Category Archives: documentary
New Doc: William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Premiering at Slamdance January 22 is Yony Leyser’s Burroughs doc, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within:
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Burroughs interviewed by Kathy Acker
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Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno
A documentary by archivist/restorationists Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea, culled from 15 hours of footage from Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film L’enfer. Cannot wait to see this.
Trailer:
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The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw—
The 57-year-old director of Les Diaboliques [...]
Monday: Visual Stimulus
Dimitre Lima’s MTV Brazil IDs using Processing. Cool stuff at his site, too.
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Trailer for awesome Julius Shulman Doc, Visual Acoustics, The Modernism of Julius Shulman.
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Online Viewing: Cosmos
Kottke notes that all the eps. of Carl Sagan’s landmark Cosmos series have been added to Hulu. It doesn’t get awesomer.
Hulu Adding Indie-Doc Section
Via Broadcasting and Cable.
Hulu is planning a new section of the site dedicated to documentary programming. The section will feature documentary films as well as short form content.
… it will help the NBC Universal-News Corp. joint venture form relationships with independent filmmakers and studios, which could become a valuable source of content down the line.
William Eggleston @ The Whitney
Michael Almereyda (William Eggleston and the Real World [2005]) shot this interview/doc with Eggleston at the opening of his recent retrospective at The Whitney, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008.
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Thursday Audio-Visual Brain Stimulus
Eric Archer’s Sound Cameras. Film cameras modified to transform light to audio. Recordings here.
Charles Coen playing the Buchla Music Easel
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This video features sound artist Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970’s Buchla Music Easel. This [...]
Hillman Curtis Artist Series
Great series of short artist docs by Hillman Curtis. Inspirational in content and form.
Mark Romanek
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Milton Glaser
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Online Viewing: Hoopeston
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Hoopeston, Illinois was founded by Thomas Hoopes in 1871. Originally a small farming community, the town grew into a canning powerhouse by the 1950s. It became known as the “Sweet Corn Capital of the [...]
My Probably Incomplete SXSW Documentary Hitlist
American Prince (Dir: Tommy Pallotta)
After being forgotten for 30 years, filmmaker Tommy Pallotta revisits Scorcese’s lost documentary “American Boy” and its raconteur subject, Steven Prince. (World Premiere)
Objectified (Dir: Gary Hustwit)
A glimpse into our relationship to manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. (World Premiere)
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