tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28132199853365017162024-03-13T00:41:09.702-04:00Gravity Was Everywhere Back Thenmaking a movie in the yard...and beyond!Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comBlogger723125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-72809251745773305062023-06-07T12:27:00.000-04:002023-06-07T12:27:32.344-04:002021’s Ten Best Films: 2 & 1 (tie)<p>[Guess I never hit publish on this one...!]</p><p><br /></p><p>Oddly, I think these last few films encapsulate the year of 2021 nicely as they center on gruesome and gorgeous moments in ways that are painful, memorable, visually epic and weighted with uncertainty. </p><p>All three also prod at the form a bit too, pushing cinema into a slightly new shape to hold the stories in need of being told and challenging visual language. These films also drew me in so deeply with bold, complex characters and quick yet heavy jabs of story. </p><p>The best films change my perception of time and space and what it means to be human today and each of these did that in strikingly different ways. </p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All About My Sisters</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">dir. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Qiong Wang</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stretching the span between documentary and home movie, this film wades through the personal emotional turmoil China’s one-child policy had on the filmmaker’s family. One of the director’s sisters, Jin, returns home as a teen after being raised by a rural extension of the family; the complicated circumstances of her departure are revealed throughout the film’s nearly three hour runtime. The volatile Jin has shattering but fleeting outbursts, one can feel her radiate anger and perplexity through her sister’s camera. Images allow for glimpses into different perspectives. Each scene is like a soft but permanent impression, the camera dropped into some mundane everyday moment or interaction that happens to be burdened with heaps of generational trauma. The camera also watches and participates in these moments without condescending empathy or pausing too long to become exploitative. Masterful. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQP3eODPzEUXn-uPoW__6Ex6GKWZ8W4xan_mp1oXKDPji60m1v12ASsXnteHmeTvN-UWai2TInJ_CPPVw6Gf2pq9cBOPJbbWiVET2OBp6u_Fzix0PqEEIiSnrVqeolJFPucgYgN_SJp47iTUoXcvCXi5huY7LuX5R-2ExkzG1jL1CwQ2TD4LyOB_n/s1600/938851-1-1600x900-c-default.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQP3eODPzEUXn-uPoW__6Ex6GKWZ8W4xan_mp1oXKDPji60m1v12ASsXnteHmeTvN-UWai2TInJ_CPPVw6Gf2pq9cBOPJbbWiVET2OBp6u_Fzix0PqEEIiSnrVqeolJFPucgYgN_SJp47iTUoXcvCXi5huY7LuX5R-2ExkzG1jL1CwQ2TD4LyOB_n/w400-h225/938851-1-1600x900-c-default.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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(tie) </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beginning </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">dir. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dea Kulumbegashvili</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re All Going to the World’s Fair</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jane Schoenbrun</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beginning</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">dir. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dea Kulumbegashvili</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TW: Sexaul assault. The only two words that can describe this film are beautiful and brutal. When someone sets fire to Yana’s husband’s church, her contained life starts to smolder as a mysterious outsider enters her sphere. Shocking, graphic scenes of sexual assault made me have to pause the film (an upside of virtual viewing, perhaps) and take a break as the evil portrayed onscreen was so deeply disturbing that it just felt wrong not to act. The film’s rawness was balanced by the camera and stunning direction, allowing images and characters to cohabit a single idea, a synergy of composition and acting. In an uncomfortably long shot, Yana lays on the ground outside with the sun casting shadows and a light wind vibrating the whole atmosphere, like a camera whose flickering light moves the moments forward looking to capture the intangibility of being. The spiritual realm, the natural world, and the filmic world swayed together in slow drifts as societal and material dynamics quietly roared in confusion below their surfaces.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdYpfNVKWoBBRF2ctVHJRnt8_6PKbxlfheV58alHYOfzyxylgG_YfrVC729QAUPDWdet04T2RACOcANYH6JjxYg8XjN6st26mNNmFKVBH1P2XlzJzEUD9afAneDB0ebecrB6juYMWSWFjopifydBiTd0XhkSotG6_UsY6Gs_kVvNXs_eVtDWyaJQ4/s2956/MV5BMmE4NmZlMDYtOTBjYS00ODRmLTkzZTYtYWZhYzRhYTliZGViXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTU5Mzk0NjE@._V1_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; 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font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re All Going to the World’s Fair </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">dir. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jane Schoenbrun</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I want to go to the World’s Fair, I want to go to the World’s Fair, I Want to go to the World’s Fair,” goes the incantation of the the title fictional creepypasta (think internet horror urban legend like Slenderman or that terrifying face I don’t want to google to find the name of because I want to sleep tonight). Casey (Anna Cobb), a teen broadcasting her life online from her bedroom (complete with glow-in-the-dark stars stuck to the ceiling and a dream catcher thumbtacked to the wall), immerses herself in this internet rabbit hole, fully convinced of the power of this unknown, spiritual, digital force. The most unsettling part of the film is the uncertainty. An uncertainty about Casey’s grasp of reality. An uncertainty about who Casey is, who she wants to be, and how that is being shaped by entirely new spaces of existence. An uncertainty about the internet’s voices and intentions. It’s a coming of age story with a dose of body, psychological, and digi-horror that expresses the awkward realities of youth with purpose, conviction and heart told through a lovingly handmade voice. A sublime film that kept me on edge with its unsettling, scratchy simplicity and understated— yet absolutely powerful— lead performance. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWkMZEv-FoPtUvfl5MMncHuEKHMwfEE-sI0BaSU6JBo_4LlDFzq6SJ3Fc2cp9idkK0-ykStK-xxmFAuZWU9l0-xz92y0gd-4qXVA6lCMm7rAZqoNh7Vl0SDuQN8ogKgWs3NoXbaXADdV74NMY0uyvh2IMPKrHA84-91dVaCn88Lq04B-atw4v6p-LO/s740/thumb_BA58C89A-5282-4F3E-885A-1DA12D4EB519.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="740" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWkMZEv-FoPtUvfl5MMncHuEKHMwfEE-sI0BaSU6JBo_4LlDFzq6SJ3Fc2cp9idkK0-ykStK-xxmFAuZWU9l0-xz92y0gd-4qXVA6lCMm7rAZqoNh7Vl0SDuQN8ogKgWs3NoXbaXADdV74NMY0uyvh2IMPKrHA84-91dVaCn88Lq04B-atw4v6p-LO/w400-h205/thumb_BA58C89A-5282-4F3E-885A-1DA12D4EB519.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRcIUYpriFjFfR_xK115AeOglVVwprrdRF4b3ZYICUacW4o3fsHFB60i2kMUpX1SkCiwLec1eSrBaeSwdvyVM1TMFWsQuwNU6y6hzCAKYBqNbCfdZJ7nJJKNUSimBZd3yn8hxWHBFJRNDbwaEcKgLWTNG0q1QuGgcG9kEyC-KtkyvKaXeXzRJ9ySl9/s300/images-1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRcIUYpriFjFfR_xK115AeOglVVwprrdRF4b3ZYICUacW4o3fsHFB60i2kMUpX1SkCiwLec1eSrBaeSwdvyVM1TMFWsQuwNU6y6hzCAKYBqNbCfdZJ7nJJKNUSimBZd3yn8hxWHBFJRNDbwaEcKgLWTNG0q1QuGgcG9kEyC-KtkyvKaXeXzRJ9ySl9/w400-h224/images-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-84278621673788979112022-06-01T14:18:00.001-04:002022-06-01T14:18:34.823-04:002021’s Ten Best Films: 4 & 3<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Things I've been thinking about:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">-</span>how digital spaces are changing the formation of identity</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">-the ways that the digital self is being translated visually in documentaries (Does anyone know the first film to graphically represent a text conversation onscreen...?)</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">-how digital & VR spaces (waves at Meta) are going to change visual storytelling audiences (I spoke at a Feminist Tech Conference at some point during the pandemic about this one)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">...by the way I moved the blog back to its OG formatting because the template I was using was messed up. There are some glitches still but a little bit better! </span></span></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Users</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> (</b><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">dir. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Natalia Almada</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A machine hums and oscillates, gently rocking a baby, tricking the newborn into thinking they haven’t left the calming womb, soothing them into their parallel digital existence from birth. Even though there is anxiety around technology, climate change, parenting— every anxiety facing humankind— humming throughout </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Users</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the film doesn’t result in tension; it ends up feeling like a lullaby. The slow, luscious images and measured voice over, enhanced through state of the art sound recording, high definition cameras & incomparable drone shots, show a positive interaction between artists and technology; there is a future full of thinking, expression and wonder that can be extended through technology not in spite of it. Frontiers can be cold and dangerous but maybe they're also full of possibility. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaskRSW6EAYN-PSDhN-jopCHPaOwnaIMVc3mLQcAg7ErB3aZIjmYWaZY_MaDJe4k5vJbVeVV9UIxDd5vkruIpm7dkSDMHbyKOXi9DRdXplyyKa-8rRl3O7ZYpth37PuEO2d78kbmVhGMiWlEL1digbv4tMXTgmowDcvzKIuCCYppd3I3Ej2PYXqgRt/s309/download-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="309" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaskRSW6EAYN-PSDhN-jopCHPaOwnaIMVc3mLQcAg7ErB3aZIjmYWaZY_MaDJe4k5vJbVeVV9UIxDd5vkruIpm7dkSDMHbyKOXi9DRdXplyyKa-8rRl3O7ZYpth37PuEO2d78kbmVhGMiWlEL1digbv4tMXTgmowDcvzKIuCCYppd3I3Ej2PYXqgRt/w400-h211/download-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ascension</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> (</b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">dir. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jessica Kingdon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A camera views a scene below, men move in tangled masses searching for a job in a frantic marketplace. A misty white cloud waves past a river of swimmers, seen from a camera perched at a distance— something seems wrong. Throughout </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ascension, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the camera sits and observes scenes of daily Chinese life with unfettered access, looking upon them with a sense of surveillance that feigns objectivity, giving way to some sort of concern or judgment, at times even emanating from within the scenes themselves. The composition of each frame is intriguing and succinct while editing doesn’t linger too long. The film shows a restraint that presents scenes of China bluntly, coolly and with an access that at times seems impossible. The film’s very ending is where the clarity lies, reminding that there is more to Chinese culture than purely goods, services and social climbing, the film itself a testament to that fact. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBa9NpQ4_vt74EQhYuKvGOt4I5UUlKo9rF4Lj2fOm1tizgjus-DjJNgsGE8ViIlf2msQl5wKjE2TLL76yyVLENetgbtKZssgYKJQQiDyjP3nYUwAiBkST9BhevieoNSR8k8mgo6UVsxlPGcp910nojsavAuHrX0R-1F2MjefRgeu8ax4I5Q0NBnsZi/s1920/MV5BMTRkNTY1YjYtNDJjZS00ZWU5LThlOTEtZGQ4ZWQzNzI0NzAyXkEyXkFqcGdeQWxiaWFtb250._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-81683883807046380412022-04-24T14:05:00.000-04:002022-04-24T14:05:19.219-04:002021’s Ten Best Films: 6 & 5<p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;">People aren't muses. They're producers. Or artists in their own right. Or introverts who prefer to exist on the fringes of the spotlight. Or maybe they see themselves as megaphones? Or maybe they don't know how to be short, with crooked teeth, and reject hierarchy while also demanding respect? Obviously I am navel-gazing here (I mean: blog...I have slowly recognized that writing is my way to simultaneously hide and yell: it is where I feel most comfortable. <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cat-powers-moon-pix-9781501377938/" target="_blank">I wrote a book. It is coming out in 2022. </a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bergman Island </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(dir. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mia Hansen-Løve</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s slightly hard to write about this multi-layered, elliptical, meta love story that takes place among the remnants and ghosts of auteur Ingmar Bergman’s beloved </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fårö Island</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The film largely focuses on a series of relationships between people. First, there is Chris (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vicky Krieps</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) a filmmaker, wife and mother, and Tony (Tim Roth) Chris’ partner who is also a filmmaker but heavy with fame. The second couple are fictional characters in Chris’ latest screenplay/production, characters trying to come to terms with their star-crossed history. Chris is balancing her roles as mother, muse and maker, looking for her creative vision while reconciling with the other ways in which her life is pulled apart; can one write their own role in life or is much of it written by another? </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78_x6W1gQrr3dMyOv_8hIlt2IWjWmxbzNZBIk1TqUlH4sAvSFyKiGEtNSTlXdLYDTy7tNawC2mE8uSS32VsftD1Xr_KlpBwMg1JNzEGAqHNRUdefgmXw1Y3iH4teUpCLTaRiEn0jNYwq-cifkLc3R60nhe4j0nEsrmeKrRYrhwSmI-3aGYgnlL-fw/s680/Bergman_Island-227354636-large.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="680" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78_x6W1gQrr3dMyOv_8hIlt2IWjWmxbzNZBIk1TqUlH4sAvSFyKiGEtNSTlXdLYDTy7tNawC2mE8uSS32VsftD1Xr_KlpBwMg1JNzEGAqHNRUdefgmXw1Y3iH4teUpCLTaRiEn0jNYwq-cifkLc3R60nhe4j0nEsrmeKrRYrhwSmI-3aGYgnlL-fw/w400-h218/Bergman_Island-227354636-large.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">El Planeta </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(dir. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amalia Ulman</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A designer zebra suit and expensive tastes are the only things left that resemble wealth in the life of Leo (played by director Amalia Ulman), a young fashion school student whose parents’ divorce took away a lifestyle her and her mother had become accustomed to. Part class comment, part coming of age comedy, the universe of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">El Planeta</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> feels both barren and flush: an understated black & white where sometimes the scenes transition like a school video project from the 90s, and sound moves to create a sense of intimate space or a jarring interjection. Leo looks for love, money and recognition while her mother revels in the common grift; their relationship is one of cutting love. The film feels like what happens when the signifiers are at odds with the sign which is an even bigger conflict in a time when image is often a stand-in for self. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNXB5IByHH-PgfFi_fgXpzMI2fqH6P6iu4D6jfdG-QDRK3NFx0w57LSX_Xc2S3llIviHsE7Iq6BVuIDNtwS7tCrCPhI0MvHEdk4nFQTNLTUWAFLagwAjtun9_HrceIs1DcDK6I6acg_j3t2SaWp0CvX-PvsZctNgnBR2zo-Br4xgrVpS6qhJegnvr/s1280/tumblr_e8b08468399663bb5e70d032c49ff1d5_d3f881c3_1280.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1280" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNXB5IByHH-PgfFi_fgXpzMI2fqH6P6iu4D6jfdG-QDRK3NFx0w57LSX_Xc2S3llIviHsE7Iq6BVuIDNtwS7tCrCPhI0MvHEdk4nFQTNLTUWAFLagwAjtun9_HrceIs1DcDK6I6acg_j3t2SaWp0CvX-PvsZctNgnBR2zo-Br4xgrVpS6qhJegnvr/w400-h210/tumblr_e8b08468399663bb5e70d032c49ff1d5_d3f881c3_1280.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><p></p>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-62252565584831286132022-03-02T17:05:00.004-05:002022-04-24T14:00:48.137-04:002021’s Ten Best Films: 8 & 7<p>Freelancing feels like I'm playing a video-game and there is a slight delay between the controller and the action onscreen. Like I'm pushing, pushing, pushing and, eventually, at some indeterminate point, I get paid or get more work or receive vindication that my choices toward instability were the right ones. I don't know how millennials will age in the gig economy. How will I ever retire? Will a new pandemic rip away my life as I grow old and become less valuable to society by the day? How will I purchase teeth? I have too many ideas to execute and a ticking clock nags-- quickened by the fear of early onset dementia that I watched slowly shrink my father's brain for sixteen years. I like my work life but is it built to last? Am I built to last? </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Titane </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(dir. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia Ducournau</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At one point while watching <i>Titane</i> I started laughing a deep, guttural laugh that only slapstick can bring. But, in this case, it was a gory, nasty, bone-crunching Tarantino-esque style slapstick that made me disgusted with myself. Titane is a gripping body horror train wreck where ideas slowly collide and bounce off of one another but never really cohere into a deep understanding or meaning. But I think that’s what makes it so good: life is not always a clean interpretable event— even one’s sense of self can be a fluid, moving, organic, crowd-sourced thing. The film’s convoluted detachment captures all of the free floating anxiety in every combustible engine that is the human heart and mind, reminding just how tenuous, confusing and scary all relationships truly are. The most terrifying parts of the film, though, were also the least gruesome, like how one quick selfie can make you the property of another, how a person is one viral media news story away from belonging to the public at large. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkQDvjNQLebv4MCHL1RJCmptb4_IokWja0eeCYGBYC5XEmC2xTsk2VQnsjH-tFHGqGWx1qFavitWlEovl-krs7VGfo87ztK7c0DuqUWdA0AguIcG5k8ZwAkBk89VbCW2XL8iRNx0JQoYoANA2wkOkludJ5_XiURoLWMFX1d9Nu2XwLU2VBX0Dr4loF=s2170" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1043" data-original-width="2170" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkQDvjNQLebv4MCHL1RJCmptb4_IokWja0eeCYGBYC5XEmC2xTsk2VQnsjH-tFHGqGWx1qFavitWlEovl-krs7VGfo87ztK7c0DuqUWdA0AguIcG5k8ZwAkBk89VbCW2XL8iRNx0JQoYoANA2wkOkludJ5_XiURoLWMFX1d9Nu2XwLU2VBX0Dr4loF=w400-h193" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Test Pattern </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(dir. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shatara Michelle Ford</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TW: Sexual assault. Renesha is roofied at a local bar while out with a friend. Her boyfriend seeks justice. The two travel throughout Austin, Texas trying to find a rape kit, and understanding. The protagonists chase a sense of elusive normalcy paralleled by their initial love-story, providing simultaneous narratives that show the before and after scenarios of a life-altering event. The two storylines also develop the characters with a sense of familiarity, inviting an audience into their lives like new found friends. Even though the film plays in genres (a thriller, a tale of justice, a love story), it avoids the possible pitfalls of cliches instead becoming a story about people living in a society that isn’t made for the complexity of human emotion and experience. On top of the story, the film’s craft shows a pointed balance as the audio exists in the service of the narrative, not the other way around, creating a super tense atmosphere and heightening all senses. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicq5XhPiNt95U5G_SQ6VnR_7yJVRYyNkTfclC1j0nnx7QB6f_VEM7jwyOtGd6iKr_CyOb4oOo9k6_fBd44PmFr6_2d9ps3Xz9lu0G9Dju8okFlYEa0KEybTWWxP-HqgsHEbpDCoN52TNaqBF50Y3zkKGQ0H28RsO7egl6O4JSdf8LeKOC3-KFHrDHU=s1200" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicq5XhPiNt95U5G_SQ6VnR_7yJVRYyNkTfclC1j0nnx7QB6f_VEM7jwyOtGd6iKr_CyOb4oOo9k6_fBd44PmFr6_2d9ps3Xz9lu0G9Dju8okFlYEa0KEybTWWxP-HqgsHEbpDCoN52TNaqBF50Y3zkKGQ0H28RsO7egl6O4JSdf8LeKOC3-KFHrDHU=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3rqOEP20xDgy06mN2k0pR3BIcdnNYOq9yPMUfTqHFKaCd_0foXq2b3Ip9uZli5jRKAZub7GK227VVVWMoWgHHTeBhztLjt3ScFxSdwrLFzDNdOL_WAZemV3UK2lxmTOci9KckyPT6UwGHIPaX2H5BamrI681Ih9Owi-2LcJD0skRiFKhKNMc_fA9y=s1280" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="1280" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3rqOEP20xDgy06mN2k0pR3BIcdnNYOq9yPMUfTqHFKaCd_0foXq2b3Ip9uZli5jRKAZub7GK227VVVWMoWgHHTeBhztLjt3ScFxSdwrLFzDNdOL_WAZemV3UK2lxmTOci9KckyPT6UwGHIPaX2H5BamrI681Ih9Owi-2LcJD0skRiFKhKNMc_fA9y=w400-h216" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-53264015040201121222022-02-28T14:31:00.007-05:002022-04-24T13:57:59.904-04:002021’s Ten Best Films: 10 & 9<p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-5826e637-7fff-b440-a87e-22636a9e2386"><h2 style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 22pt; margin-top: 2pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021’s Ten Best Films </span></h2><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, my list is late. So late that it isn't published elsewhere! 😃 </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Because of this, I'm going to do something different. A slow countdown and side notes to catch you all up on the life of me. <strike>Sorry.</strike> You're welcome. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So...the pandemic of 2020 rolled into 2021 and 2022 like a shitty houseguest who continues to linger and criticize your eating habits. My high anxiety made the virus bring out the worst in me, especially while living in the Midwest where the low-level of mask wearing & local anti-mask protests never ceased to shock. Whenever someone at the grocery store would sneeze, maskless I felt like they were saying: "it's okay if old people die" or "essential workers aren't people." I cry a lot while buying vegetables. </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Pink Cloud</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (dir. