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Thanks to Thirteen Forum for shooting, editing and posting this candid discussion with one of Brooklyn’s most influential filmmakers.

Colin Beckett moderates the discussion with the audience.

Spoiler alert… This is the revealing post-show discussion from the November 29th, 2009 screening of S&Man with the director JT Petty, actor Eric Marcisak, and journalist Jason Zinoman serving as a moderator. Thanks to Dan Byer and Brandon Tonner-Connolly from Get Ahead Films for shooting this and editing it together.

From 2006…. but worth another look.

Peggy Ahwesh

Beirut Outtakes (2007)  2007, 7:30 min, color, sound

“Fragments from movies found in an abandoned cinema in Beirut. Retrieved by Mr. Salloum. Assembled by Ms. Ahwesh.”

From UbuWeb.

Human Beings. 1-100

The first in a four part series “People In Order: 1. Age”, uniquely crafts the story of aging with remarkable humanity in just a few minutes. I love this piece so much it gives me a lump in my throat and a smile on my face every single time I come back to it. By Lenka Clayton and James Price.

Urban Anthropologists, Andy and Carolyn London interview some of New York City’s more overlooked citizens.

Video by Torsten Meyer on Unartig.

New artist discussion video with filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Mark Street!

From archival snips of an educational film on the weather to cine poems in full blossom, New York film “avant-gardeners” Mark Street and Lynne Sachs create their 3rd XY CHROMOSOME PROJECT. This program of 10 short films on both single and double screen gleans audio-visual crops from the dust of the filmmakers’ fertile and fallow imaginations. In this avalanche of visual ruminations on nature’s topsy-turvy shakeup of our lives, Street and Sachs ponder a city child’s tentative excavation of the urban forest, winter wheat, and the great American deluge of the 21st Century (so far).

Fifty People, One Question is a simple project with surprising results. We go to a place, ask fifty people the same question and film their responses.The project started in New Orleans, LA and received such a warm response that we decided to do it again in New York City. Now we’re traveling to more cities and asking new questions. Always just trying to capture a little slice of humanity. Whatever happens … happens.

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“[aura's social basis for it's present decay] rests on two circumstances, both linked to the increasing significance of the masses in contemporary life. Namely: the desire of the present-day masses to ‘get closer’ to things spatially and humanly, and their equally passionate concern for overcoming each thing’s uniqueness by assimilating it as a reproduction.”

From Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.