Make sure to check out Documentary Fortnight, MoMA’s annual two-week showcase of recent nonfiction film and media starting February 16 and continuing to the 28. This year’s program includes an international selection of 20 feature films; independent films from China; a look at the legacy...
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Documentary Fortnight Kicks off 2/16 at the MoMA
Cineaste Magazine: City Scherzos
In the 20s and 30s, at the strange intersection of Impressionist music, constructivist politics, and the broadcast networking of telecommunications, film and radio, City Symphonies like Man With a Movie Camera, Rien Que Les Heures, and Berlin: City Symphony became something of a genre. In the age...
Brooklyn Rail writes “UnionDocs Brings Auteurs Together.”
The idea for the program sprouted from the possibilities, and problems, of documentary today. “It’s very clear that anyone can create and present the way that they think the world is,” said Jesse Shapins, Co-Mentor for the Collaborative, “and people will believe it.” The group tries to rub up against that belief, asking questions about truth rather than swallowing it whole.
My Day 2-16-10
Some might consider this an ode to Robbie’s “My Week” series of shorts. I prefer to think of it as blatant theft. A documentation of my day, shot on the Nikon CoolPix S560 and edited on Final Cut. http://www.vimeo.com/9514497
stepping forward with myth
Today, on the metro heading towards UnionDocs, I saw a woman reading Mythologies. It must be a sign. Last night, Hyatt (my collab partner) and I met with Kara. I had missed a few meetings because I was driving across the country with a friend. I got back this morning (3:30 AM PST), with 33...
Rosa Von Praunheim and the Limits of Provocation
Until its last ten minutes, there is nothing in It is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, but the Situation in Which He Lives resembling a political program. Daniel, the protagonist of Rosa Von Praunheim’s ironic soap opera, sits on bed facing a group of men, whose number and state of...