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Iuli Gerbase</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conceived on the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic, the too soon-iness of the film might have made it slip a little from sight as audiences process their collective trauma. A man and woman who only sort of know one another end up isolated together in a city in Brazil, sheltering in place as a mysterious, fatal cloud descends upon the globe. The story expertly leaps through time, presenting moments and milestones while leaving out whole years to perfectly capture the infinite bleed of bubbled time and space. It also shows movements that felt all too familiar: the hours lost in an alternate virtual reality, the no-contact delivery system that gives people their needs, the juggling of self and others while confined indoors. The colors are soothing, the pink cloud lurking: tense, artful, psychological horror. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK3bvOFIYcONWGTY_aKPd_CDqidLodgYk8Wg5erZtoHk-GV76uLs6_57Ta-hp-uLef-yenVKOTqMUfCsjUK_-DlOo4nP8XbrGj0g5s57C9tefmFsAkhw-GV0vSJC6jjoGSL1nuUEhmjkBxZhC_pKONtjd6Dfr9R1lndRYcKkz7dhfoENPkJ4eqc69m=s1400" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1400" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK3bvOFIYcONWGTY_aKPd_CDqidLodgYk8Wg5erZtoHk-GV76uLs6_57Ta-hp-uLef-yenVKOTqMUfCsjUK_-DlOo4nP8XbrGj0g5s57C9tefmFsAkhw-GV0vSJC6jjoGSL1nuUEhmjkBxZhC_pKONtjd6Dfr9R1lndRYcKkz7dhfoENPkJ4eqc69m=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zola </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dir. Janicza Bravo</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Janicza Bravo continues to reflect the creepy, darkly comedic, artifice-riddled real world with an exaggerated smirk. The fact that this film is based off of a viral tweet (one that added its own flourishes to its narrative) provides another layer to this already twisted filmic universe. Bravo and playwright/screenwriter Jeremy O. Harris transform the quasi-true Twitter tale about a night of stripping gone wrong into a buoyantly gritty, genre defiant immersion, lacing it with some drops of societal commentary and a fair share of (very unappealing male) nudity. Bravo’s scenes are crafted to perfection— weaving together the luminosity and grain of 16mm, forming complex characters whose accessories speak volumes, making soundscapes of the familiar but pushing them into the fantastical, editing perfectly to the punchline. Bravo eases a watcher into her luscious, poisoned singular vision. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaezmDiA_P0m7f82d1NHtZP_hIZ4MPDVR-Et2N6qxZS9_OsUMahUoNxaseFJkeUo9O0Yhi2Qi5r-H3waFRfM8Okx4JNfEeG9Qd9Hy7_IX06NNR_2jlaeHEFZ6Bj2WYKtmJAjA1IsRvx-wcDrsQXvl1VZ263ITueP9Vv36dA2ZDvqWX9CcRZq8VsaQJ=s1200" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="1200" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaezmDiA_P0m7f82d1NHtZP_hIZ4MPDVR-Et2N6qxZS9_OsUMahUoNxaseFJkeUo9O0Yhi2Qi5r-H3waFRfM8Okx4JNfEeG9Qd9Hy7_IX06NNR_2jlaeHEFZ6Bj2WYKtmJAjA1IsRvx-wcDrsQXvl1VZ263ITueP9Vv36dA2ZDvqWX9CcRZq8VsaQJ=w640-h342" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYhdUT9QFQHltGw1uIa3DiNueimTSTELU3brWn_aPT9wggIBprZNVVKiLQ1RMjAQbg3xfhSbvqkGLyXpZe_x8dt-knzaFzv6uSypJ4rxv0g3lKB6F7eGDkeVUlLUvJEEycDoXSdZ3uigq04IPGJ-Lcb8frL4MknhHAAe_Hqd5VCVKi6gJSMX9eV2TW=s2400" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="2400" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYhdUT9QFQHltGw1uIa3DiNueimTSTELU3brWn_aPT9wggIBprZNVVKiLQ1RMjAQbg3xfhSbvqkGLyXpZe_x8dt-knzaFzv6uSypJ4rxv0g3lKB6F7eGDkeVUlLUvJEEycDoXSdZ3uigq04IPGJ-Lcb8frL4MknhHAAe_Hqd5VCVKi6gJSMX9eV2TW=w640-h360" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><br /><br /></span>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-22020475489558131822021-03-01T14:54:00.005-05:002022-04-24T13:52:05.382-04:002020 Top Ten Directed/Co-Directed by Women<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mk4HQ361MNo/YD1F8z1aBkI/AAAAAAAAHAU/LYeaOIsw8DocA3gNQs7bDLjVb8dR8Xy5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/nomad%2B2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="2000" height="264" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mk4HQ361MNo/YD1F8z1aBkI/AAAAAAAAHAU/LYeaOIsw8DocA3gNQs7bDLjVb8dR8Xy5gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h264/nomad%2B2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, 2020 happened! And so did my annual list, which I totally forgot about until </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Chloé Zhao </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">won the Golden Globe for best director last night (a ceremony I didn't watch and whose red carpet felt like a series of people's crappy prom photos in various hotels, hallways, and poolsides). </span><a href="https://filmmakermagazine.com/110756-2020s-ten-best-films-directed-or-co-directed-by-women/" style="font-family: inherit;">So, here is my list via Filmmaker Magazine! </a></p><div> <br /><p></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x61cCzsQQ0Q/YD1Ek294MVI/AAAAAAAAG_A/74bMd9p7_AoCBN7guKr-TWZGXSugvhnRwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1440/save-yourselves%2B2.jpg" style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1440" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x61cCzsQQ0Q/YD1Ek294MVI/AAAAAAAAG_A/74bMd9p7_AoCBN7guKr-TWZGXSugvhnRwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h300/save-yourselves%2B2.jpg" width="640" /></a> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O372VtUHfk4/X821pIDWwEI/AAAAAAAAG30/8fouuVVOGYEbCdwlCLMZppBAnSE3Dh-CQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2570/Untitled-1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1223" data-original-width="2570" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O372VtUHfk4/X821pIDWwEI/AAAAAAAAG30/8fouuVVOGYEbCdwlCLMZppBAnSE3Dh-CQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Untitled-1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>So, two years ago I saw these two images online. One, a glassy-eyed poodle staring with a concerning deadness against a frenzy of color and two, a tiger who either has a rear jutting out onto a separate canvas, looking over its shoulder with the audaciousness of a hungry model...or an image of a tiger with a canvas of abstract orange forms abutting it. I know nothing about the artist but, the two images haunted me so when this event popped up on instagram the recognition was exciting! I learned that the artist is <a href="http://davidhumphreynyc.com/" target="_blank">David Humphrey</a>, an American neo surrealist and art critic who came of artistic age in the 70s postmodernist movement. This event is a launch of the first collection of monographs of the artist's work spanning his 40-year career. There is something uncanny yet funny in his paintings that speaks deeply to me, like a serious question-- asked with a smirk-- about what one believes and what one believes to be real. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">↔</span></div><div><br /></div><div>A Discussion of Milford Graves Full Mantis With Director Jake Meginsky</div><div>Kingsessing Library + Ars Nova Workshop / <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-discussion-of-milford-graves-full-mantis-with-director-jake-meginsky-tickets-128016592073?fbclid=IwAR0t5tvbDWE0jwjZdMg1W88sH-oYsTu3YL9m1kUKhf_OETzmEqHnw4aTEPo" target="_blank">zoom discussion</a></div><div>December 10, 2020 / 6pm ET / free/registration recommended</div><div><br /></div><div>Mondays With Milford</div><div>Institute of Contemporary At, University of Pennsylvania + Ars Nova Worskshop / <a href="https://icaphila.org/posts/mondays-with-milford/" target="_blank">online screenings</a></div><div>Sept. 28- January 18, 2020, biweekly / 6pm ET / free</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XIltDuMtxbA/X821x1K6DFI/AAAAAAAAG34/N2dn0WElXUAZUvhcO_bunTLJ9DlNyfv0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1818/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-06%2Bat%2B10.52.54%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1818" height="321" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XIltDuMtxbA/X821x1K6DFI/AAAAAAAAG34/N2dn0WElXUAZUvhcO_bunTLJ9DlNyfv0QCLcBGAsYHQ/w689-h321/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-06%2Bat%2B10.52.54%2BPM.png" width="689" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.milfordgraves.com/" target="_blank">Milford Graves</a> is a drummer, visual artist, herbalist, acupuncturist, martial artist, professor and many, many other things all poured into the form of a man. The poetic documentary portrait Full Mantis captures the intense aura of Graves and his body of work, a fully focused film that bursts through to some other cosmic plane of understanding/being. Unlike many nonfiction films about artists that tend to falter through either lack of vision or inability to translate their subjects, this film is a stellar embodiment of the man-- really wonder how the director got to this place of expression? This discussion will be with director Jake Maginsky through the Kingsessing Library of Philadelphia. Full Mantis should be available through Kanopy, a streaming service that many libraries provide to patrons free of charge-- ask your local library! </div><div><br /></div><div> <a href="https://icaphila.org/exhibitions/milford-graves-a-mind-body-deal/" target="_blank">A Mind Body Deal</a> (an art exhibit by Graves) is currently on display at the ICA in Philly and, in conjunction with the exhibit, there has been an ongoing virtual screening series. Every other Monday a selection of films from the Milford Graves archives, or some other contextualizing media, are screened online remaining available each week until the next showing. This week, December 7, features <a href="https://icaphila.org/events/mondays-with-milford-encounters-in-japan/" target="_blank">Encounters in Japan</a>, a series of films centering on Graves' collaborations with performance artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Tanaka" target="_blank">Min Tanaka</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2OFtN7q-5mw/X821_TanCuI/AAAAAAAAG4A/9wBF0k3ufDkKhDFgaVbYAPkPk3AfNto3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Milford-Graves-Full-Mantis-1600x900-c-default.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="372" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2OFtN7q-5mw/X821_TanCuI/AAAAAAAAG4A/9wBF0k3ufDkKhDFgaVbYAPkPk3AfNto3ACLcBGAsYHQ/w661-h372/Milford-Graves-Full-Mantis-1600x900-c-default.jpg" width="661" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">↔</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Feminist International: How to Change Everything </div><div>International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs + Verso Books/ <a href="https://criticaltheoryconsortium.org/events/feminist-international-how-to-change-everything/?fbclid=IwAR2glUWXxHQcpWUQ4S37uyzMI3HuHUYTJTmCKbI9HX9JZ1ed5mAyMIpSWC0">zoom lecture</a></div><div>December 11, 2020 / 12pm PST / free w/registration</div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">This discussion brings together <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler" target="_blank">Judith Butler</a> (UC Berkeley), <a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/susana-draper" target="_blank">Susana Draper </a>(Princeton), <a href="https://uba.academia.edu/Ver%C3%B3nicaGago" target="_blank">Verónica Gago </a>(UNSAM; Ni Una Menos; UBA), <a href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/core-bios/ruth-wilson-gilmore" target="_blank">Ruth Wilson Gilmore</a> (CUNY Graduate Center), and moderator <a href="https://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/people/natalia-brizuela/" target="_blank">Natalia Brizuela</a> (UC Berkeley) to discuss Gago's book, Feminist International. The book "draws on the author’s rich experience with radical movements to enter into ongoing debates in feminist and Marxist theory: from <a href="https://libcom.org/library/domestic-workers%E2%80%99-rights-politics-social-reproduction-new-models-labor-organizing#:~:text=The%20work%20of%20social%20reproduction,association%20with%20women's%20unpaid%20housework.&text=African%20American%20women%20have%20a,occupation%20of%20paid%20household%20labor." target="_blank">social reproduction and domestic work</a> to the intertwining of financial and gender violence, as well as controversies surrounding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extractivism" target="_blank">neo-extractivist model of development</a>, the possibilities and limits of left populism, and the ever-vexed nexus of gender-race-class." Basically, Gago wants to, as the subtitle suggests, change everything and this group of thinkers is the perfect ensemble to rethink and upend the very notions of power & gender. </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nBZKKxOGWyc/X822KVLBmFI/AAAAAAAAG4I/hlyU3I_e1Bc4lMrisCAZXkSYdkvQc9hxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/9781788739689-0ff74e8bceae8ad6eb25081c62395ed0.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="454" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nBZKKxOGWyc/X822KVLBmFI/AAAAAAAAG4I/hlyU3I_e1Bc4lMrisCAZXkSYdkvQc9hxwCLcBGAsYHQ/w682-h454/9781788739689-0ff74e8bceae8ad6eb25081c62395ed0.jpg" width="682" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">↔</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Alegreya Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"></p></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-16130233180728552262020-11-29T22:14:00.059-05:002020-11-29T22:24:19.757-05:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of November 29th<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white;"> Top Picks for Art Online Week of November 29th</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perspectives: Arthur Gamedze and Another Time Ensemble</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center / <a href="https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/asher_gamedze/">livestream</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dec. 2, 2020 / 12pm ET / free</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Another Time Ensemble features a lineup of improvisers from the city of Cario, where this rooftop performance will be taking place, a city of histories threaded together to form a past of mythic proportions. The multitude of roots buried deep within the city inspires this performance as compositions from Gamedze, and possibly poetry or other hints from other times, will weave together in a live-streamed experience of now. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ri7ZW254jt4/X8Rk8oNd7yI/AAAAAAAAG2A/LKnv90IOf_Ur-LGN7aDCh7dtc9HhB4XZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s562/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-29%2Bat%2B8.02.01%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="562" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ri7ZW254jt4/X8Rk8oNd7yI/AAAAAAAAG2A/LKnv90IOf_Ur-LGN7aDCh7dtc9HhB4XZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-29%2Bat%2B8.02.01%2BPM.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Art and Empathy: Community Care Through Art </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brooklyn Musuem /</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/art_and_empathy_december_2020#:~:text=Art%20and%20Empathy%3A%20Community%20Care%20Through%20Art&text=We'll%20rest%20and%20reflect,provided%20by%20email%20upon%20confirmation." style="font-family: inherit;">online talk + creation via zoom</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dec. 3, 2020 / 2-3:30 ET / free w/registration</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xBY3UKUylWA/X8RlMi6apLI/AAAAAAAAG2I/skP4A3H75V8ei8ksk83lAENcxFf0wo-XgCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/2020_December_Art_Empathy_LaToya_Ruby_Frazier_CUR.2011.63.1_artist_photograph_1500w_600_477.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="600" height="322" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xBY3UKUylWA/X8RlMi6apLI/AAAAAAAAG2I/skP4A3H75V8ei8ksk83lAENcxFf0wo-XgCLcBGAsYHQ/w405-h322/2020_December_Art_Empathy_LaToya_Ruby_Frazier_CUR.2011.63.1_artist_photograph_1500w_600_477.jpg" width="405" /></a></div>Yes! An art therapy session for all! I personally broke out some scissors and crayons recently out of a need for escape (and possibly control?); there is definitely value in taking your mind to another place these days....This event brings together <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">art therapist Sarah Pousty, museum educator <a href="https://brooklynmuseum.tumblr.com/dalilascruggs">Dalila Scruggs</a>, and social work intern Lula Zeray to provide a moment of self-care, reflection and coming together. A piece of art will be explored in depth followed by the opportunity to make art of one's own. This event sounds like the one big creative, collective exhale the world could use right now. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alex Ross: Wagner & Hollywood</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Hammer Museum + the UCLA Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology / </span><a href="https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2020/alex-ross-wagner-hollywood">online talk</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dec. 3, 2020 / 5pm PST / free w/RSVP</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="529" height="452" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uoCEekcnjKQ/X8RaTc__WYI/AAAAAAAAG1g/lwSGLX_hSTMva49BbsTYV9z1R3rYuPLkgCLcBGAsYHQ/w682-h452/9780374285937.jpg" width="682" /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Author and longtime New Yorker Music Critic, Alex Ross, has a new book out Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. A 2020 New York Times Notable Book, it focuses on Richard Wagner, the highly influential 19th Century German composer who shaped so many cultural voices: painters, writers, movements-- and even film. Wagner's "leitmotif" model in his operas (think Star Wars: a recurring theme for each character or place or theme) went on to become the basis for the first film scores. Unfortunately, Wagner's legacy is also associated with another type of film, that of Nazi propaganda thanks to Hitler's love of Wagner's intense, forceful expressions..unsure where this talk will go but hopefully it will go here:</span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="550" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30QzJKCUekQ" width="662" youtube-src-id="30QzJKCUekQ"></iframe></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-14924926811075664452020-11-23T21:11:00.004-05:002020-11-23T21:12:51.746-05:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of November 22nd<p>I need to skip this week! I don't have COVID...but I do have strep throat! Which is terrifying because I vigilantly wear a mask and wash my hands and use anti-bacterial everything: Please Stay Home. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zz6BeCdqA8k/X7xrQaCgoPI/AAAAAAAAG0c/djIe99rf5K4_4hHLhSSEwq9PwzB7uxzIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1616/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-23%2Bat%2B8.08.46%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1616" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zz6BeCdqA8k/X7xrQaCgoPI/AAAAAAAAG0c/djIe99rf5K4_4hHLhSSEwq9PwzB7uxzIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-23%2Bat%2B8.08.46%2BPM.png" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-17187367602424688592020-11-16T22:04:00.000-05:002020-11-16T22:04:15.971-05:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of November 15th<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Top Picks for Art Online Week of November 15th</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Talk: Nick Cave and Friends</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago / <a href="https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2020/11/Talk-Nick-Cave-And-Friends?fbclid=IwAR2EtGLhRfGG6B7aOK20biJvBDgF9eMcJGJ0lrtYpGMuV6kmNX9jzWwttT0" target="_blank">online zoom talk</a> + <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mcachicago/" target="_blank">fb live</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">November 17, 2020 / 12pm CT / free w/registration </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SZyWA5w-4YI/X7M3s3xFRpI/AAAAAAAAGzE/GvIJd2vIsDEShfmxrkSSQfP8OqUZiF7xgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/2018_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SZyWA5w-4YI/X7M3s3xFRpI/AAAAAAAAGzE/GvIJd2vIsDEShfmxrkSSQfP8OqUZiF7xgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/2018_1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Has anyone seen <a href="https://art21.org/artist/nick-cave/" target="_blank">Nick Cave</a>'s current exhibit down at <a href="https://themomentary.org/calendar/nick-cave-until/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA48j9BRC-ARIsAMQu3WSLqP02r4Bh7Pci2cHJZI8LFNfrsJP5tcsspTRv2pOMRyOlL3hA_NgaArocEALw_wcB" target="_blank">Crystal Bridges in Arkansas</a>? I've been weighing the COVID risk weekly as I deeply want to see this exhibit but am trying to be hella responsible ...sigh...Either way, I always find Cave's work to be more than moving, from his <a href="https://vimeo.com/299309802" target="_blank">video installations,</a> to dance performances, to his intricately conceived textile machinations-- he can do it all-- each work moving outward into an ecstatic, emotional vibration. I love Cave's work even more since learning that he went to high school in the city I currently live in in Missouri- go Kewpies? Yes. I said <a href="https://hickmankewpies.org/" target="_blank">Kewpies</a>. This talk will feature Cave, <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; letter-spacing: -0.2775px;">dancer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damita_Jo_Freeman" target="_blank">Damita Jo Freeman,</a> musician <a href="https://www.nonahendryx.com/" target="_blank">Nona Hendryx</a>, and publisher <a href="https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/linda-johnson-rice-1958/" target="_blank">Linda Johnson Rice</a>-- each equally as prolific and awe-inspiring in their own right!