#documentaries
14 Likeys of 2014 continues with Regarding Susan Sontag, currently airing on HBO.
BonusLikeyQuotes:Sontag on art, writing, and life.
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Photos from the collection of Norma and Virginia, featured in the film Lives:Visible.
“While doing background research for my interactive narrative Mixed Greens I met Patrick Gourley. I was looking for old photographs that would help me understand lesbian life in Chicago in the 1950s and early 60s. ‘I have a whole houseful of photos and objects,’ said Patrick. He wasn’t kidding. He had been a friend and caretaker of two elderly lesbians during the last decade of their lives. He showed me a trove of over 2000 snapshots taken by Norma and Virginia from 1939-1975. When I saw the photos I knew I had to make a film about them. Here were images of lovers and friends as they played, posed, worked, partied, drank, and aged. Norma and Virginia had left an amazing historical treasure …
“The photographs haunt me. As a young lesbian I knew women like Norma and Virginia. I was self-righteous and felt contempt for their butch/femme life. They lived in the closet, I proudly didn’t. However, the way Norma and Virginia lived and documented their lives complicates my idea of the closet. Assimilation comes at a price. I live a mainstreamed life in a different world – my partner and I can marry if we choose. We have gained so much, yet I am learning some things were lost. As I came out in the early 70s this community was slipping away, changed forever by second wave Feminism and Stonewall. I won’t let it disappear forever. These lesbian lives and the history they lived are too important.”
— Michelle Citron, filmmaker.
Links:Official Site|Clip 1|Clip 2
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Don’t claim to be a fan of documentaries if you haven’t seen this:
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind DVD Review: Something Very Special
If you aren’t already a fan, this documentary makes the case for what an immense talent he is.
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The Defiant Ones: great for music trivia enthusiasts
Love me some music trivia. One of my most favorite hobbies is watching music documentaries of all types. I like learning little tidbits of gossip about my favorite artists and the stories behind the songs. The Defiant Ones is a new documentary on HBO, telling the stories behind Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine, their record labels (Interscope,…
Documentaries without people: Baltimore, real and virtual, in Rat Film (2018, Theo Anthony, dir.)
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Documentaries without people: Crime scene miniatures in Rat Film (2018, Theo Anthony, dir.)
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Documentaries without people: Baltimore Police training environment, from Rat Film (2018, Theo Anthony, dir.)
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AN EVENING OF FREE FILMS CELEBRATING WALLSEND
Thursday 23rd May 7.30pm
The Anson, Station Road, Wallsend, NE28 8QS
includes screenings of Wallsend 72 & Launch
COME ALONG!
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Alejandra Pizarnik and Antonio Porchia, as quoted in ALEJANDRA (2013), dir. Ernesto Ardito & Virna Molina
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In many ‘Spaghetti Western’ films, a broad sub-genre of American Western films that emerged during the 1960s in the midst of Sergio Leone’s film-making success, many of the vuglar roles Native Americans were hired to act in forced them into offensive portrayals with little attention paid to authenticity, with emphasis only placed on painting them as “simple savages.” As a result, many American filmmakers paid little attention to actually translating the indigenous languages for what they were saying on screen. As a result, many actors were able to say what they really felt.
Reel Injun, Documentary (2009)
it’s on netflix right now for anyone that wants to catch it
This is such a good documentary, guys. I try and convince all my students to watch it. It was made by Neil Diamond, a Cree filmmaker, and it’s an utterly fascinating look at portrayals of indigenous peoples in North American cinema.
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The history of redlining in Baltimore, told through maps in Rat Film (2018, Theo Anthony, dir.)
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to everyone else in school right now:
please use sparknotes. please use khan academy. please listen to school house rock songs and watch the history of the entire world i guessandtim and mobyandbill nye. any documentary you watch in class can be found somewhere online with a quick google. get your books from project gutenbergandz-lib. download textbooks off the internet whenever you can find them. use desmos for a free online graphing calculator. if you’re learning something and you don’t get it look up the wikipedia page on it and put it into simple english to get the gist, then put it back into regular english to get the full story. cheat if you have to. school sucks so bad rn and if you’re like me and you get all your materials secondhand or from the lost and found, online resources are really useful rn; all of the above have helped me pass a class in some way, and i hope they can help you too.
stay inside and stay safe. best of luck to all the students out there.
Some pics from a movie I’m in called Thumb War. You can watch it for free at the link in my bio! ^-^ It’s a mockumentary about professional thumb wrestling hehehe It won the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative at the Portland Film Festival and Best Comedy at Flickfair Film Festival It’ll be showing at the Reedy Reels Film Festival in Greenville, South Carolina June 4th if anyone is local to the area and wants to check it out!
