The program collects films that are asking the same questions: What was here before? And how can you show it if it’s not there anymore? When and how did absence turn into presence? Does it always do that? It also connects places in East and West, New York, Berlin and Warsaw. Shanghai and...
WHAT WAS HERE BEFORE? Arsenal shorts with Stefanie Schule Strathaus
Field notes and a test
I went out to shoot some B roll for the Love at First Sight Project. http://www.vimeo.com/11082724Monday’s sky yielded a brief moment of love in central park. Stationary shots seem to work but current tripod doesn’t lend itself to pans. For my Psychic/Psychiatric project with...
Filmmakers’ Cooperative Benefit 4/28 with Laurie Anderson and Tony Conrad
Our friends at the Filmmakers’ Cooperative are holding a great benefit concert with Laurie Anderson, Tony Conrad, Erik Friedlander, Alan Licht & Lee Ranaldo. It is happening at Santos Party House, Wednesday April 28 at 7pm. $40 tax deductible entrance. Make sure to come on out,...
Orphan Film Symposium Getting Underway
The Orphan Film Symposium marks its seventh biennial gathering of archivists, scholars, preservationists, curators, collectors, and media artists devoted to saving, studying, and screening neglected moving images. NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Department of Cinema Studies host Orphans 7 in...
Our own mythologies
We move to New York to “make it.” But what does this mean? What is it about New York that inspires people to believe this is the place where they can realize their ambitions? How do these ambitions, modeled into stories and mythologies, relate to the way we actually live right now? How are...
Silence
A critique we received from the Finnish students who came to visit was that our recent mythology pieces were too text driven—that we relied on text too heavily. Perhaps it was because our inspiration was Barthes’ text, but what would it be like to explore silence? What can we say without...
Exercises in Nonfiction
The following are two amusing activities for the UnionDocs Collaborative to consider. 1. THE TRUTH We’ve been so eager in locating and analyzing myths in our culture that we’ve lost all touch with reality. A point had been raised by one viewer during our MOMA Q&A: our...
This Year’s Feng Shui Index
“With this Tiger year’s heavenly stem being metal, gold is set to have a great run and we predict that it could break US$2,000/oz. In fact, commodities of all stripes will fair well including silver, copper, zinc and aluminum. Those regarded as ‘wood’ will also do very well: pulp and...