-- as they talk about Cave's inspiration and key cultural turning points "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; letter-spacing: -0.2775px;">from </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f0f0f; letter-spacing: -0.2775px;">Soul Train</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; letter-spacing: -0.2775px;"> to </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f0f0f; letter-spacing: -0.2775px;">Ebony." </em></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">↔</div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Black Music in America: 16mm screening </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fresh Produce w/Greg Hamilton / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/280600880052120?active_tab=about" target="_blank">fb live</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">November 18, 2020 / 9-9:45pm CT / free</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i5x7mWHPbSs/X7M315HfckI/AAAAAAAAGzI/kMGk7287UvQQ_CWcFNKEjbDaw0f3_RGhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/125953910_10222487556313240_1011933520940474122_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="501" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i5x7mWHPbSs/X7M315HfckI/AAAAAAAAGzI/kMGk7287UvQQ_CWcFNKEjbDaw0f3_RGhwCLcBGAsYHQ/w669-h501/125953910_10222487556313240_1011933520940474122_o.jpg" width="669" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">Deep from the basement of Greg Hamilton, another 16mm screening will run its reels for all to enjoy! This time, the film will be the rare 25 minute documentary Black Music in America featuring jazz and blues performances from such greats as Leadbelly, Mahalia Jackson and Sly & the Family Stone (and many others!). This particular film is soon to leave Greg's unique library so catch it while you can! We're all lucky that this cinephile is giving all of us who don't have a projector on hand a chance to share in the wonder and grainy beauty of cinema together. xox</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">↔</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><b>True Crime and the Case for Abolition Documentary with Pooja Rangan and Brett Story</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts & Sciences / <a href="http://cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu/events/2020/November/OnlineColloquiumPoojaRanganandBrettStory?fbclid=IwAR3Qqg_S0MC5cGwbRmjXa1BQNc6lLB0WQ9IKy0COQ3gpY-jXSyrFv3u8kRs" target="_blank">online colloquium via zoom </a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">November 18, 2020 / 12-1 pm ET / free </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RrLhTx6ji2A/X7M3_NjQCjI/AAAAAAAAGzQ/ZWUPGYt3GGE5oUoWoGjPV3oIUag4S8I7gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Pooja-Rangan-Brett-Story.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1237" data-original-width="2048" height="253" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RrLhTx6ji2A/X7M3_NjQCjI/AAAAAAAAGzQ/ZWUPGYt3GGE5oUoWoGjPV3oIUag4S8I7gCLcBGAsYHQ/w419-h253/Pooja-Rangan-Brett-Story.jpg" width="419" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The wildly popular True Crime documentary is a genre that I find problematic...but naturally tend to enjoy due to its inherent narrative thrill. As an audience we lust after the misfortune of others, seeking justice, resolution, some sense of shared normalcy or ethics while also hoping to be wildly entertained...and it's only been on the rise thanks to streaming platforms that seem to see it as easy/cheap content. This lecture will discuss the relationship between true crime and documentary, looking for a future in which these films can be more than lurid storytelling as the event notes: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><span face="Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">We discuss the collaboration between true crime and documentary, the socio-legal construction of criminality, and the false promises of reform, to argue for an abolition documentary that relinquishes, once and for all, its investments in guilt, </span><span face="Verdana, Tahoma, "DejaVu Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">innocence, and the category of crime." </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Side note: I've seen</span><a href="https://filmmakermagazine.com/106983-sundance-notebook-cultural-critics-of-color-art-world-horror-a-necessary-short-and-more/#.X7Mgm9NKiRs" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"> Pooja Rangan speak before</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and she was phenomenal and Brett Story's most recent film, The Hottest August, made my </span><a href="https://filmmakermagazine.com/108786-2019s-ten-best-films-directed-by-women/#.X7Mgx9NKiRs" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">2020 Top Ten List</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">: don't miss this! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">↔</div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>One Day Geology Bootcamp</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rutgers- NASA ENIGMA /<a href="https://enigma.rutgers.edu/seminars/" target="_blank"> virtual course</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">November 19, 2020 / 10am-2:15pm / free w/registration</span></div><div><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nov 19th Geology Bootcamp Rutgers</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUObZBxZhF4/X7M4SSQOGCI/AAAAAAAAGzc/7yeJJWKJe04MFg1hjkq3scx80yXIQASHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1178/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-16%2Bat%2B8.40.54%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="1178" height="223" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TUObZBxZhF4/X7M4SSQOGCI/AAAAAAAAGzc/7yeJJWKJe04MFg1hjkq3scx80yXIQASHgCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h223/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-11-16%2Bat%2B8.40.54%2BPM.png" width="375" /></a></div>The co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere is the focus of this online course brought to you by Rutgers University & NASA's joint ENIGMA (Evolution of Nanomachines In Geospheres and Microbial Ancestors) team aimed at promoting and researching the field of astrobiology. Some topics that will be discussed in this event include the development of the Earth's crust, how rocks are dated, and the origin of minerals & their cycles through geologic time. It will also explain to me what "Isotopic Fractionation Work" is. Even though the event is being hosted by space bio-geo-logists (or something?), it is geared at an undergraduate level so don't be intimidated.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;">↔</span></span></span></div><div><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>In Performance: Leila Josefowicz + George Condo. Internal Riot</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hauser & Wirth / <a href="https://www.hauserwirth.com/events/30447-performance-leila-josefowicz" target="_blank">online music performance</a></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">November 20, 2020 / 2pm EST / free w/registration</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p5xtgHfspiQ/X7M4iUbUzwI/AAAAAAAAGzk/LasWL8HUCuoKKW8Z2J6tp_y0NZaFcgW-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Untitled-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="2048" height="383" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p5xtgHfspiQ/X7M4iUbUzwI/AAAAAAAAGzk/LasWL8HUCuoKKW8Z2J6tp_y0NZaFcgW-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w680-h383/Untitled-1.jpg" width="680" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Condo" target="_blank">George Condo'</a>s paintings freak me out. As does the fact that he dated an Olsen twin. Regardless, his paintings evoke something bulbous and evil-- like geometrically <a href="https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-weeping-woman-picasso-painting-pablo-picasso.html" target="_blank">possessed Picassos</a>-- that feel at home with equally as irksome <a href="http://www.carrolldunham.net/" target="_blank">Carroll Dunham </a>or maybe corporeal <a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/84182" target="_blank">Philip Guston</a>'s? However, the unease about them is somewhat fitting to the times I guess. His current show, Internal Riot, is on display at Hauser & Wirth and, in conjunction with the exhibit, violinist <a href="https://www.leilajosefowicz.com/" target="_blank">Leila Josefowicz</a> will perform a new piece by composer <a href="https://www.opus3artists.com/artists/matthias-pintscher/#audio" target="_blank">Matthias Pintscher.</a> I just listened to a piece by Pintscher titled "Whirling tissue of light," a piano solo with an eerie air that seems all too fitting to the garish paintings and the isolated viewing of art during pandemic times. I like this multidisciplinary approach and live-experience share, especially from a space that so often feels shrouded in exclusion: more of this please art world!</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;">↔</span></span></span></div><div><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Picturing Pandemics: From the Distant Past to the Recent Present</b></span></span></div><div><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Princeton University, Princeton Art Museum / <a href="https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/calendar/2020-11/panel-discussion-picturing-pandemics-distant-past-recent-present" target="_blank">webinar</a> via zoom</span></span></div><div><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">November 20, 2020 / 2pm ET / free w/registration</span></span></div><div><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="_8Pl3R" face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uEATxcvEaQQ/X7M4uadMoYI/AAAAAAAAGzo/2Hx093ZP_OIf2KQxuOZYcvA0DSiltweiACLcBGAsYHQ/s1584/Untitled-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1584" height="493" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uEATxcvEaQQ/X7M4uadMoYI/AAAAAAAAGzo/2Hx093ZP_OIf2KQxuOZYcvA0DSiltweiACLcBGAsYHQ/w680-h493/Untitled-2.jpg" width="680" /></a></div><br /><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">How will this current pandemic manifest in visual art? Will it be a digital hellscape of zooms? Or maybe someone out there is going in the opposite direction, some feral sculptor turning sticks into COVID molecules or drawing with forest fire ash, outside in the free, safe breaths of nature? Naturally, pandemics throughout the ages found their way into the symbolic world of art, some renderings of which are on display in a Princeton Art Museum exhibit titled </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/picturing-pandemics" target="_blank">Images of Illness</a>. From the bubonic plague to the AIDS crisis, the images brought together serve as representations of life, death, emotion and history each with a differing perspective and media.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.45px;"> </span><a href="https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/about/staff-directory/234" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 97, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.45px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-bottom: 1px; transition: all 0.25s ease-out 0s;">Bryan Just</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.45px;">, Curator and Lecturer in the Art of the Ancient Americas, </span><a href="https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/about/staff-directory/224" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 97, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.45px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-bottom: 1px; transition: all 0.25s ease-out 0s;">Laura Giles</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.45px;">Curator of Prints and Drawings, </span><a href="https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/about/staff-directory/85361" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 97, 0); box-sizing: inherit; color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.45px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-bottom: 1px; transition: all 0.25s ease-out 0s;">Veronica White</a> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.45px;">Curator of Academic Programs, and graduate student in Molecular Biology </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.45px;">Robbie LeDesma will discuss the ancient to contemporary ways artists visualize the effects of the seen and unseen worlds of collective disease. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.45px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0w6V2u6Kl8s/X7M40EES9cI/AAAAAAAAGzs/wuwJfoPQSrgAPfFDlcdqdlXxehGr4OYFACLcBGAsYHQ/s720/PUAM_MunchSickroomNew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="720" height="499" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0w6V2u6Kl8s/X7M40EES9cI/AAAAAAAAGzs/wuwJfoPQSrgAPfFDlcdqdlXxehGr4OYFACLcBGAsYHQ/w688-h499/PUAM_MunchSickroomNew.jpg" width="688" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.45px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>↔</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span>Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-52618422144504052942020-11-08T22:42:00.002-05:002020-11-08T22:42:23.919-05:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of November 8th<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Top Picks for Art Online Week of November 8th</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white;">Virtual Insights: New Approaches to American Art </b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">American Folk Art Museum/<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-insights-new-approaches-to-american-art-tickets-124363746313?fbclid=IwAR2A_KIOZLqvIc5zrbUVW3CeWCgDFdcDnSKu2lOAZEjukoJ6F_xYHcpGGMU"> Zoom conversation & Q+A</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">November 10, 2020 / 6-7:30pm / free w/registration (donation suggested)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OTzVkqMbj8A/X6i20Kdf4bI/AAAAAAAAGyU/t67M8inrB4cUIHCFhgWOFH3z3ellclCUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1996.22.211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1323" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OTzVkqMbj8A/X6i20Kdf4bI/AAAAAAAAGyU/t67M8inrB4cUIHCFhgWOFH3z3ellclCUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/1996.22.211.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">This event poses the question: What does it mean to be defined as "American" within museums today? Curators will explore their work and the ways in which they look into the past to recontextualize, retell, reimagine the relationship between the many facets of social, politial and artistic histories that they draw upon. Panelists include curator Sylvia Yount who oversees</span><span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.370063px;"> the department of historical African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American art, from the colonial period to the early-twentieth century at MoMA, Layla Bermeo c</span><span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.370063px;">urator of Paintings, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Kimberli Grant the </span><span style="color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.370063px;">McKinnon Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA. </span><span style="color: #262626;">This talk is in conjunction with the current exhibit on view at the American Folk Art Museum in New York titled </span><a href="https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/american-perspectives/" style="color: black;" target="_blank">American Perspectives</a>. </div><div style="background-color: white;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4bVTDn-oUNA/X6iytcFnHYI/AAAAAAAAGxY/ZftAYjrLcj4IvT1tya4HEHXo4yT70FFQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_114182433_112517377617_1_original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1080" height="524" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4bVTDn-oUNA/X6iytcFnHYI/AAAAAAAAGxY/ZftAYjrLcj4IvT1tya4HEHXo4yT70FFQwCLcBGAsYHQ/w1048-h524/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_114182433_112517377617_1_original.jpg" width="1048" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">↔</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white;">Specific Objects: A Donald Judd Symposium, Part 1</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">Museum of Modern Art/<a href="https://moma.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QuIKobP3RCaa98wcPLSimQ" target="_blank">Online Lecture/Symposium</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">November 12, 2020 / 6:30pm ET / free with registration</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0muLmkxk8T8/X6iziNXjl-I/AAAAAAAAGyA/TGhNPIiBB8g5wEnVtMr58VPssIsggzSFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/cri_000000292474.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="2000" height="456" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0muLmkxk8T8/X6iziNXjl-I/AAAAAAAAGyA/TGhNPIiBB8g5wEnVtMr58VPssIsggzSFwCLcBGAsYHQ/w677-h456/cri_000000292474.jpg" width="677" /></a></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">Donald Judd is one of those sculptors whose work you see in photos and kind of shrug off. But, seeing his work in person is a whole other experience. His geometric blocks, plays of color and intersecting lines become ominous, luminous forms that represent a mastery of negative space. I don't really know much about his background (in fact, I just this minute learned that he is from Missouri!), or history of his work, but I do know that his minimalist, unmistakable compositions overpower any room that encounters them. This Symposium is part of the exhibit Judd currently on view at MoMA in NYC. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">↔</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white;">Tumultuous Absence: The 26th Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium </b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">Rutgers Univeristy Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives/<a href="https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bqqdSXAlztXUZmt" target="_blank">Online Symposium </a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #262626;">November 12 + 13 / 10am-8pm ET <a href="https://sites.rutgers.edu/njbas/wp-content/uploads/sites/555/2020/10/NJBAS2020_program_FINAL_B.pdf">(see schedule for sessions)</a> / </span><span style="color: #262626;">free w/registration</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #262626;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kbcxho_ukbQ/X6izK31pT9I/AAAAAAAAGxs/JUop3AmN9ikhVvZhPE0kgzmZIHc2Qt3pgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/New-art-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="857" data-original-width="1280" height="461" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kbcxho_ukbQ/X6izK31pT9I/AAAAAAAAGxs/JUop3AmN9ikhVvZhPE0kgzmZIHc2Qt3pgCLcBGAsYHQ/w689-h461/New-art-11.jpg" width="689" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #262626;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">I have a distinct memory of trvaeling to a basement-like room in the bowels of the Rutgers University Library to stare at a book of myth that literally had the seeds from a fruit embedded in its pages, marveling at the white glove handling of the rare and beautiful piece. Years later, a friend of mine I met at Rutgers worked for the Rare Book Room at the Strand, a quiet, secluded, ornate space of musty treasures, inclusing Yoko Ono's Grapefruit at the time. I love art books and the intense craft and delicate care that goes into their construction. This annual conference looks into the creativity and practice of the art book with talks, workshops and presentations. Two artists involved in the second half of this year's online version of the event (the earlier half took place last week) include the pulpy rough hewn pages of artist <a href="https://aimeelee.net/artists-books/" target="_blank">Aimee Lee</a> and the layered wonders of <a href="https://flyingfishpress.com/">Julie Chen</a>. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xjOicdiZ93k/X6iz_eaxzcI/AAAAAAAAGyI/-ItKdJ-wJlskDlojE2-sufMamsRY6aRjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/Artist-bks08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="975" data-original-width="1280" height="533" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xjOicdiZ93k/X6iz_eaxzcI/AAAAAAAAGyI/-ItKdJ-wJlskDlojE2-sufMamsRY6aRjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w699-h533/Artist-bks08.jpg" width="699" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white;">Domitor 2020 Online Conference</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">Domitor/<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ypzJ-gU1ROK0US5rYrHteg">Zoom conference</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;">November 17-20, 2020 / see schedule for times/ free w/registration</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xyF2bbfGl8g/X6izSrFRm8I/AAAAAAAAGx0/AtXNZBDEN2kkC7IVOX_LUtYgk2sNx7RywCLcBGAsYHQ/s1400/home_banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1400" height="306" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xyF2bbfGl8g/X6izSrFRm8I/AAAAAAAAGx0/AtXNZBDEN2kkC7IVOX_LUtYgk2sNx7RywCLcBGAsYHQ/w704-h306/home_banner.jpg" width="704" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span>Domitor was the name considered by the </span>Lumière brothers, the pioneers of cinema, as a nomiker for their grand invention (eventually, obviously, settling on“Cinématographe"). Today, Domitor is <span>an international association for early cinema, roughly the period from 1890 to 1915. "</span><span style="color: #1e1e1e;">With its interest in the </span><em style="color: #1e1e1e;">longue durée</em><span style="color: #1e1e1e;"> and in placing the cinema in a broader intermedial context, the field of early cinema studies has strong affinities with the study of early popular visual culture, media archaeology, and histories of 'pre-' or 'proto-' cinematic media from chronophotography to the magic lantern and shadow plays," the conception of the moving image repsonsible for today's visually saturated image world. </span>The organization's annual conference takes place in Paris, France but this year, it will be <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/808434146663421/" target="_blank">held online</a> for all to see! Wednesday Nov. 18th seems partiularly appealing to me with discussions on "Cameras, Projectors & Trick Photography"and "Useful Animation in Early Cinema." The presentations are currently available online, live discussions will take place on the 17-20th. