news
november 26, 2008
The TIE retrospective has been postponed until January, but the full schedule is up, with an impressive Ithaca showing.
november 9, 2008
July Fix will screen as part of a TIE retrospective at the Ross Media Center in Lincoln, NE on the weekend of November 20. TIE is one of my favorite festivals. Do go if you can.
By the way, that lovely devil's site seems to be down, so here's an image for the election scrap-bookers.
october 8, 2008
Hello Heartlanders and Pacific NW'ers. You can see Lake Affect at ICE in Iowa City and the CINE-X showcase that's part of the 25th Olympia Film Festival. Not to mention other mind-bending, experimental and generally misbehaving works.
september 21, 2008
Some lovely devil made this funny site. It makes me giggle.
setember 2, 2008
Fusion centers have contributed to the RNC repression, as has a transposition of "detainee" from war efforts to domestic abuse of civil liberties. Federal, state and local cooperation have led to preemptive raids, with suspicions of conspiracy to riot mobilized to justify the detainment. One has to wonder how vague this so-called justification to detain has become in recent years. This weekend in the Twin Cities we see an articulate, if blunt, response. MINORITY REPORT IS OUT ON DVD!!! (old news, sure, but now it's pronounced "Vegan Compost"). Over on alternet, a smart analysis of targeting video activists, witnesses and journalists. Around 6pm, a call from NMC that Amy Goodman was arrested/detained, following the intimidation of three other reporters from Democracy Now. Cops bust through an attic to harass I-Witness. What a day, what a kick-off to the week's Grand Ol' Police-state.
august 24, 2008
Microcinema has announced the winners of Independent Exposure 2008, and Lake Affect has turned up on the list of Jury Mentions, as determined by Asthmatic Kitty Records peoples. In other Lake Affect news, I'll be showing it as part of my introduction to the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour at Cornell Cinema on Tuesday, September 9, so stop on by, Ithacans and Central NY'ers.
august 17, 2008
You dont need a penny just to hang around,
But if youve got a nickel, wont you lay your money down?
Over on the corner theres a happy noise.
People come from all around to watch the magic boy.- J. Fogerty
august 13, 2008
The ongoing chilly weather has encouraged not only a web-based archival investigation, but an excavation of files on zip disks. Here is a fine example of an invitation to the Ithaca-based Revolutionary Dance Party. For anyone who wants to throw a RDP, the rules are quite simple. As you see above, everyone must dance, and no one can not dance. Everyone must bring music to share. No one can not bring music to share. Everyone must share a dance move. No one can not share a dance move. We've also discovered that iTunes type software (generally 'flow' based, for passive listening) counter-intuitively encourages hierarchy. To counteract this problem, try sticking to tape cassettes, cds and vinyl. This way, flow is interrupted and the democratic dance floor fluorishes.
august 11, 2008
A burst of autumn-like weather has sent us running for the digital archives. Currently, I'm working on a Wikepedia entry for Thaw, but, for now, all we have is an assortment of cached pages courtesy of the Wayback Machine. Please write me me if you'd like to become involved in this project.
august 6, 2008
Sixty three years ago today, the United States detonated "Little Boy" in Hiroshima, Japan, killing 100,000 citizens. The late Erik Barnouw, documentary scholar and long-time Flaherty Seminar comrade, produced a powerful 16 minute film about the event, Hiroshima-Nagasaki 1945. There's quite a story behind the footage. Originally shot by Japanese filmmaker Akira Iwasaki, the footage was suppressed by the US Government for over 20 years.
july 16, 2008
R.I.P. BRUCE CONNER, YOU WILL BE MISSED IN THIS ALL-TOO SHINY, HAPPY NEOLIBERAL WORLD.
Bruce Conner, Will Shatter: Negative Trend, 1978
july 4, 2008
Back to an altered reality after the Flaherty, truly one of my favorite things in the whole world. Mid-flaherty blogging was new this year, and people chimed in. And the Russians danced every night!
