Sturm und Drang und Irony

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I don’t really know what they’re about,” my friend remarked, “I just know I really, really like them.” She was voicing a not uncommon reaction to the films and videos of Michael Robinson...

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Bad Filmmaker Makes Bad Film About Good Filmmakers

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The American film avant-garde is in need of an approachable documentary that could make its staggering accomplishments more readily accessible to a wider audience. Or an erudite documentary that could spark discussion among those already in the know...

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Enough with All the 60s Godard!

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I have a friend who jokes, whenever another early Godard film is playing at Film Forum, “When is that series going to be over?”—as if Film Forum were running one continuous series of Godard films from the 60s...

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Dziga Amuck: Daffy Duck and the French New Wave's Marxist Spaghetti Western

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Tonight, Light Industry is having a screening of the Dziga Vertov Group’s Wind from the East with Chuck Jones’s Duck Amuck—the kind of inspired curatorial pairing that sets the mind ablaze...

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Call and Response: The Music Video and The Meme

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The controversy surrounding M.I.A.'s "Born Free" video is a reminder that the music video is proving to be one of the most durable popular art forms of the late 20th/early 21st centuries. In 1985, J. Hoberman wrote, "The music video is the quintessential postmodern form—this week, anyway...

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Evening Land: Just Because Peter Watkins Was Paranoid...

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Tonight at 8, RedChannels presents a rare screening of Peter Watkins’s Evening Land at 92YTribeca. In their program notes, RedChannels says that Watkins was often accused of being paranoid...

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After the Wall Fell Down

At The L Magazine:

According to artist Amie Siegel, her newest film, DDR/DDR, is part of a series of works about "voyeurism, psychoanalysis, memory, surveillance and modernist architecture," as well as "objectivity, authority and performance." Unafraid of big themes or broad gestures...

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