Thursday, January 20, 2011

Your Last Ten Days to Catch Elisabeth Subrin's Shulie at the Jewish Museum

At the L:

“Photography evades us,” wrote Roland Barthes, “What the Photograph produces to infinity has occurred only once; the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.” And the same could be said of cinema...

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Zoom Out, Pan Around

At Moving Image Source:

In "Rendering Outside the Frame: Film Performance and Installation Art," Scott Stark remembers the San Francisco Art Institute in the 1980s as a time when:

The film department paid attention to film history and film aesthetics, but it was rare for a film teacher to talk about filmmaking in relation to art history, painting, sculpture, and performance art...

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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Moments of 2010

A critic's poll, at Moving Image Source:

Animated gifs constitute one of the richest genres of what's been called digital folk culture; the store of home-brewed, computer-based creative work that, like traditional folk culture...

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