revolutionary cinema
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Read More: Milk ‘n Che: The Avant Docs
This is more of a shout out then I usually perform. Simply to say: hey guys, there are some great docs about these revolutionaries to keep in mind. They came…
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Read More: Learning from Revolutionary Film
To the Editors, New York Times, I am currently teaching a course, Media Praxis, on the histories and theories of revolutionary cinema. While I greatly appreciate Terrence Rafferty’s Sunday, December…
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Read More: Here’s Him & Him? & Her? (happy to meet you): Talking Blog-Montage“For better or worse, we can expect YouTube and online amateur video to become a common tool for the 25% of American women who have been sexually assaulted.” Dr. Strangelove,…
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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 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.
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Read More: The Resolution of MP:me
(After “The Resolution of Three,” by Dziga Vertov with Mikhail Kaufman and Elizaveta Svilova, April 10, 1923) The situation on the digital front, namely YouTube, must be considered inauspicious. As…