February 2012
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All The Rowboats →
I think this new Regina Spektor song is absolutely brilliant. Excerpt from the lyrics: First it’s lock up, then there’s lights out Masterpieces serving maximum sentences It’s their own fault for being timeless There’s a price to pay and a consequence (?) All the galleries and museums Here’s your ticket, welcome to the tombs They’re just public mausoleums The...
Feb 29th
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Banksy on Advertising
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most...
Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
“[It is not] a simple matter of communicating “reality” via the cinema. Ideology...”
– Dudley Andrew, Concepts in Film Theory (1984)
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Feb 27th
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Citizen VJs in Syria →
Citizen video journalist Rami al-Sayyed was killed today in Syria. He maintained this Youtube channel, similar to other Syrian VJs (like Danny Abdul Dayem) who have been risking their lives to share information about the assault with the outside world. The last video posted on Rami’s channel is of his own body. With reporters being banned from the country, these citizen journalists are our...
Feb 21st
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Feb 9th
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"There Are No Rules": On Errol Morris
Yesterday I went to a screening of documentarian Errol Morris’ debut film, Gates of Heaven, which was made in 1978. Errol’s films raise important question about the nature of reality and representation, with his documentaries blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction. He relies on many unusual cinematographic techniques that draw attention to the constructed nature of his...
Feb 9th
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Feb 7th
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LUMIERE FILM I had to make another Lumiere Brothers-type film for this semester’s time-based production course (I guess it’s the usual first exercise in filmmaking). I decided to do tell the story of an everyday activity this time, as opposed to my last Lumiere film:
Feb 2nd
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“For the most part, documentaries address and entertain educated middle and...”
– “What’s Wrong with the Liberal Documentary” by Jill Godmillow Peace Review; March 1999; 11, 1
Feb 1st