Literary.NonFiction

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Category: Movies

Alternative Fuels (and living the Miller Highlife)

If you’re a fan of non-fiction film you are probably familiar with the name Errol Morris, director of The Fog of War and Thin Blue Line. I’ve also mentioned that he writes a blog for the New York Times in a previous post.
What most [...]

Jesper Just

When I was in Amsterdam in 2006, I visited the Stedelijik museum of modern art. I was impressed with museum’s special focus on new mediums, especially in the new / multi-media realm, but the exhibit that especially stuck with me wasthis installment in their “Docking Station” series by danish artist Jesper Just.
I’m not typically [...]

Les Concerts a Emporter

I stumbled upon an interesting blog the other day called la Blogotheque. Unfortunately, my french is pretty bad so I can’t really read most of the site BUT, they have a very interesting video podcast called Les Concerts a Emporter or The Take Away Shows. In these shows, the band gives a performance [...]

My Man Ira

Many of you know that one of my heroes and biggest inspirations in life is Ira Glass’ This American Life. Well my man Ira has some insightful words for those of us aspiring to do something with our pidly little aspirations.

My Damn Channel

I started watching these you suck at photoshop videos on youtube recently which led me to www.mydamnchannel.com. I’m really enjoying Wainy Days.

Perception

Meerkats posted about Erroll Morris’ blog about perception and photography at the New York Times.
In the article Morris brings up alot of interesting issues documentary filmmakers and journalists have to consider when telling a story. The crux of Morris’ point is that amid the myriad details conveyed in a scene, how does our mind [...]

24 Hour Film Race Results Announced

The results for the 24 hour film race have been posted. Thanks to everyone who voted. Our film “Did It” received third runner up, not bad for a first time.

I was pretty disappointed to find out that “Broomate” , one of the best films in the competition, was turned it late and so was [...]