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This was one of the best conferences I ever attended. The take home message for future conference organizers is hard to replicate: 1) carefully chosen speakers 2) given ample time (2 speakers in 1 and 1/2 hour sessions) and 3) beautifully choreographed two-day flow, where distinct ...
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Josh Brolin
Elizabeth Taylor
Victoria Kerszi kindly sent along to me her recent documentary, A Steady Grind , a portrait of her grandmother Eloyse, a fiery fighter keeping her family’s junkyard afloat, despite tax debt, ill health, and compounded grief from the loss of two sons and a spouse.
It seems the two of ...
Horror
The Eye
They appear everywhere: skinny legs, perfect couture, under-acted voices.
Tiny stop-motion figures haunt my cine-dreams and regular movie-going.
Take The Fantastic Mr. Fox :
Following in the over-produced, quite-expensive, corporate-backed footsteps of phony people-made craft ...
Comedy
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Be Kind, Rewind
Where the Wild Things Are
I begin with a video (where I say among other things that I’ve been working for two years on a project about teaching, writing about, and publishing/presenting in the digital humanities and this raises contradictions about vernacular, audience, duration, translation and more) all to be ...
Sci-Fi
Penelope Cruz
Ellen Page
I have been criticizing YouTube for a few years now. Easy enough to do given its perplexing gaps in capability—all the things it won’t let you do: find things, surround them with meaningful stuff and people—not to mention all the crap video. Could I re-purpose the site to succeed at functions ...
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Laura Wexler , the Chair of Women’s Studies at Yale and also an esteemed professor of American Studies and photo history, presented an amazing paper on Chinese photography this weekend at the ASA . She is also the beloved undergraduate teacher who turned me on to women’s studies, ...
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Laura Dern
Posted in activist media, documentary, femi-digi-practioner, feminist, media archive, Mommy's Marriage, motherhood, queer cinema, video art, web 2.0 Tagged: Dear Gabe
