring writers from “AIDS and the Distribution of Crises”Please join editors and writers from the collection, AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (Duke 2020), as we screen together and then discuss my new experimental documentary, Please Hold (70…
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Read More: Facebook, Peace, and DocumentaryLast week, I used my own changing Facebook experiences during the gruesome Israel/Gaza conflict to think about the often unattended-to subtleties of Internet echo chambers in light of family, identity,…
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Read More: Next Week: SCALE
I actually started this blog, about exactly a year ago, on the behest of Yvonne Welbon (who’s all about social networking and indie media), the producer of my documentary, “SCALE:…
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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: Chicago SCALE RoundtableTwo weeks ago, we held a summit on the organizing and distribution possibilities of my documentary, SCALE, generously sponsored by a Chicago feminist media and arts organization and attended by…
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Read More: #1 SCALE screeningOn Thursday, October 4, we had our first work-in-progress screening of SCALE fro a friendly audience at the Claremont Colleges, where I teach. Antonia made it, as did representatives of…
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Read More: Editing SCALE 3August 8, 2007 Back home after a month in Columbus OH defined, in the end, by the concerns addressed in my earlier posts: what it means to be an artist-on-my-own…
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Read More: Slogan Seven“By empowering ordinary people to speak as experts, they question a basic assumption of dominant ideology, that only those already in power, those who have a stake in defending the…
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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 Six“The real crime of representation is representation itself.” David MacDougall, ethnographic filmmaker [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1SPB3eYLdg&rel=1] Media presentation on YouTube must be attentive to the ethics and power inherent in all acts of…