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Surveillance Teach-In
Via wnyc.org
Apr 2012
Laura Poitras, part of a surveillance teach-in at the Whitney Friday night, tells WNYC how she’s been detained dozens of times by US customs officials while making documentaries about “the suspension of the rule of law in the ‘war on terror.’”
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Cage Does Cage
Via youtu.be
Apr 2012
Here’s 4 minutes 33 seconds worth of clips of a non-speaking Nicholas Cage in which only ambient noises are audible. Created by Adam Lucas, Cage Does Cage is an homage to John Cage’s 1952 conceptual art piece 4’33”, performed by the Ghostrider star.
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Cannes 2012 Lineup
Via indiewire.com
Apr 2012
Just released, the Cannes 2012 lineup— “perhaps its best in years,” writes Oliver Lyttelton—includes Michael Haneke’s Amour, Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, and Walter Salles’ On the Road, among others.
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The Demise of 35mm?
Via laweekly.com
Apr 2012
Celluloid is no longer the world’s top movie-projector technology, and by year’s end the majority of cinemas are expected to switch to digital projection, a fact that has directors like Christopher Nolan (Memento) fearing for the fate of elegant, costly 35mm film.
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Arts Rebound
Via artsusa.org
Apr 2012
After hitting an all-time low in 2009, the vitality of the arts industry, as measured by the newest National Arts Index, is rebounding. While funding remains a concern, “half of the 83 indicators used to tabulate the Index score increased” in the latest reporting period.
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Merce’s Ocean
Via nytimes.com
Apr 2012
When Merce Cunningham’s dance company performed the choreographer’s magnum opus in a Minnesota quarry in 2008, filmmaker Charles Atlas was there. His Ocean, which captures the Walker co-production in vivid detail, screens this week as part of the Whitney Biennial.
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NEA to Cut PBS Funding
Via nytimes.com
Apr 2012
The National Endowment for the Arts is proposing major funding cuts for arts and documentary programming. The $1 million reduction in federal funds will affect the Peabody-winning show Art:21, plus POV, Independent Lens, and others.
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Badgered at the Border
Via salon.com
Apr 2012
Filmmaker/2012 Whitney Biennial artist Laura Poitras’ subject matter—how the War on Terror plays out on US soil—has caused her problems when traveling: She’s repeatedly detained and interrogated by customs officials, although she’s suspected of no crime.
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Helping Harper
Via pbs.org
Apr 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird—made into the lauded film that turns 50 this year—might not have been written were it not for Joy and Michael Brown. In 1956, they gave Harper Lee a Christmas gift so she could take a “year off from your job to write whatever you please.”