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><div style="color: black; text-align: center;"><span>↔</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span>Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></span></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-84645413432472479902020-11-01T23:27:00.002-05:002020-11-01T23:30:45.517-05:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of November 1st<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strike>Top Picks for Art Online Week of November 1st</strike></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-htjZDcskjXU/X5-LRbLjFxI/AAAAAAAAGwc/nqRHNbVlKmYc8t9U7ZiyVk4vEHGBwL2rwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Untitled-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1339" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-htjZDcskjXU/X5-LRbLjFxI/AAAAAAAAGwc/nqRHNbVlKmYc8t9U7ZiyVk4vEHGBwL2rwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Untitled-1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><h1 style="text-align: center;"><br /></h1>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-759509394244623992020-10-25T18:01:00.002-04:002020-10-25T21:52:25.248-04:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of October 25th <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Top Picks for Art Online Week of October 25th</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Home Truths: Films About Housing Rights, Displacement, And The Meaning of Home</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anthology Film Archives /<a href="http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/52767"> online film series</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">ends October 31, 2020 / streaming / free-$10</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bTCfFrBMdWQ/X5Tohfjv60I/AAAAAAAAGvY/cqhjo5-SluwtwthOR8VDP0xxJ4C7EUaaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1108/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-24%2Bat%2B8.58.05%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1108" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bTCfFrBMdWQ/X5Tohfjv60I/AAAAAAAAGvY/cqhjo5-SluwtwthOR8VDP0xxJ4C7EUaaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-24%2Bat%2B8.58.05%2BPM.png" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Inspired by the recent COVID-19 induced housing crisis, this series "<span>highlights a variety of films past and present that have dramatized the plight of those who wage a daily battle for safe and secure housing, that have unveiled the structural and economic forces that render that struggle so difficult, and that have chronicled the efforts of activists to make change." The lineup features a huge array of styles and filmmakers, including two from <a href="http://www.nickbroomfield.com/" target="_blank">Nick Broomfield</a>, </span></span><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02/22/the-right-to-speak/" target="_blank">Sidney Sokhona's</a> <span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit;">Nationalité: Immigré (1975) </span>and master of non-brevity, <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7210/the-art-of-documentary-no-1-frederick-wiseman" target="_blank">Frederick Wiseman</a> with his 1997, 195 minute opus Public Housing. Streaming for free via Vimeo, thanks to Lux, The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000, Patrick Keiller) is one not to miss. The film takes the documentary scaffold (interviews, archival footage, B-roll) and layers a sense of fiction through</span><span> an unidentified narrator (Tilda Swinton!) recording their covert project to explore the British housing predicament. The film moves through many neighborhoods and issues, a journey that manages to make one feel as if they are one with the curious speaker, observing habitats & cultures while quietly living among them. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> </span>↔</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Electric Lit Virtual Salon: Magical Feminism w/Elissa Washuta + Marie-Helene Bertino</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Electric Lit / <a href="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/acqg3qqk/register?fbclid=IwAR1EshmxnqnGxJcWZd_Y1w9LGoxQmbVN8UJt408952TVl0aadO-krZPkevQ" target="_blank">online editorial discussion via crowdcast</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">October 26, 2020 / 6pm ET / $10</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iN0wekLlTwo/X5TopnTIc5I/AAAAAAAAGvc/mCqKaTuMwjA889iqhd4JdTZ2n5Dn0-NGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/event-cover-3445.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="800" height="357" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iN0wekLlTwo/X5TopnTIc5I/AAAAAAAAGvc/mCqKaTuMwjA889iqhd4JdTZ2n5Dn0-NGgCLcBGAsYHQ/w680-h357/event-cover-3445.png" width="680" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Magic. I'm not sure what this has in store but I do tend to trust the Executive Director of Electric Lit Halimah Marcus who will be leading this discussion about magic's role in fiction literature as it pertains to subverting expectations, processing trauma and more. Elissa Washuta, member of the <span face="Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f;">Cowlitz Indian Tribe, a nonfiction writer, an NEA fellow & Creative Capital Creative grantee and Marie-Helene Bertino, author of </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2f2f2f;">Parakeet</span><span face="Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f;"> (which, FYI, is on my to-read list!), and an O Henry & Pushcart Prize winner, will discuss "</span><span face="Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2f2f2f;">how magic works in practice and as a rhetorical device in fiction." Personally, I'm intrigued by this movement away from the term "magical realism" and into a different realm, one that, instead, seems to identify and uphold the realness in magic. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Trailermania</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Greg Hamilton / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/377043787012562/">facebook live screening</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">October 27, 2020/ 9:30pm CT / free</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Deep from the basement of a house in Portland, Oregon, Greg Hamilton leads you on a tour of vintage horror, sci-fi and other strange & unusual 16mm film trailers. Greg is a cineaste, filmmaker (whose short film <a href="https://vimeo.com/442522164" target="_blank">Thou Shall Not Tailgate</a> introduced me to the wonders of Rev. Linville, a Pacific Northwest wacko with a heart of both diamonds & coal), a writer and so much more bringing you into his home to help you remember the smell of celluloid, the heat of the projector, and the communal audience experience of film lovers-- however remote we may be. As Greg points out on the FB invite, "<span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Part entertainment, part cinema education, TRAILERMANIA is a must for movie fans and is full of rarities and old favorites." So pop your popcorn, turn out the lights and be bathed in the oddities and beauty of film trailers glowing from Greg's screen through your own. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cwFZATMZgdE/X5To-TqcemI/AAAAAAAAGvs/_WiP1JK1BYsD4xA--rKYIFZEhpu5ZaSbQCLcBGAsYHQ/s796/121170558_10222242636270392_5739806829416612375_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="796" height="490" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cwFZATMZgdE/X5To-TqcemI/AAAAAAAAGvs/_WiP1JK1BYsD4xA--rKYIFZEhpu5ZaSbQCLcBGAsYHQ/w670-h490/121170558_10222242636270392_5739806829416612375_n.jpg" width="670" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Unorthodocs.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Wexner Center for the Arts / <a href="https://wexarts.org/series/unorthodocs?gclid=CjwKCAjwoc_8BRAcEiwAzJevtR0bEnKhHaooPw9JDAmcwJCUFCY69Ovy_C1KegTSNiNgLstYLto0_BoCTmYQAvD_BwE">online film festival </a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">October 25- 29, 2020 / streaming, consult schedule (some geoblocking) / sliding scale, donation suggested</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x0Tt9zgdC5Y/X5TpEU5tBfI/AAAAAAAAGv0/AGFGiHYTppUFj9lisUutgipBmZKJVm-zgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2516/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-24%2Bat%2B8.55.32%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="2516" height="202" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x0Tt9zgdC5Y/X5TpEU5tBfI/AAAAAAAAGv0/AGFGiHYTppUFj9lisUutgipBmZKJVm-zgCLcBGAsYHQ/w687-h202/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-24%2Bat%2B8.55.32%2BPM.png" width="687" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unorthodocs. is an annual series of creative non-fiction filmmaking brought to you by the Ohio-based <a href="https://wexarts.org/" target="_blank">Wexner Center for the Arts</a>. This year, the lineup is available online (with some ticket limitations, check site for listings) and will also feature a conversation between each filmmaker and an equally as impressive member of the film community-- critics, filmmakers, film scholars etc. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_A%C3%AFnouz" target="_blank">Karim Aïnouz</a>'s Nardjes A (2020), which screened at Berlin and Visions Du Reel, centers on a day in the life of an Algerian protestor, a conversation follows the screening between the director and filmmaker/cinematographer/bombastic dresser Kirsten Johnston (Dick Johnson Is Dead, 2020). Other films in the series include Cecilia Aldarondo's Landfall (2020),<a href="http://www.davidosit.com/"> David Osit</a>'s Mayor (2020) and Ephraim Asili's The Inheritance (2020) (which I will finally get to see)! The sliding scale ticket price is a thoughtful gift-- support this Midwest beacon of culture if you can! </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">↔</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><b>The University & The Prison</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #050505;">Pozen Family Center for Human Rights + Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago / <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-university-and-the-prison-tickets-124439382543?fbclid=IwAR3vKITBFH6b0UvU7g79jvMFQweUBh-9kfshU4rN_G3m7kn9zArtTfVI7kg">zoom panel</a></span><span style="color: #050505;"></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">October 30, 2020 / 12-1:30pm CT / free w/eventbrite registration</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">For work, I watch a lot of films and the prison industrial complex is a topic I constantly confront in the nonfiction universe. After years of watching these films, I continue to wonder: is anything improving? Are any of these films doing much beyond shining a spotlight or educating on the problem? This panel seems to wonder the same: is all of the scholarship coming out of universities on mass incarceration making any real change to the systems they are studying? This panel will look at the possibilities for change and the challenges that universities face in doing the work of dismantling this broken system. Speakers include <a href="https://ssa.uchicago.edu/ssascholars/m-epperson" target="_blank">Matt Epperson</a> (Director, Smart Decareration Project) <a href="https://ssa.uchicago.edu/ssascholars/g-fedock" target="_blank">Gina Fedock </a>(Asst. Prof. School of Social Service Administration), <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/us/harvard-nyu-prison-michelle-jones.html" target="_blank">Michelle Jones</a> (Scholar, Artist, Activist, PhD Student, NYU), <a href="https://humanrights.uchicago.edu/people/alice-kim" target="_blank">Alis Kim</a> (Director of Human Rights Practice, Pozen Center Human Rights Lab) and <a href="https://ssa.uchicago.edu/ssascholars/r-miller">Reuben Miller</a> (author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration).</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XaKYUPHxEeg/X5TucS1sN4I/AAAAAAAAGwE/EQyajYZ5CUcl-n2SEKbiXDRp2grQuFELgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_113952903_93452023849_1_original.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1080" height="342" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XaKYUPHxEeg/X5TucS1sN4I/AAAAAAAAGwE/EQyajYZ5CUcl-n2SEKbiXDRp2grQuFELgCLcBGAsYHQ/w684-h342/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_113952903_93452023849_1_original.jpg" width="684" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-77987715013021912322020-10-19T00:17:00.003-04:002020-10-25T21:52:06.831-04:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of October 18th<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Top Picks for Art Online Week of October 18th</span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><i>Combahee Experimental</i>: Black Women's Experimental Filmmaking: The Black Surreal</div><div>Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University / <a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/events/combahee-experimental-celebrating-black-womens-experimental-filmmaking-the-black-surreal/">Zoom webinar</a></div><div>October 22, 2020 / 6pm ET / <a href="https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7u7wHekET-WwQNGrJmcAXg">free w/registration</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3UjkgiVbGzQ/X40PItz3uCI/AAAAAAAAGuc/OYrDO7Pp7sIRlo3oLnBIGFt0P9UlXz3IACLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/Still-from-Madeleine-Hunt-Ehrlichs-Spit-on-the-Broom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3UjkgiVbGzQ/X40PItz3uCI/AAAAAAAAGuc/OYrDO7Pp7sIRlo3oLnBIGFt0P9UlXz3IACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Still-from-Madeleine-Hunt-Ehrlichs-Spit-on-the-Broom.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">This event is part of a series that celebrates the contributions of Black women to contemporary visual culture, a series birthed from a 2018 Guggenheim conference, Loophole of Retreat, as part of Simone Leigh's Hugo Boss exhibition of the same name. On October 22, the curators of the series, </span><span style="color: #222222;">Leigh (</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/arts/design/simone-leigh-venice-biennale.html" target="_blank">who was recently announced as representing the US at the next Venice Biennale)</a><span style="color: #222222;"> and</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: #222222;">Tina Campt (a Black feminist theorist of visual and contemporary art whose forthcoming book is titled The New Black Gaze) will be in conversation with filmmakers </span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://nuotamabodomo.info/" target="_blank">Nuotama Bodomo </a>and <a href="https://www.madeleinehuntehrlich.com/" target="_blank">Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich</a> following an online screening of a selection of their films. Films included in the lineup are </span><span style="color: #222222;">Bodomo's</span><span style="color: #222222;"> critically acclaimed Afro-futurist, speculative docu-fiction dream Afronauts (2014) and </span><span style="color: #222222;">Hunt-Ehrlich's surreal documentary Spit on the Broom (2019) about the history of the </span><span style="text-align: justify;">United Order of Tents, a secret society of African American Women founded in 1867. The amount of awe, wonder and brilliance emanating from this line-up of participants is beyond inspiring- don't miss this. </span></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OM2BQIGzKrE/X40PSJLXuSI/AAAAAAAAGug/Y6sDQhmQkIcwHfn9rAvwsRPNv4vs-PvTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s965/AFRONAUTS%252B2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="965" height="423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OM2BQIGzKrE/X40PSJLXuSI/AAAAAAAAGug/Y6sDQhmQkIcwHfn9rAvwsRPNv4vs-PvTgCLcBGAsYHQ/w761-h423/AFRONAUTS%252B2.png" width="761" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">↔</div><div><br />Karen Feldman: Angel on Your Shoulder: Representations of Modern Conscience<div>Arts + Design Thursdays, UC Berkeley/ <a href="https://artsdesign.berkeley.edu/plus/events/karen-feldman-angel-on-your-shoulder-representations-of-modern-conscience">Zoom webinar</a></div><div>October 22, 2020 / 12-1 PT / <a href="https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iw84K5C-T4eMuVBXZNGglw">free w/registration</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Arts + Design Thursdays at UC Berkeley is a public lecture series hosted online that features talks across disciplines, amplifying the work of the university's professor and other Bay Area organizations. This particular lecture stood out to me because I have asked myself this question on more than one occasion: Does Facebook have a conscience? Throughout human history the notion of conscience has floated in the collective conscious-- visually and narratively shape-shifting in an ever-evolving understanding through time. Prof. Karen Feldman, whose wide-ranging background focuses on the ways in which political power manifests in society, will "<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;">explore the rhetoric of conscience, and how it was conceptualized and visualized through the ages."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.48px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JdevXgD2PMc/X40PcF06FPI/AAAAAAAAGuo/vpdT8eLARn8z63PGHQY9GfOaQyKcDWeggCLcBGAsYHQ/s511/2940056-1597396814.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="511" height="450" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JdevXgD2PMc/X40PcF06FPI/AAAAAAAAGuo/vpdT8eLARn8z63PGHQY9GfOaQyKcDWeggCLcBGAsYHQ/w731-h450/2940056-1597396814.jpg" width="731" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">↔</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes, there will be singing (2020) by Diana Thater </div><div>David Zwirner / <a href="https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/diana-thater-yes-there-will-be-singing" target="_blank">online exhibition</a></div><div>October 14-November 28, 2020 / 24hours a day / free</div><div><br /></div><div>There are two things I don't think I love more in the world than Bertolt Brecht and whales. It's true. Which is why when this exhibition came on my radar I had to do a quick double-take. <a href="https://www.thaterstudio.com/" target="_blank">Diana Thater</a>'s online experience is a livestream that features a series of security cameras positioned in a 360degree circle in a space bathed in a shifting color spectrum. The cameras flit between feeds in a disorienting fashion as the sounds of "Whale 52," a real-life whale of mythic proportions whose unique song beams at 52 Hertz-- a frequency outside of the "normal" whale song range--, shiver through the space. Has he been deafened by sonar? Can the other whales perceive his sound? Is he floating lonely in the light-dappled ocean? Whale 52's rumblings play in contrast to the buoyant, high pitched whirs of the songs of other whales, he is alone and adrift like all of us currently in isolation yet we are all invisibly connected through moments like this exhibition. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dzkl5EC8lsg/X40PjLMSlhI/AAAAAAAAGuw/Os0eD3VC4hEH67r2zyfeJnHtGpxr31OUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-18%2Bat%2B10.11.08%2BPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1148" data-original-width="2048" height="357" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dzkl5EC8lsg/X40PjLMSlhI/AAAAAAAAGuw/Os0eD3VC4hEH67r2zyfeJnHtGpxr31OUgCLcBGAsYHQ/w690-h357/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-18%2Bat%2B10.11.08%2BPM.png" width="690" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;">↔</div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-75326972578255763852020-10-11T21:53:00.008-04:002020-10-25T21:54:44.503-04:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of October 11th<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Top Picks for Art Online Week of October 11th</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Process & Performance, Pamela Z</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">EMPAC/<a href="https://empac.rpi.edu/events/2020/process-and-performance">zoom discussion, examples + demonstration</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oct 15, 2020/ 6pm ET/ free</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="1500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YJQaW1Pz7Ww/X4Ot4ZbvDmI/AAAAAAAAGtI/e_tjbtwfm7AX52kWRZzEE9QUSNphxNTWACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/pamelaz_2020.jpg" /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I just went down a <a href="http://www.pamelaz.com/" target="_blank">Pamela Z </a>rabbit hole and am now a bit obsessed: this video is gorgeous & insane! Using a mix of software, gesture-controlled MIDI instruments & more, Pamela Z layers together musical phrases, performance, visuals with precision, beauty and even hints of humor. Watching this one video it felt like she became a sort of cyborg, enhancing the sonic space through movement-- like a theramin plus-- while singing with the heart of a very human person. When experimental music reaches the heights of Pamela Z's work one truly feels like they are living in a futuristic world, one where creativity and art are existing in a whole new universe full of endless, multi-displinary possibilities. Pamela Z is doing a residency at <a href="https://gravitywaseverywherebackthen.blogspot.com/2011/01/performing-arts-center-or-death-star.html" target="_blank">EMPAC </a>(the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center@RPI), this talk will speak on the new work she is creating there and her visionary process as a whole. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YJQaW1Pz7Ww/X4Ot4ZbvDmI/AAAAAAAAGtI/e_tjbtwfm7AX52kWRZzEE9QUSNphxNTWACLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/pamelaz_2020.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="409" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ebxvVJwGWek" width="718" youtube-src-id="ebxvVJwGWek"></iframe></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">↔</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 28th Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=957358&f=29787&s=60355&m=1059489&t=c6575e71c83cec8cf3ff8bc96d1da7426da9af009d5095e2032a701dd37fd8c3">Online festival + performances + lectures </a>via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MississippiDeltaTennesseeWilliamsFestival/live">FB Live</a> + <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEoHGmZglHTdnikwx-YMcfQ">Youtube</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">October 15-17, 2020/ free, some registration for limited events</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iHSwPwIEPRk/X4OuzEdndyI/AAAAAAAAGtY/LTTVe2JXdikARMe42BMpsWzfLh9bpklVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B8.17.44%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="962" height="339" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iHSwPwIEPRk/X4OuzEdndyI/AAAAAAAAGtY/LTTVe2JXdikARMe42BMpsWzfLh9bpklVwCLcBGAsYHQ/w253-h339/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B8.17.44%2BPM.png" width="253" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The first time I read Tennessee Williams was in high school, The Glass Menagerie. When reading that play something hit me, something that felt familiar and tangible, much more human than the stale Shakespeare or the 20 millionth production of The Wiz that my school put on. There was some kind of stage direction for a screen to project the images of Blue Roses (OMG!<a href="https://twinpeaks.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Rose" target="_blank"> David Lynch</a>, my teenage brain exploded) on stage, an erasure of the four-walled space, an augmentation of what was possible, possibly my first introduction to performance art and straight line to my first love, cinema. When I saw this event come up on my feed one presentation on Saturday (October 17 from 2:15-3:15pm CT) reminded me of that sharp distant memory: Thomas Keith (William's editor for New Directions since 2002) will speak on the fest's featured play, Summer & Smoke, focusing on "<span style="background-color: white;">Williams’ inherent and natural inclination toward experimental, visual, spatial, plastic and presentational aspects of theatre that defied and expanded the bounds of traditional realism, with some focus on early drafts of the play, which included elements of film"-- oh hell yes! </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">↔</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Postcolonial Film and the Archive: History, Theory, Practice</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #050505;">C21 Media Studies Research Collaboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, UWM Moving Image Society + UWM College of Letters and Science</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">/ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/366107327718114/" target="_blank">online symposium</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">October 16, 2020/12-4pm CT/ <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1BfZGgeOCo4ycH7nfBVtw0KnYg2oq21obapUfwoGuMaFcsg/viewform" target="_blank">free w/registration</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PLPsJoGcBl4/X4OwDF1bExI/AAAAAAAAGts/lM2v8bCXa6sFnhqUvjshLGuZOMtFRyJ1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1464/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B8.22.21%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1464" height="489" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PLPsJoGcBl4/X4OwDF1bExI/AAAAAAAAGts/lM2v8bCXa6sFnhqUvjshLGuZOMtFRyJ1QCLcBGAsYHQ/w678-h489/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B8.22.21%2BPM.png" width="678" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">From the event page: "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Bringing together scholars to examine media from across the globe, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">this event will explore the historical, cultural, and political value and use of colonial and ethnographic films in connection to cultural heritage, preservation, and appropriation. From reexamining the ways in which archives and their materials are mobilized to tell certain narratives and not others, and the complexity of preserving and researching these materials in varying contexts, to interrogating the ontological and indexical status of film as memory artifacts, this symposium will raise questions about cultural heritage, ownership, historiography, and gaps and exclusions in classical film history approaches to the study of 'postcolonial' film.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">" The line up of presentations is overwhelming but the two that quickly stood out to me were films from Polish settlements in the Brazilian Wilderness in the 1930s and also a talk on the state's role in the preservation and/or destruction of archives using the largest collection of films in Ghana as a case study. The event will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">explore "the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">history, theory, and practice of postcolonial film and archives" from a broad array of visual pasts whose implications and frames are forever burnt into the present. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P9xq9DYGky0/X4OvAiUeUpI/AAAAAAAAGtg/EfGDjk3wvY05Bgvxaq3DEBzRk8r_EzKHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1409/118740838_1646029072240817_7136043343632430757_o.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1409" height="463" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P9xq9DYGky0/X4OvAiUeUpI/AAAAAAAAGtg/EfGDjk3wvY05Bgvxaq3DEBzRk8r_EzKHQCLcBGAsYHQ/w699-h463/118740838_1646029072240817_7136043343632430757_o.jpg" width="699" /></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>Mikio Sakabe</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Tokyo Fashion Week/<a href="http://www.tokyofashionfilm.com/" target="_blank">online fashion show</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">October 17, 2020/12am CT (3pm Tokyo?)/ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CGNGTl-DEYt/" target="_blank">free</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z_I7aVoyTc4/X4Pdqs0z-9I/AAAAAAAAGt8/sv1vLu4BsLQscNAYGMiZqq2C2ZZmOc2CgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B11.17.53%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1192" height="662" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z_I7aVoyTc4/X4Pdqs0z-9I/AAAAAAAAGt8/sv1vLu4BsLQscNAYGMiZqq2C2ZZmOc2CgCLcBGAsYHQ/w658-h662/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B11.17.53%2BPM.png" width="658" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Won't lie, I do not know much about the brand <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mikiosakabe/?hl=en" target="_blank">Mikio Sakabe</a>, or Tokyo fashion week for that matter, but ever since glimpsing the label's collaborations with the footwear company <a href="https://www.instagram.com/grounds.official/?hl=en" target="_blank">grounds </a>I've followed them on Instagram with a cult-like fervor. Their clothes have a delicate feel (think sheer, lacey, florals) but with a restricting edge (a tight buckle, a bounding tie-back, arms of a formidable length). The shoes though, the shoes! Baubles of round plastic, breathy looking knits, translucent rubber, streetwear ready sneakers (and sandals!?) that scream at me on the internet asking to transport me into some cloud-like headspace where I can float ethereally through the greys and chaos of a cityscape....ahhh...I am totally aware of the frivolity of fashion but, I tend to treat it like I do most art: dreaming is a needed escape, creativity is a form of resilience, the senses can define and change lives. Also: donate to your local food bank...it's all about balance.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div><br />Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-66498476180977800582020-10-04T22:58:00.007-04:002020-10-25T21:50:47.234-04:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of October 4th<p style="text-align: center;">Top Picks for Art Online Week of October 4th</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div><b>Practice Lecture Series: Ephraim Asili</b></div><div>MFA Art Practice, SVA NYC/<a href="https://sva.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SyOflSvsTnmhE22OD-5IjQ" target="_blank">Zoom Webinar</a></div><div>October 6, 2020/12-2pm ET/ free w/registration</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WjolpNprasY/X3tecIC3fPI/AAAAAAAAGsU/FyczyBKwnYUR8LTJx3Wa-EUZ8v7Ewl1HACLcBGAsYHQ/s1400/the-inheritance-1.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="1400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WjolpNprasY/X3tecIC3fPI/AAAAAAAAGsU/FyczyBKwnYUR8LTJx3Wa-EUZ8v7Ewl1HACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/the-inheritance-1.png" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"That conversation about the chore wheel is truth," or something like that was what a colleague of mine said during a Zoom conversation when discussing Asili's latest film The Inheritance which recently dropped at TIFF and NYFF. Radical, communal living is a microcosm unlike any other, one that I have only witnessed from a safe distance living next door to a Food Not Bombs house whose members would come over to retrieve sneakers and bagels that ended up on our porch eave after their nightly meetings...I haven't seen the film but I have heard that it is a frank look at the dynamics that flourish in an intentional living space, a space filled with idealism and activism but also the chaos and interpersonal dynamics inherent in humanity. The piece is based on the director's own experience but also historical accounts of the West-Philly liberation group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE" target="_blank">MOVE</a>, a group known for trying to reconcile peace, love and anarchy to sometimes devastating results. This Webinar is hosted by the School of Visual Arts MFA Art Practice Program and will feature Asili speaking on his film and art-- don't miss!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>TIME (2020) by Garrett Bradley</b></div><div>The Momentary, Amazon Studios/ Online <a href="https://themomentary.org/calendar/time-by-garrett-bradley/">Screening & Zoom Q+A</a></div><div>October 7, 2020/6-8pm CT/ free w/registration</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eDj509GtrfU/X3qDan0LI1I/AAAAAAAAGr4/h3IhsY3-iXEN7byOj83PHBpakrocC0g7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s299/download.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="373" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eDj509GtrfU/X3qDan0LI1I/AAAAAAAAGr4/h3IhsY3-iXEN7byOj83PHBpakrocC0g7ACLcBGAsYHQ/w664-h373/download.jpg" width="664" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I don't know how to describe the film TIME as it fully speaks for itself. At its heart, it is about Fox Rich, a woman who was incarcerated after robbing a bank with her husband when pushed to their financial limits. Now free, Fox works tirelessly to free her husband who faces a 60 year sentence. Fox strives for a sense of normalcy, purpose, excellence and family while forced to acknowledge the devastating loss they face daily. Unguarded moments of frustration blend with scratchy, personal home videos shot over the years by Rich for her husband, placid images of a Southern lifestyle unfold in warm greys, voice-overs from Rich and her sons speak of what time and image can rend or birth-- growth, change and becoming push through the years tainted with a quiet void. It is a film about the prison industrial complex but, it is much more than that, it is a deeply felt portrait of a woman and her family collaborating with a filmmaker to tell their story with the reflection and complexity it deserves: this is the forefront of a new way to think about documentary film. This screening is (amazingly) free and will also feature a post-screening live Q+A with the director via Zoom. </div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><br /></div><div><b>Ask An Archivist Day</b></div><div>UCLA Film & Television Archive/ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/uclaftvarchive/">Instagram,</a> Twitter + Facebook</div><div>October 7, 2020/10am-2pm PT/free </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fm6LHszNQSc/X3qDjWD-ZHI/AAAAAAAAGr8/TGaYGEFZcIMb3_hltfD36PxoOl0EgDaLwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1922/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-04%2Bat%2B8.46.59%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1922" height="303" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fm6LHszNQSc/X3qDjWD-ZHI/AAAAAAAAGr8/TGaYGEFZcIMb3_hltfD36PxoOl0EgDaLwCLcBGAsYHQ/w664-h303/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-04%2Bat%2B8.46.59%2BPM.png" width="664" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Was there ever a moment where you wondered what the optimal storage situation for film reels is? Or what the best way to archive VHS home movies would be? Or if organic material or hand-painted film frames need to be stored differently? You haven't thought about these things? I can't be the only one who has regularly thought about these things! I feel like on an almost monthly basis I dream of some alternate life where I work in a darkened basement room repairing and preserving weird artifacts of the moving image's past...wait, do they work in darkened basements? What tools do they use? What is the optimal temperature for DCP storage? Well, on this magical day all of your (my?) archival questions can be asked via the UCLA Film & Television Archive's Ask An Archivist Day! Obviously, I was far too excited when I learned this was a thing (me=nerd), I hope you are too. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Conversations at the Edge: American Artist & Blue Life Seminar (2019)</b></div><div>School of the Art Institute of Chicago via Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema/<a href="https://www.saic.edu/events/american-artist" target="_blank">Online Talk</a> + <a href="https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/bluelifeseminar" target="_blank">Film Screening</a></div><div>October 8, 2020 talk, October 4-10, 2020 film/ 7-8:15pm CT/free, film free w/registration</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y9m5qMIbNgY/X3qDqDm88TI/AAAAAAAAGsA/ZK7mgPO-TZ83dfPsdGyE0ppH5MasILCwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s920/1%2529%2B10_8%2B-%2BAmerican%2BArtist%252C%2BBlue%2BLife%2BSeminar%252C%2B2019.%2BCourtesy%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bartist.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="920" height="386" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y9m5qMIbNgY/X3qDqDm88TI/AAAAAAAAGsA/ZK7mgPO-TZ83dfPsdGyE0ppH5MasILCwgCLcBGAsYHQ/w686-h386/1%2529%2B10_8%2B-%2BAmerican%2BArtist%252C%2BBlue%2BLife%2BSeminar%252C%2B2019.%2BCourtesy%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bartist.jpg" width="686" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I just finished watching <a href="https://americanartist.us/" target="_blank">American Artist</a>'s piece Blue Life Seminar via the Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema, the centerpiece of their 2019 exhibit <a href="http://koenigandclinton.com/exhibitions/american-artist-im-blue-if-i-was-%e2%96%88%e2%96%88%e2%96%88%e2%96%88%e2%96%88-i-would-die/release/" target="_blank">I'M BLUE (IF I WAS I <i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.5px; background-color: white; color: #191919; letter-spacing: 1.75px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;">█████ </i>WOULD DIE)</a>. The piece exists on a plane of digital life, wavering between fictions and facts, perceptions, shifting between the Dr. Manhattan (the Marvel superhero) and Christopher Dorner (a Black L.A. Police Officer who was driven to dire ends, including a FB Manifesto, after reporting excessive force by a fellow officer only to be fired). "Luckily I don't have to live everyday like most of you concerned that the misconduct you are a part of is going to be discovered, looking over your shoulder..." words that could come from either figure, both in a space thwarting control-- refusing to become control-- expounded on in a space controlled and questioned by this visionary contemporary artist, whose work often<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> "<span style="letter-spacing: -0.12px;">examines Black labor and visibility within networked life</span>." </span></span>The Conversations at the Edge lecture series at the SAIC is one that is so expertly curated it seems to exist steps into the future, luckily you can experience American Artist's futuristic brilliance via this online offering from the esteemed series. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-87137629628794373302020-09-27T22:12:00.003-04:002020-10-25T21:50:32.506-04:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of September 27th<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Top Picks for Art Online Week of September 6th</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><div><b>Espaço preto (Black Space), Part One: How to Write a Feminist History of the Recent Past</b></div><div>MoMA, <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America</span>/ </span><a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6705" target="_blank">Online Lecture, Panel</a></div><div>September 28, 2020/ 5-6pm/ Free w/registration</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DKmfV4MvCaY/X3EyVQpcHAI/AAAAAAAAGq8/zra1gq0quXMnDWrRSUL3MhOd_gI-OexlACLcBGAsYHQ/s1396/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-27%2Bat%2B7.19.32%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1396" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DKmfV4MvCaY/X3EyVQpcHAI/AAAAAAAAGq8/zra1gq0quXMnDWrRSUL3MhOd_gI-OexlACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-27%2Bat%2B7.19.32%2BPM.png" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Espaço preto (Black Space) is a series put on by the <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute, an organization dedicated to the study of art from Latin America, specifically relating modern and contemporary art to larger cultural issues as they sit in a global context. </span></span>This event will pose the following questions:<span style="font-family: inherit;"> "<span style="background-color: white;">Where is the history of recent exhibitions organized by Black and Indigenous people in Brazil within the canon of contemporary Latin American art? How might a feminist methodology account for other ways of recording art’s histories and the residue of culture?" The panel will use two specific moments in recent Brazilian exhibition as a lens in which to view the place of emerging, integral histories, the 2015-2017 workshop and platform AfroTranscendence (AfroT) by collaborators artist <a href="https://mendeswooddm.com/en/exhibition/rosana-paulino" target="_blank">Rosana Paulino </a>and curator Diane Lima (both on the panel) and also the 2016-2017 conversations and exhibition </span><em style="--language-font-face: "MoMA Sans"; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: top;">Diálogos Ausentes (Absent Dialogues)</em><span style="background-color: white;"> at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo. The panel will also feature the event's organizer, Thomas J. Lax, Cisneros Research Grant Fellow and curator in </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MoMA’s Department of Media and Performance in New York.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>(BTW, the <a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6711" target="_blank">Glitch Feminism Panel </a>at MoMA is at capacity or I would have also included this event!)</i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The New Social Environment: Susan Frecon w/Joan Waltemath & Louis Block</b></div><div>The Brooklyn Rail/ <a href="https://brooklynrail.org/events/2020/09/29/suzan-frecon-with-joan-waltemath-and-louis-block/" target="_blank">Zoom Talk</a></div><div>September 29, 2020/1pm EST/ Free w/registration</div><div><br /></div><div>The New Social Environment is a series of lunchtime talks that publication The Brooklyn Rail began hosting as a response to the pandemic, in this edition Susan Frecon will be the focus as her latest show at <a href="https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/suzan-frecon-2020?utm_campaign=SFDZ20SHOW2020&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&gclid=CjwKCAjw8MD7BRArEiwAGZsrBS4pyD5gUZ_gQydEAFyu0TK5h0j0R14zkCXugWrRvQpwUPQ7coGz3RoCNTYQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">David Zwirner </a>is currently on view until October 17. Susan Frecon is an abstract contemporary painter dealing with geometric shapes and finishes that seem to release the mind from space with form and texture. <a href="https://www.joanwaltemath.net/" target="_blank">Joan Waltemath</a> is also an abstract contemporary artist (and editor-at-large at the Brooklyn Rail) with a very different approach: her pieces tend to play in negative space or absence, grids and fields of white and lines intersecting in their own spatial adherence. <a href="https://louisblock.com/writing">Louis Block</a>'s artwork is an enigma on the internet but his art writing is not, having contributed to many different esteemed publications. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l-FWTQ6m4Do/X3EyqQ-0hDI/AAAAAAAAGrI/N9AiQ9zXK-s9w_zY_BPEr3q1q2OlZz0_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1592/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-27%2Bat%2B7.45.30%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="1592" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l-FWTQ6m4Do/X3EyqQ-0hDI/AAAAAAAAGrI/N9AiQ9zXK-s9w_zY_BPEr3q1q2OlZz0_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w680-h480/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-27%2Bat%2B7.45.30%2BPM.png" width="680" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Getting Real '20</b></div><div>International Documentary Association/<a href="https://www.documentary.org/gettingreal20" target="_blank">Digital Conference </a></div><div>September 29-October 3, 2020/Free w/registration (some restrictions)</div><div><br /></div><div><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="980" height="139" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NT7xv04bMeQ/X3EywQtmxnI/AAAAAAAAGrQ/wVpY1kYw-hIxkLFteUCM3NAsNd3_2n1yACLcBGAsYHQ/w686-h139/GR20_banner4.png" width="686" /></div><div><br /></div><div>IDA is an organization that supports documentary culture. The first time I heard of them was when I learned about the "Documentary Core Application," basically a standard guideline for grant applications used across funding organizations, saving documentary teams in time, energy and resources. It is a simple but brilliant way to make the process more accessible, just as they are making their biennial conference, Getting Real, accessible. This year's conference will be hosted entirely online (and free!) and features a massive array of discussions, breakouts and more centering on the themes of access, power & possibility. I'm really excited to finally attend this event and have slowly been building my schedule which so far includes "behind the scenes of field accountability and possibility" and Firelight Media's "#beyondresilience: the liberatory canon."</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Paul Robeson: Here I Stand</b> (1999) by St. Clair Bourne <span class="LrzXr kno-fv" face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"></span></div><div>Maysles Documentary Center, Virtual Maysles- <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Made In Harlem: Remembering The Renaissance (2020)</span></span>/<a href="https://www.maysles.org/calendar/2020/9/22/paul-robeson-here-i-stand" target="_blank">Online Film Screening</a></div><div>September 25-Oct 1, 2020/ Free w/registration</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dfTm_vfrjww/X3Ey2UNYd2I/AAAAAAAAGrU/mXIeMUB020AAxg-HY1SN24WdW7TgFjtsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/image-asset.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1500" height="381" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dfTm_vfrjww/X3Ey2UNYd2I/AAAAAAAAGrU/mXIeMUB020AAxg-HY1SN24WdW7TgFjtsgCLcBGAsYHQ/w677-h381/image-asset.jpg" width="677" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Maysles description of this event is really quite elegant: "<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; white-space: pre-wrap;">A perfect meeting of subject—singer, actor, activist, lawyer, humanitarian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson" target="_blank">Paul Robeson</a>, and filmmaker—writer, organizer, magazine editor, historian <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/arts/18bourne.html" target="_blank">St. Clair Bourne</a>, Paul Robeson: Here I Stand is an epic of the biographical documentary. Bourne’s directing and producing career was dedicated to understanding and portraying people and subjects ignored by mainstream media, and his study of Robeson is a clear-eyed analysis of an oft-misunderstood giant of the 20th century. A master class in the synthesis of archival research and modern documentary filmmaking, and a rightful classic of the form."</span></span></div><div><span face="proxima-nova" style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: times; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-39991592436078356292020-09-20T16:16:00.007-04:002020-10-25T21:50:19.677-04:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of September 20th<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Top Picks for Online Art Week of September 20th</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Joan Snyder: Summer Becomes a Room </b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Canada/<a href="https://www.instagram.com/canada.nyc/" target="_blank">Zoom Panel Discussion</a> & Q+A</div><div style="text-align: left;">September 20, 2020/5pm ET/<a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__EnddTRORJOPsVnVZk4LfA" target="_blank">free w/registration</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mfCwep-naBM/X2fzH-hUKFI/AAAAAAAAGqk/ZG3H-MX3wKA4wWj9l65r2mmarNHAQM49QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/JSny2019-019_Ode_To_Summer_photo_by_Jason_Mandella_DrYwBoi.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1027" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mfCwep-naBM/X2fzH-hUKFI/AAAAAAAAGqk/ZG3H-MX3wKA4wWj9l65r2mmarNHAQM49QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/JSny2019-019_Ode_To_Summer_photo_by_Jason_Mandella_DrYwBoi.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">American Painter <a href="https://www.joansnyder.net/about-joan-snyder">Joan Snyder</a> has been practicing for around fifty years and, like most female abstract expressionists, I have never heard of her. Canada gallery recently opened its first showing of her work and, in conjunction with the exhibition, a panel and Q+A will be happening online. The panel will be moderated by Canada's Director <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ine_kimba" target="_blank">Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle </a>and features curator <a href="https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/about/staff/38" target="_blank">Mary Schneider Enriquez </a>(Harvard Art Museums), <a href="https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/curatorial_staff/morris" target="_blank">Catherine Morris</a> (Brooklyn Museum) and sculptor <a href="https://www.arleneshechet.net/">Arlene Shechet</a>. The panel will be followed by a Q+A with the panelists in addition to the artist! Looking at the images from the show (Summer Becomes A Room) there is a multi-dimensional quality to the work, moving beyond the canvas to allow for textures to rise slightly from the flat surface with colorful, graphic movement. The abstractions seem to move from shapes to figures, each one embodying its own relationship with the viewer to evoke their personal experience, suggesting symbolic associations but ultimately asking the audience to find their own conclusions and emotions towards her expressive strokes, squirts and sculptured canvases. </div></div><b><i><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">↔</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div>Smooth Talk </i>(1985) w/Laura Dern, Joyce Chopra & Joyce Carol Oates </b></div><div style="text-align: left;">New York Film Festival, HBO/<a href="https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2020/films/free-talk-the-women-of-smooth-talk/">Zoom Talk</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">September 23, 2020/4:30pm ET/<a href="https://filmlinc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dB8_JP5lQAScMV9-n1vH_Q" target="_blank">free w/registration</a> (the film is available for rent</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0varJ1e1IUY/X2exWhtvzdI/AAAAAAAAGqA/8NX4QxTjXkwRGn9mKKp_9R8X3ayLgThHACLcBGAsYHQ/s445/51s1EIyX8UL._SY445_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="320" height="304" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0varJ1e1IUY/X2exWhtvzdI/AAAAAAAAGqA/8NX4QxTjXkwRGn9mKKp_9R8X3ayLgThHACLcBGAsYHQ/w219-h304/51s1EIyX8UL._SY445_.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">The 58th New York Film Festival is upon us! Hurrah! Yet another fest I've never been able to attend but moving the fest partially online has opened up a little bit more possibility in terms of participating in screenings (some available digitally for rent!) and panels. HBO is presenting a series of Free Talks online focused on films new and old. One of the ones I'm pretty interested in revolves around 1985 coming of age thriller <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6B_BEmo7ws">Smooth Talk</a> starring a young and (as always) intensely mesmerizing Laura Dern as a woman seeking the approval of men who, unfortunately, ends up attracting the wrong man. Being that the film is inspired by a story by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates" target="_blank">Joyce Carol O</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates" target="_blank">ates</a>, I assumed it was a feminist anthem but after doing some light looking online there is some question as to whether Oates is considered feminine as opposed to feminist-- on cursory viewing, this trailer feels a bit final-girl/victim blame-y-- making me extra intrigued by the film's intentions and the talk! The discussion will feature Dern, Oates and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Chopra" target="_blank">Joyce Chopra, </a>the film's Director, and will be moderated by TCM host <a href="https://aliciamalone.com/" target="_blank">Alicia Malone</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1HGhOVBDdEI/X2exkLkS5vI/AAAAAAAAGqE/CgOVKToGGwoa2jSw7pQ5KRHvBF-_P6_RgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Smooth-Talk-1-1600x900-c-default.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="390" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1HGhOVBDdEI/X2exkLkS5vI/AAAAAAAAGqE/CgOVKToGGwoa2jSw7pQ5KRHvBF-_P6_RgCLcBGAsYHQ/w694-h390/Smooth-Talk-1-1600x900-c-default.jpg" width="694" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Art History Curatorial Studies Collective Atlanta University Center & Spelman College Department of Art Visual Culture/ <a href="https://aucartcollective.org/eventbrite-event/marking-time-art-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/">Online Presentation & Conversation</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">September 23, 2020/6:30-7:30pm ET/<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/marking-time-art-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration-tickets-119438448615" target="_blank">free with registration</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rr_Fxi6Rx4k/X2exujk5DzI/AAAAAAAAGqM/BZS6_cwK2YwFX04-4GIQfz6vY_xgN_IxACLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/3145_image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="900" height="758" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rr_Fxi6Rx4k/X2exujk5DzI/AAAAAAAAGqM/BZS6_cwK2YwFX04-4GIQfz6vY_xgN_IxACLcBGAsYHQ/w682-h758/3145_image.jpg" width="682" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The exhibition <a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5208" target="_blank">Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration</a> is on display at MoMA PS1 curated by Guest Curator <a href="https://amerstudies.rutgers.edu/faculty-menu/core-faculty/nicole-r-fleetwood" target="_blank">Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood</a>, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University and author of a recently published book that shares the exhibit's title. The book and show focus on works of art from incarcerated artists and non-incarcerated artists with some relationship to the prison system. The pieces <span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">be</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">ar witness to artists’ reimagining of the fundamentals of living—time, space, and physical matter—pushing the possibilities of these basic features of daily experience to create new aesthetic visions achieved through material and formal invention....</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">From various sites of freedom or unfreedom, these artists devise strategies for visualizing, mapping, and making physically present the impact and scale of life under carceral conditions.</span><span style="background-color: white;">" The images from the show are powerful and the topic of the prison industrial complex is one whose devastating effects ripple outward, these pieces of art representations of its ongoing waves. As part of a Distinguished Lecture series, Dr. Fleetwood will present on the subject followed by a discussion between Fleetwood and MoMA PS1 Director<a href="https://www.moma.org/about/senior-staff/kate-fowle" target="_blank"> Kate Fowle </a>moderated by Dr. Cheryl Finley, Director of the AUC Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span></div><span><br /></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-83602030646726696342020-09-13T23:36:00.001-04:002020-10-25T21:49:58.350-04:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of September 13th<div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Top Picks for Art Online Week of September 13th</span></p></div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><b><br /></b></div>Black Women Film Conference</span></b><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Negress Film Society/<a href="https://newnegressfilmsociety.com/black-womens-film-conference" target="_blank">Online Screenings & Conversations</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">September 7-October 4, 2020/Conversations Thursday & Friday 6:30-7:30 EST on Facebook & Youtube Live/Free (Though I personally suggest donations!)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4UCp_UFgECk/X17d27zO-PI/AAAAAAAAGo0/hvcqpW6nyG0l1RX7E2z5yKnFnAb3Is5qwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1594/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-13%2Bat%2B10.02.15%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="1594" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4UCp_UFgECk/X17d27zO-PI/AAAAAAAAGo0/hvcqpW6nyG0l1RX7E2z5yKnFnAb3Is5qwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-13%2Bat%2B10.02.15%2BPM.png" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I programmed for a women's film festival I came across the work being done by The New Negress Film Society and fell deeply in love. As stated on their website, "The New Negress Film Society is a core collective of black women filmmakers whose priority is to create community and spaces for support, exhibition and consciousness-raising. <span style="background-color: white;">The group is formed by <a href="https://newnegressfilmsociety.com/chanelle-aponte-pearson" target="_blank">Chanelle Aponte Pearson</a>, <a href="https://nuotamabodomo.info/" target="_blank">Nuotama Bodomo</a>,<a href="https://dyani.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank"> </a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: vcsm; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://dyani.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Dyani Douze</a>, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.jatovia.com/#1" target="_blank">Ja'Tovia Gary</a>, <a href="https://stefanisaintonge.com/" target="_blank">Stefani Saintonge</a> and <a href="https://newnegressfilmsociety.com/yvonne-michelle-shirley-1" target="_blank">Yvonne Michelle Shirley</a>." The work these women are making and mothering is beyond compare: progressive in form and content, speaking to a future of black female creativity through politics, history, and art. If I'm not mistaken, this conference was to take place at PS1 prior to the pandemic but I am so thrilled it has moved online so even more people can access the work being done by this profound collective. The conference features a series of screenings focusing on the work of individual directors and conversations with these directors on topics such as </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">The Specificity of Place: a conversation with <a href="http://spiritfarmfilms.com/dperalta" target="_blank">Diana Peralta</a> and <a href="http://www.farenhumes.com/" target="_blank">Faren Humes</a> and also </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">Filming the Self: a conversation with <a href="http://woymagazine.com/2020/02/24/gessica-geneus-announces-new-film-freda/" target="_blank">Gessica Geneus</a>, <a href="https://powfilmfest.com/respect-and-love" target="_blank">Angelique Webster</a>, and <a href="https://www.iyabokwayana.com/" target="_blank">Iyabo Kwayana</a></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">↔</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Planet Africa 25: Black Film Now </b>w/Dieudo Hamadi, Charles Officer, Tommy Oliver & Dawn Porter moderated by Cameron Bailey</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">TIFF/<a href="https://www.planetafricalegacy.com/2020">Online Conversation</a></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sepetember 16, 2020/Free</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z6_IyOi_OFY/X17eCO7sr-I/AAAAAAAAGo4/12cIop_fWmAfOCypwIwW8bCmTSzK_1X8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1788/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-13%2Bat%2B9.56.35%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1788" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z6_IyOi_OFY/X17eCO7sr-I/AAAAAAAAGo4/12cIop_fWmAfOCypwIwW8bCmTSzK_1X8gCLcBGAsYHQ/w674-h360/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-13%2Bat%2B9.56.35%2BPM.png" width="674" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Planet Africa, a series founded by programmer, film critic, Artistic Director and Co-Head of TIFF <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Bailey" target="_blank">Cameron Bailey</a> dedicated to film from Africa and the African diaspora, celebrates its 25 Year Anniversary with a special lineup of events and films. Though I messed up and was too late to post the Free events that took place on the 13th, there is still a Free event on the 16th that you can catch! This panel, Planet Africa 25: Black Film Now, will include filmmakers featured in this year's TIFF lineup under the Planet Africa banner. <a href="https://www.tiff.net/events/downstream-to-kinshasa" target="_blank">Dieudo Hamadi</a>, <a href="https://www.tiff.net/events/akillas-escape" target="_blank">Charles Officer,</a> <a href="https://tiff.net/events/40-years-a-prisoner" target="_blank">Tommy Oliver</a> and <a href="https://www.tiff.net/events/the-way-i-see-it" target="_blank">Dawn Porter </a>will come together with Bailey to speak on the current state of contemporary Black filmmaking-- it's challenges and strengths. Each of these filmmakers holds such a distinct vision and voice, it will be fascinating to hear them discuss their perspectives on contemporary filmmaking at such a pivotal, changing time while reflecting on the legacy of this esteemed series.</span></div><div></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">↔</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Music Critics' Round Table</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">w/ Heidi Waleson, Zachary Woolfe & Zoë Madonna moderated by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">Naomi Lewin</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">92Y, Gilda & Henry Block School of Music/<a href="https://www.92y.org/event/music-critics-round-table?fbclid=IwAR2eWcajJ6ZBIe4TVaFBcnow6vr_kTD9xu1s8ePG17EvLH9NkShnF5dpE8o" target="_blank">Online Class</a></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">September 15, 7pm ET/$15</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">Every child dreams of being a music critic? Wait, no? Ok. Well, I dreamed of being a music critic at some very, very young age. At some point in college I even wrote for an indie arts magazine on campus under a pseudonym out of fear of recognition and judgment <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc" target="_blank">(how ironic</a>!). There is something in trying to describe a strictly sonic experience to others that has always been appealing to me: how does one convey the tone, the notes, the emotion, the rhythm, the lyrics through a written description? How does a music critic listen and translate what they hear to words? </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2a2a2a;">The New York Times</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">’ <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/zachary-woolfe" target="_blank">Zachary Woolfe</a>, the </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2a2a2a;">Wall Street Journal</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">’s <a href="https://www.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=HEIDI+WALESON&bylinesearch=true" target="_blank">Heidi Waleson</a> and </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2a2a2a;">The Boston Globe</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">’s <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/zoe-madonna/" target="_blank">Zoë Madonna</a> will discuss the secret world of music critics with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">former WQXR host <a href="https://www.naomilewin.com/about" target="_blank">Naomi Lewin</a>. Though the ticket is a bit steep for the times, the <a href="https://www.92y.org/" target="_blank">92Y</a> is a great (physical) space that could no doubt use the support. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X6g2fXroqTY/X17eKnaGk-I/AAAAAAAAGpA/aLhZUB2WclwmoaaMpro41bQyjYjOadLuACLcBGAsYHQ/s1462/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-13%2Bat%2B10.01.40%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1462" height="421" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X6g2fXroqTY/X17eKnaGk-I/AAAAAAAAGpA/aLhZUB2WclwmoaaMpro41bQyjYjOadLuACLcBGAsYHQ/w701-h421/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-13%2Bat%2B10.01.40%2BPM.png" width="701" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-42573501170766507622020-09-07T20:01:00.012-04:002020-10-25T21:49:39.657-04:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of September 6th<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Top Picks for Art Online Week of September 6th</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div><div><b>Of Lies & Liars Study 01-05 </b>(2020) by Tony Cokes </div><div>The Shed/Up Close Screening Online</div><div>Last installment September 6, 2020-Ongoing Exhibit/<a href="https://theshed.org/program/161-tony-cokes">Free</a> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ni135Nga8GA/X1bfFNF81DI/AAAAAAAAGoU/rgI_KAJ-pz8tKMUIsEDQoL277s0-G6mcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s626/4ec09c946d59bfd8372c52d744b1c560.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="626" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ni135Nga8GA/X1bfFNF81DI/AAAAAAAAGoU/rgI_KAJ-pz8tKMUIsEDQoL277s0-G6mcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/4ec09c946d59bfd8372c52d744b1c560.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>In a new piece commissioned by <a href="The Shed" target="_blank">The Shed</a>, a behemoth of a performance space that was just beginning to come into its own in NYC before the pandemic made live events a matter of life and death, <a href="https://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/artists/tony-cokes" target="_blank">Tony Cokes </a>has been premiering a new video for the past five weeks. The series wrapped up this weekend but all installments are now available online. The piece takes direct aim at the national response to Covid-19 using his signature on-screen text & music montage; the words in white sweep by in frames of bold red and blue. Seeing facts regarding the pandemic in America splayed out across a screen, a screen I am watching nearly trapped at home while the small city I live in is experiencing a college induced pandemic spike putting us in the top ten cities of rapid case-growth, makes me simmer with rage along with pangs of sadness and fear but there is also a little twinge of hope brought on by the fact that this piece of art exists as a creative piece of resistance. Share this piece widely. </div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Confronting the Colonial Gaze</b> </div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Open City Documentary Festival/ <a href="https://opencitylondon.com/events/confronting-the-colonial-gaze/?fbclid=IwAR2n21ARMpzdRnmTv6vFB7-mj1-TMDWO2O4lyvoAgZlrLiDEumrL_UVJkn4">Online Discussion</a></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">September 9, 2020/17:30 UTC/Free</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fWHgZgvKoxU/X1arVftMhUI/AAAAAAAAGnA/uxkYy9G1U5cTGTsPDKZHFaPTHP3czPIWwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-07%2Bat%2B4.15.49%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="2048" height="436" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fWHgZgvKoxU/X1arVftMhUI/AAAAAAAAGnA/uxkYy9G1U5cTGTsPDKZHFaPTHP3czPIWwCLcBGAsYHQ/w781-h436/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-07%2Bat%2B4.15.49%2BPM.png" width="781" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">One of the earliest documentary films was Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty's manufactured account of an Inuk man named Nanook (actually, his name was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Allakariallak, changed for marketing purposes for European & American audiences). So much of nonfiction filmmaking has </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">roots in false narratives, an imbalance of power, a subversion of truth, subjective imagery, and biased ethnography. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The history of documentary film is fraught, to say the least. The relationship between colonialism, imperialism and doc film </span><span style="background-color: white;">continues to be confronted, called out and actively dismantled. In this panel, a group of artists and filmmakers challenging the legacy of nonfiction filmmaking will discuss ways in which they deal with the "colonial gaze" and the flourishing of post-colonial filmmaking practice. The event will be </span><span style="background-color: white;">hosted by </span><a href="https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5589" style="background-color: white;">Fatimah Tobing Rony</a><span style="background-color: white;"> and feature panelists </span><a href="https://www.onyekaigwe.com/" style="background-color: white;">Onyeka Igwe</a><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><a href="https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=3587" style="background-color: white;">Ephraim Asili</a><span style="background-color: white;"> & </span><a href="https://www.laurahuertasmillan.com/" style="background-color: white;">Laura Huertas Millán</a>. </div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy: A Panel Discussion on Mothers of Massive Resistance</b></div><div>The University fo Chicago Civic Engagement, <span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture</span></span>/<a href="https://civicengagement.uchicago.edu/events/virtual-event-white-women-and-the-politics-of-white-supremacy-a-panel-discussion-on-mothers-of-massive-resistance"> Zoom Webinar</a></div><div>September 10, 2020/3-4pm CT (?)/ Free w/registration</div><div><br /></div><div>Calling all <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/karen" target="_blank">Karens</a>! Calling all <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bbq-becky" target="_blank">Beckys</a>! Even though it's a much-shared meme, the grotesque racism of Karens and the like over the past few years is not actually a laughing matter. The complicity of white women in the reinforcement of racism has historical precedence, everyday perpetrators of Jim Crow oppression. Elizabeth Gillespie McRae's book <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mothers-of-massive-resistance-9780190271718?cc=us&lang=en&">Mothers of Massive Resistance</a>, the book at the center of this event, covers the broader implications of women's central role in crafting white supremacist politics. From teaching segregationist family values to protesting busing practices, this under-looked group was integral in the shaping of the nation's racist ideals, a role so often aligned with white male conservatives. Joining the conversation will be author <span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elizabeth </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;">Gillespie McRae (Associate Professor of History, Western Carolina University), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;">Kathleen Belew (Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago and author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America) and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;">LaToya Jefferson-James (Assistant Professor of Literature, Mississippi Valley State University). </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Obyu6nACgq4/X1arb0_8bkI/AAAAAAAAGnE/bP56gPVfzSYNIhSaZm2c0hA0gzQttO2lgCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/image_processing20200902-17010-twdnx1.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="600" height="506" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Obyu6nACgq4/X1arb0_8bkI/AAAAAAAAGnE/bP56gPVfzSYNIhSaZm2c0hA0gzQttO2lgCLcBGAsYHQ/w781-h506/image_processing20200902-17010-twdnx1.jpg" width="781" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">↔</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Best of TIFF Reunions</b></div><div>Toronto Internation Film Festival/<a href="https://tiff.net/films?programme=reunions&list">Online events</a></div><div>September 10-20, 2020/Free</div><div><br /></div><div>I've never been to TIFF in-person but luckily I get to attend digitally this year thanks to one of my employers! Woohoo! Even though passes and tickets co$t big money, there are some free digital events going on, their social media is the best place for updates on this! One (lighter!) event I thought I should highlight is the "Best of TIFF Reunions" series which will focus classic TIFF films from the fest's 43-year-old history, bringing together directors, crew and cast to speak on their filmmaking memories. Films included in this lineup are Full Metal Jacket, Room,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Weill" target="_blank"> Claudia Weill's</a> 1978 influential indie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriends_(1978_film)" target="_blank">Girlfriends</a>, Requiem for a Dream and LadyBird featuring a Twitter watch party with special guests which will kick off the series on <a href="https://tiff.net/events/best-of-tiff-reunions-lady-bird">September 8th at 7:30pm EDT</a>. If anyone has any suggestions for things I should see at this year's fest please holler! I have a viewing schedule but I didn't realize how much I rely on marketing to push me into screenings I know nothing about-- maybe digital fests need a digital telephone pole to staple postcards and posters too? </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l2wKci79SNc/X1arnaLNhTI/AAAAAAAAGnQ/_k5kK3lLfZwazt6ZCKsU6iKnOETZugy1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-07%2Bat%2B4.49.08%2BPM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="2048" height="545" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l2wKci79SNc/X1arnaLNhTI/AAAAAAAAGnQ/_k5kK3lLfZwazt6ZCKsU6iKnOETZugy1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w781-h545/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-09-07%2Bat%2B4.49.08%2BPM.png" width="781" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">↔</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: times; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Please send recs for upcoming weeks to: donnak3[at]gmail[dot]com</span></div></div></div>Donna K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18105463446701104120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2813219985336501716.post-46632341531492883372020-08-29T20:14:00.000-04:002020-08-29T20:14:01.074-04:00Upcoming Screenings Online/Week of August 30th<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>At Home With Mike Kelley: Day Is Done </b>(2005/2006)<br />
Mike Kelley Foundation and Electronic Arts Intermix/<a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/7490180/">Online Film + Streaming Talk</a><br />
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white;">Fantasia Film Festival hosted by Film Fatales/<a href="https://fantasiafestival.com/en/special-events/film-fatales-presents-genre-film-as-political-and-social-commentary">Zoom Webinar</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white;">Genre cinema is generally described as films that deal with a specific set of expectations, an outline of who and what will unfold onscreen eases one into a nostalgia coma (think: most Westerns have a gunslinger. And a horse.). Genres often have a set of symbols whose meaning is maintained across films (the cowboy = freedom, the gun = power, the damsel in distress = generalized misogyny). But, sometimes a genre film will subvert stereotypes or play upon its expectations. One of my personal favorite examples of this is the grossly underlooked feminist rape-revenge, Indonesian Western <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTuAVGhmgto">Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts</a>-- and yes, there are horses! Genre film can take on huge issues and wrap them in a warm familiar blanket making the questioning of oppressive and suppressive norms feel socially acceptable. <a href="https://fantasiafestival.com/en/">Fantasia Film Festival</a> is a genre film fest and, in conjunction with the filmmaker's collective<a href="http://www.filmfatales.org/"> Film Fatales</a>, a stellar group of women horror directors (including <a href="https://thejenniferreeder.com/">Jennifer Reeder </a>image above and <a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/news/macao-laos-mattie-do-long-walk-asian-horror-film-1203432063/">Mattie Do</a> image below) will hold an online discussion exploring the power of the genre film. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.sinsinvalid.org/mission">Sins Invalid </a>was established in 2006 and is a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.02em; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ/gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Led by disabled people of color, Sins Invalid’s performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body, developing provocative work where paradigms of 'normal' and 'sexy' are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all bodies and communities." This event will screen a documentary about the group followed by a discussion with some of the performers. A range of topics will be covered in the conversation including climate chaos and the politics of disposibility-- the latter something that has been on my mind a lot lately as Covid-19 ravages from so many different angles of physicality (human, medical, economic, environmental). </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5RhZTZtMsc/X0rVB3mJn9I/AAAAAAAAGlw/LM0Wx25ahmME1Dv6nFEQ_GZEYrA5MMqUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/MV5BMTgzNTk2MDMxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjA2NjgzNTM%2540._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1012" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k5RhZTZtMsc/X0rVB3mJn9I/AAAAAAAAGlw/LM0Wx25ahmME1Dv6nFEQ_GZEYrA5MMqUwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/MV5BMTgzNTk2MDMxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjA2NjgzNTM%2540._V1_.jpg" width="215" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Soul! was a variety television show that aired on PBS in the late 60s, early 70s. The host was Ellis Haizlip, the first Black producer of WNET and the Uncle of the director of the film </span></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Soul! (2018). T</span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">he amount of talent that came across Haizlip's stage is staggering. Toni Morrison made her debut here. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was cornered by the host on some of his beliefs. James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, Betty Shabazz-- e</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ven Earth, Wind & Fire!--</span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> all made appearances on this iconic show. The film, which is available to rent online via the <a href="https://www.portlandmuseum.org/filmscreenings/mr-soul">Portland Museum of Art's website</a>, is a fast-paced ride through its history and impact, its expression of the multitudes of Black culture a pure and vital thing celebrated through the work of the tv show and also through this film & talk. The lineup for this live discussion event is pretty damn stellar, featuring filmmaker Melissa Haizlip, musician/writer/storyteller/King of the Buskers </span><a href="http://www.therealsamueljames.com/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 163, 173, 0.3); font-family: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; transition: all 0.15s ease-out 0s, all 0.15s ease-out 0s; white-space: pre-wrap;">Samuel James</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://soniasanchez.net/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 163, 173, 0.3); font-family: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; transition: all 0.15s ease-out 0s, all 0.15s ease-out 0s; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Sonia Sanchez</a><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the Poet Laureate of Philadelphia), </span><a href="https://www.kepplerspeakers.com/speakers/felipe-luciano" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 163, 173, 0.3); font-family: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; transition: all 0.15s ease-out 0s, all 0.15s ease-out 0s; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Felipe Luciano</a><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Poets">The Last Poets</a> & <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Lords">The Young Lords Party</a>), and </span><a href="https://2leafpress.org/online/team/abiodun-oyewole/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 163, 173, 0.3); font-family: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-bottom: 0.05em; transition: all 0.15s ease-out 0s, all 0.15s ease-out 0s; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Abiodun Oyewole </a><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">(The Last Poets). </span><br />
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Film Forum at Home/<a href="https://filmforum.org/events/event/live-virtual-qa-with-werner-herzog">Live Q&A via Youtube</a><br />
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Who doesn't want to hear the stern philosophical musings of Werner Herzog? His thick German accent punishing your inadequacies or questioning your motivations? I once heard him say the word "butterfingers" in a Q&A and it felt like some sort of soul-piercing critique of humanity and lust. He. is. a. legend. This Q&A is in conjunction with Film Forum's screenings of Herzog's latest <a href="https://filmforum.org/film/nomad-in-the-footsteps-of-bruce-chatwin">Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin</a> (2019). In the film, Herzog embarks on a journey following his late friend Bruce Chatwin who, on his deathbed, gifted Herzog his rucksack, well-worn from his life as a travel writer, journalist and novelist. Sheffield born, Chatwin traveled to far flung places such as Patagonia and the hinterlands of Australia. His death was a complicated affair, secretly suffering from AIDS and other ailments, his sexuality obscured, his diagnosis deflected (including increasingly tall tales as to how he fell ill on his adventures, one of which included contracting a fungus in a bat cave). Chatwin is the ultimate Herzog-ian anti-hero: an unfinished end, a fierce passion, a mortal anguish turned into rebirth and immortalization through film.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Note: I'm disappointed now that museums are beginning to open in-person that online content is already starting to wane. I was excited to see so many big-name art institutions move online, it felt like a physical barrier had been broken, a small step towards dissolving some of the inherent elitist boundaries that plague access to the art/film worlds (well, for those with access to internet. And other technology.-- side-eye world, side. eye.). Sharing is caring. And also the dissolution of oppressive hierarchies that create structural inequality. :)</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A series of 190 second short films from 14 filmmakers in response to Covid-19. The lineup captures the early ache of the pandemic with a mix of claustrophobia, clawing anxiety, trippy night terrors, windows & screens frames to the world, the collective turning inward followed by an outward expression of pain and protest. Each vision is highly individual but shares in the creepy commonality of an unprecedented real-life horror film invisibly unfolding in the world outside. The films are presented in one long stream with no credits separating them adding to the sense of endless, existential dread as days bleed into one another, the calendar a formless blob as lives are flattened out into a strange, forced simulacra-- great curation!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">To celebrate the Metropolitan Museum of Arts' 50th Anniversary they have been reaching into their video vaults each month to present a handful of work, a huge range of work from process videos, to archival memories, to full-on video art pieces. One of this week's additions is Shorelines (1977) by <a href="https://thekidshouldseethis.com/?s=al+jarnow">Al Jarnow</a>, an experimental, animated trip to the sea in which shells and rocks and sand and seaweed flicker onscreen, dancing in a frame-by-frame ballet that makes me long for the Summer days of dense wet sand under my feet, when my only fear was of sunburn and riptide (not maskless humans <a href="https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/07/huge-crowds-at-jersey-shore-beaches-like-playing-with-fire-for-coronavirus-spread-murphy-says.html">shoulder to shoulder spreading droplets</a>). While exploring this trove of films I got swept up in a piano player speaking on his creation of a score for a silent film, a film from 1972 that documented educational experimental-happening-performance-art visits from area children and also a film from 1926 titled The Pottery Maker, a beautiful, delicate black and white journey around the potter's wheel. Lots of treasures! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, teenagers are all image-makers now. But, what sets this exhibition apart from Instagram and TikTok is the intention. This exhibition of high school and GED photographers is part of the <a href="https://studiomuseum.org/">Studio Museum of Harlem</a>'s Expanding the Walls program that is about "yearning and reaching to a new moment." It sees past the immediate present and focuses more on the connectivity inherent in image-making, the shared experience of exhibition, the world as it exists on two sides of the lens, the long tradition of photography-- technique and history. The program is deeply rooted in the archives of Harlem Renaissance photographer <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/artist/james-vanderzee-6593">James VanDerZee</a> whose work acted as a document of early 20th Century Harlem but also as a collaborative expression of cultural and personal identities. The end result of the Expanding the Walls program culminates in a group show, this year being presented online with the theme Hearts in Isolation. Seeing art that thinks twice before snapping with an understanding that images exist beyond today's (this hour's? minute's) feed, imbues these images with a sense of hope and pause, a future beyond the current competing crises and the 24-hr digital image cycle.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: inherit;"><b>Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story</b> with <a href="https://au.linkedin.com/in/christinefblack/fi">Dr. C.F. Black</a>, <a href="https://amaararaheem.wordpress.com/author/amaararaheem/">Amaara Raheem</a> & <a href="http://www.caitlinfranzmann.com/news.html" target="_blank">Caitlin Franzmann</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">Ensayos: Passages is part of the New Museum's first Education and Public Engagement <a href="https://www.newmuseum.org/residencies/ensayos-passages-1" target="_blank">online residency </a>program. As stated on their website, <a href="https://ensayostierradelfuego.net/ensayos/intro/" target="_blank">Ensayos</a> is "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f;">a collective research practice initiated on the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego in 2010. Ensayos’ issue-based research methodologies arise from archipelagic delirium and are characterized by their sensuality and precariousness...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f;">Understanding environmental change requires sound science, while making choices about earth stewardship involves ethics, aesthetics and critical geopolitical perspectives." Their work and practice</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f;"> are pressing urgently on the present, it is reassuring to know that a team of cross-disciplinary researchers are out in the universe charting the interdependence of it all with rigor, beauty and an eye towards the future. In this online event, plants, rocks and insects native to the <a href="https://www.karawatha.com/history.htm" target="_blank">Karawatha forest</a> in Australia grace a set of <a href="https://www.gaia.com/article/how-to-use-divination-cards" target="_blank">divination cards</a>. These cards will inspire guided movement while the human/natural connection of the images are explored through words, drawing upon the audience to respond and follow in various ways-- the digital setting another rich layer to everyday bio-cultural interrelations so often overlooked. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #262626;">100 artists, activists, scholars and thinkers were asked to respond to the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the addition to the Constitution that granted women the right to vote. This landmark celebration is filled with renewed meaning in the wake of Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter, issues that are woven into the participants' responses. Hosted by New School professor <a href="https://www.newschool.edu/milano/faculty/maya-wiley/" target="_blank">(and much more!) Maya Wiley</a>, this online program presents a short film from filmmaker </span></span><a href="https://sholalynch.com/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Shola Lynch</a> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #262626;">(Director of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh49nbTq268" target="_blank">FREE ANGELA & All Political Prisoners</a>), and also</span> a portrait of </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">100 Indigenous Women of the Americas</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> by Indigenous technologist/artist <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kaxhyek/" target="_blank">Joselyn Kaxhyek Borrero</a></span> & </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kasike (chief) of the Guainía Taíno tribal community,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.mukaro.net/" target="_blank">Roberto Borrero</a>. In addition, as part of this virtual watch party, special guest appearances and a sneak peak of contributions from others will be revealed, including </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">actress & activist <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantoo_Cardinal" target="_blank">Tantoo Cardinal</a></span>, poet <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rita-dove" target="_blank">Rita Dove</a>, author/writer</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.thetemper.com/author/catherine-gray/" target="_blank">Catherine Gray</a></span>, and actress/model/creative/activist <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/iamjarijones/?hl=en" target="_blank">Jari Jones</a>.</span></span><b style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The complete 100 Years | 100 Women project will be available via a digital archive that will launch following this online, live event (Side Note: I can't wait to see <a href="https://debwillisphoto.com/home.html" target="_blank">Deborah Willis'</a> piece!)<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">O! A rare conversation with a real live translator! The power of the translator has always been of interest to me. The meaning of every foreign film I've ever watched can change drastically based on the simplest of decisions gracing the bottom of the screen, even more so in literature without the image to guide. Translation has always felt immediate, mutable and alive but it can also be a monolithic thing: there can be huge historical implications for simply using the wrong word. Translators across media are powerful conduits and artists in their own right, a fact that Issue. no. 233 of The Paris Review, The Art of Translation, makes very clear. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Katrina Dodson is a t</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">ranslator and professor in the graduate writing program of Columbia University. Her work is comprised of translations from Portuguese of <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-true-glamour-of-clarice-lispector" target="_blank">Clarice Lispector</a>'s The Complete Stories and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_de_Andrade" target="_blank">Mário de Andrade's</a> Macunaí</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">ma, The Hero With No Character. Dodson will also be adapting her own translation journal from her time on Lispector, a fascinating look at personal process that I can't wait to read (if it is available in English. Or verrrry elementary French). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />Founded in 2012, BlackStar Film Festival takes place annually in Philadelphia. The fest focuses on the stories of Black, Brown and Indigenous people from around the world, presenting films, panels and parties that celebrate visual and storytelling traditions. The lineup for this festival never disappoints featuring a slate of visionary emerging filmmakers but also showcasing established voices, conversing on the state of contemporary creativity and society. The festival will take place online with a few films screened live at the Philly Drive-In in conjunction with the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Department. My personal calendar includes documentary features <a href="https://www.blackstarfest.org/throughthenight_tamalesytunas/" target="_blank">Through The Night</a> (about a 24-hr daycare) & <a href="https://www.blackstarfest.org/codedbias/" target="_blank">Coded Bias</a> (which explores the racial bias found in facial recognition algorithms) and also the panels <a href="https://www.blackstarfest.org/schedule/" target="_blank">Nonfiction Vernacular and Collaboration</a> (a look into the ongoing movement to #decolonize documentaries & how this is/can be accomplished) and <a href="https://www.blackstarfest.org/troublingtheframe/" target="_blank">Troubling the Frame, Troubling the Terrain</a> (a look at aesthetic, practical and ethical concerns found at the borders of geopolitics and film). I've never been able to make it out to this superbly programmed fest so it going online makes it a do not miss!<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4RX6blcUOY/XzbktDxbRnI/AAAAAAAAGiE/g7vsOgqHV3YAhnp_3o8CVHgD7Og8-lWPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s835/bsff20poster_rgb-540x835.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="835" height="518" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4RX6blcUOY/XzbktDxbRnI/AAAAAAAAGiE/g7vsOgqHV3YAhnp_3o8CVHgD7Og8-lWPQCLcBGAsYHQ/w800-h518/bsff20poster_rgb-540x835.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think the first time I encountered Animation Block Party was as part of a <a href="https://rooftopfilms.com/" target="_blank">Rooftop Films </a>screening, packed shoulder to shoulder somewhere high above the New York Streets on a muggy, cloudy night. Luckily, this year anyone anywhere can view most of the fest's lineup online at home! Animation Block Party always combines a broad array of styles (from hand-drawn to computer-generated) and genres (from Animation for the Kids to Experimental, Graphic Design & Music Videos) but it also illustrates a wondrous, eclectic global lineup steeped in long, storied, culturally specific traditions of the art form. This year's</span> opening night will commence with a Picture This! LIVE party with live comedy and live drawing! Though one can't exactly re-create the experience of BAM or Rooftop films at home, the fest does a Saturday night 16mm tele-stream from <a href="https://twitter.com/cartoonsonfilm" target="_blank">Cartoons on Film</a>, a broadcast of uniquely New York classic animations from the early 20th Century to give you your NY fix! <span style="font-family: inherit;">Please reference their </span><a href="https://www.animationblock.com/summerfest2020?fbclid=IwAR3316Ty4GnTjkcqXwHnsszecy1-hnZdewMJNIJadD06N5snIt2mu5xXx9Q#SATURDAY" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">day-by-day </a><span style="font-family: inherit;">program for date, time, event & viewing specifics! </span></div>
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<b>The Magical Negro-Online Discussion</b> with <a href="http://www.naimaramoschapman.com/?fbclid=IwAR2r0UzVdqcrqxulI5zgtPw3X9E5zIeXljASK7hPcDpXVJq7yn-N34cz_po">Naima Ramos-Chapman</a><br />
<a href="https://www.color-positive.com/">Color Positive</a>/Discussion, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/colorpositiveco/?hl=en">Instagram Live </a><br />
August 9, 2020/9pmET/Free<br />
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Naima Ramos-Chapman's short film debut <a href="https://vimeo.com/235265560">And Nothing Happened</a> (2016) is a singular film. Its tone and the depths it explores in its short 15minute runtime are incomparable-- just watch it, don't make me try to explain its utterly astounding, surreal beauty and pain. Since that film Ramos-Chapman has been pretty busy: she's made other shorts, music videos, was part of the <a href="https://www.bricartsmedia.org/tv-shows-videos/bric-tv">Bric TV</a> series Brooklyn Is Masquerading as the World, was part of HBO's Random Acts of Flyness and, most recently, seems to have had something to do with the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CDlhaQzDbUo/">Louis Vuitton/Virgil Abloh</a> show (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgIiFROWQc">that show though</a>, let's talk)? There is a long tradition of women in experimental film coming from the world of dance (<a href="https://vimeo.com/218042283">Maya Deren!</a>) and it is obvious in Ramos-Chapman's work as a deep sense of time, space and body sit on the edge of every cut and shot. Also, I don't know why <a href="https://shadowandact.com/how-to-make-love-to-a-black-woman-pilot-produced-by-lena-waithe-not-moving-forward-at-showtime">Showtime isn't moving forward</a> with How to Make Love To A Black Woman (Who May Be Working Through Some Sh*t) (Exec Produced by Lena Waithe, written by<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Casallina “Cathy” Kisakye w/a Ramos-Chapman directed pilot) but: that is a mistake. </span></span><br />
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<b>Film at Lincoln Center Talks-Virtual</b> with Amy Seimentz<br />
Film at Lincoln Center presented by HBO/<a href="https://www.filmlinc.org/events/free-talk-amy-seimetz-on-she-dies-tomorrow/">Online Talk</a><br />
August 11, 2020/5pm ET/Free, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Submit questions via Twitter or Instagram before + </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">during #AskFLC</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amy Seimentz is an exceptional actress whose name listed in a project's credits always validates the work, she tends to steal the scene even with the tiniest of roles. Seimentz is also a director with such projects as her feature directorial debut <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy4Hs0ryNpo">Sun Don't Shine</a> (2012) and her television directorial debut <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2F4Drc15fM">The Girlfriend Experience</a> (an anthology based on Steven Soderbergh's film of the same name). Her latest offering, the psychological thriller <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcMFjCPkP3M">She Dies Tomorrow</a> starring equally as prolific actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Lyn_Sheil">Kate Lyn Sheil</a>, is being touted as the perfect movie for the times. The film revolves around a contagious omen that convinces its host of their impending death, a chain reaction of doom that feels all too familiar right now. This conversation is part of Film at Lincoln Centers' free Talk series which, like most of the film world has gone virtual. She Dies Tomorrow is currently available on-demand through <a href="https://neonrated.com/films/she-dies-tomorrow">Neon</a>.</span></span><br />
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<b>At Home With Mike Kelley: Kappa</b> (1986) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Kelley_(artist)">Mike Kelley</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_and_Norman_Yonemoto">Bruce + Norman Yonemoto </a><br />
Electronic Arts intermix & the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts/ <a href="http://www.eai.org/public-programs/296">Online Screening </a>+ Conversation with Curator Andrea Lissoni and Artist Bruce Yonemoto<br />
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The images and descriptions of this one are creepy af. Mike Kelley plays the mythic amphibious Japanese imp <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(folklore)">Kappa </a>(who legend has it is known for love of cucumbers, sumo...and organ-stealing anal play?) while his co-star, Warhol & Corman fave <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Woronov">Mary Woronov</a>, plays Hollywood exploitation vamp Jocosta. Their characters</span></span> swirl through narrative archetypes and sexualities, reciting dialogue pulled from Freud, <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Buñuel, pop culture and other sources as they play out th</span></span>e myth of Oedipus siphoned through a Japanese folk story and modern film iconography. The end result sounds like an eerie collage full of symbol swapping, myth-playing and psycho-sexual channel surfing. Following the screening of the film artist Bruce Yonemoto and <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst, Munich</span> Andrea Lossini will host a conversation. <span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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Freize Sessions is an online discussion series that consists of the magazine's editors and writers speaking on films, books and music. Attendees are encouraged to send in questions ahead of time for the panel of guests to respond to. This session focuses on Michaela Coel's episodic I May Destroy You. The show takes place in London where Arabella, a social-media-famous author thanks to her debut novel Chronicles of a Fed-Up Millennial, pieces together her hazy memories of a harrowing night out with friends. I just began the series and I don't want spoilers so I'm staying away from the internet to learn more about the show (the plot and production) but, what I do know, is that Coel, the show's writer, co-director & star, has managed to perfectly portray a sense of trauma and millennial-angst a mix of human, digital and social issues melding into one's perception and memory. <a href="https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a33404980/i-may-destroy-you-soundtrack/">It also has a great soundtrack.</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Theotokópoulos aka El Greco aka The Greek aka The Hustler (okay, that last one is mine) was born in Crete in 1541. His career is one that seems to confuse art historians as he traversed a lot of boundaries. He worked tirelessly to gain patronage and excel at his craft, moving around Greece, Italy and Spain and through artistic traditions such as Byzantine iconography and Italian Renaissance. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 0.18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">The Art Institute Chicago's exhibit El Greco: Ambition and Defiance is on display at the museum featuring over 57 works from around the world. As part of the exhibit Rebecca Long, Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture will discuss El Greco's unrelenting pursuit of fame and his </span><span style="color: #202122;">unique, confounding style.</span></span></span><br />
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<b>MoMA Virtual Views: Film Vault Summer Camp </b>with Curator Rajendra Roy & Director Todd Haynes<br />
MoMA/<a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6692">Live Q&A</a> + <a href="https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/400">Online Screenings</a><br />
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The MoMA Film Study Center is a resource for film scholars and researchers, hosting around 200 appointments a year for those in need of their vast archive. But, due to the pandemic, in-person interactions are hampered so, to counteract the state of things, MoMA is opening their film vault to the public online! Each Thursday in August a selection of materials will be available to screen online-- the access that Covid is bringing about never ceases to amaze me! On August 13th, MoMA Film Curator <a href="https://www.moma.org/about/senior-staff/rajendra-roy">Rajendra Roy</a> will be joined by auteur <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001331/">Todd Haynes</a> to look into the ways in which restored and archival material can inspire filmmakers, a fact so evident in Haynes lush period pieces like Carol (2015) set in the pastel shadows of 1950s New York and Velvet Goldmine (1998) set in the illustrious shimmer of 70s glam.<br />
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<b>Guggenheim- Summer of Know: For Freedoms</b> featuring <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2b292b;">Eric Gottesman, Hank Willis Thomas, Michelle Woo & </span><span style="color: #2b292b;">Claudia Peña</span></span><br />
Guggenheim/<a href="https://www.guggenheim.org/event/summer-of-know-for-freedoms">Online Conversation</a><br />
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<a href="https://forfreedoms.org/">For Freedoms </a>was <span style="color: #2b292b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">founded by artists/thinkers </span></span><span style="color: #2b292b;"><a href="https://ericgottesman.net/">Eric Gottesman</a>, <a href="https://www.hankwillisthomas.com/">Hank Willis Thomas</a>, and Michelle Woo</span><span style="color: #2b292b;"> in 2016</span><span style="color: #2b292b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and is a platform "for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action...As a nexus between art, politics, commerce, and education, the platform aims to inject the anti-partisan critical thinking that fine art requires into the political landscape through programming, exhibitions, and public artworks." Guggenheim's Summer of Know conversation series looks to process contemporary issues through the lens of art, For Freedoms are co-curators for the 2020 edition. These Guggenheim hosted conversations are designed to "</span></span><span style="color: #2b292b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">spark cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate, these discussions feature contemporary artists, practitioners, and thought leaders who are at the forefront of the ideas, organizing, and actions most urgently impacting society and culture today." This is the inaugural event of the 2020 series and will be livestreamed via the Guggenheim's Youtube channel. </span></span><br />
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Mimesis Documentary Festival, Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media & Flaherty/Online Screening + Q&As<br />
<a href="https://www.mimesisfestival.org/flaherty-x-boulder">Festival Screenings August 12-18, 2020/$10 per program, fest pass $25</a><br />
<a href="https://www.mimesisfestival.org/2020-live-events">Live Q+As August 14, 2020/6-6:40pm + 7-7:40pm MT</a><br />
<a href="https://www.mimesisfestival.org/2020-live-events">Live Q+As August 15, 2020/10-10:40am + 11-11:40amMT</a><br />
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A new initiative from the documentary media arts organization The Flaherty and the University of Colorado Boulder (home to the<a href="https://www.colorado.edu/center/cdem/"> Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media</a> and also the <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/brakhagecenter/">Brakhage Center</a>-- wth is up with Boulder?) called Flaherty x Boulder (F x B) will hold its premier event this week at the <a href="https://www.mimesisfestival.org/">Mimesis Documentary Festival</a>. Two film programs will feature line ups of films culled from the 66-year history of the Flaherty Film Seminar, expertly curated by Flaherty NYC Programmers-in-Residence <span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Devon Narine-Singh, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Alia Ayman. The shorts blocks are titled Unwriting the Disaster and are themed around the question of how documentary approaches the crises of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111;">cultural turning points</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit;">. In times of conflict or upheaval, nonfiction filmmakers could so easily be drawn to the flames but, as evident in these online programs, there are many ways to process, create, inhabit, rebirth and inscribe the seemingly catastrophic.</span><br />
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<b>Chez Jolie Coiffure</b> (2018) by Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam</div>
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In the Brussels district of Motange, Sabine runs a hair salon. Like most hair salons, her space is a hub of friendship, gossip, and support, in this case, solidified by the shared migrant experience of Sabine and much of her clientele. In this cinema-verite chamber film, the director observes but is also brought into the fold of the space, filming for a year through many lash extensions and immigration rumors while also processing her own ex-pat status as a Cameroonian woman in Belgium. The complicated relationship with homeland and home unfold as many other forces tug at the lives of the women within. The othering of the migrant experience is also captured as tourists and locals gawk through the window of the salon, cultures in flux from both sides of the glass.<br />
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white;">This group of short and feature on-demand films thinks about the future. After all of the falls, the sinking, the collapsing: what will rise? These docs range in form but seem to favor boundary-pushing styles, a curatorial choice that takes advantage of the online streaming scene as seated, ticketed theaters aren't easily able to accommodate non-traditional film lengths and aesthetic risk-taking. These films offer speculative futures through experimental means using modes like science fiction and archival manipulation to predict <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY">the end of world as we know it </a>and the beginning of a brave new one. On August 4th, a live Q+A will take place with some of the line-up's filmmakers,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="yui_3_17_2_1_1596422344282_495" style="background-color: #fbfbfb; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicole Macdonald (A Park for Detroit), Hannah Jayanti (Truth or Consequences), G. Anthony Svatek (.TV), Christina Battle (Bad Stars and Water Once Ruled) and Zack Khalil (INAAT/SE)</span><span style="background-color: white; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #262626;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<b>Arakimentari </b>(2005) by Travis Klose presented by <a href="http://www.khalikallah.com/">Khalik Allah</a><br />
Maysles Documentary Center/<a href="https://www.maysles.org/calendar/2020/7/22/under-the-influence-of-khalik-allah-arakimentari">Online Feature Film Screening, Under the Influence Series</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also at The Maysles Documentary Center, a new online series has been launched called Under the Influence, a series that looks to documentarians and other figures to learn about what they find inspiring. In this installation, photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah presents the 2005 film Arakimentari, a portrait of Japanese photographer <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nobuyoshi Araki. Araki remains a controversial figure due to his erotic flair (and his predilection towards abusive/exploitative studio practice).</span></span><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Though probably best known for his more pornographic tendencies, Araki's bold visions move beyond this realm an aspect that this doc seems to cover in detail. Though I'm not familiar with this film or subject, Khalik Allah's work is something I do know about, a deft, deep eye capturing a fearless essence in <a href="http://www.khalikallah.com/">his photographs and documentaries</a>, check out his work too. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hosted by <a href="https://bavc.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpZT5BRCdARIsAGEX0zkPK6tj3fFNFye-gjTFifwigR--mDs3tVXvS1XqshF49zKpNfQTgdMaAvT8EALw_wcB">Bay Area Video Coalition</a> &<a href="http://www.vsw.org/"> VSW</a>/ Screening, Q&A + Zoom karaoke</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine an internet world prior to data being oil (or whatever)? A place where websites were limited to the abilities of html & css (or something)? Back in 2013/14 p</span><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ioneering digital artist Cory Arcangel did a project where he slowly explored corporate websites, recording his desktop deep-surfs. </span><span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The project brings up all kinds of deep (web) thoughts on the early formation of digital identity, the idea of corporations as human-digital beings, the complications of archiving a fleeting medium and a lot more. To accompany this screening of Arcangel's archeologic dig through Subway sandwich shop's website, the artist will take part in a Q&A moderated by critic, programmer and co-founder of <a href="http://www.lightindustry.org/">Light Industry</a>, <a href="http://edhalter.com/">Ed Halter</a>. This post is not sponsored by Subway. In fact, the smell of Subway bread has always made me a little nauseous. </span><br />
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