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• Maybe We Should Have Made That Doc

  *BB: Speaking of professors, can you tell me about the inspiration for writing Nancy? * CC: One of our professors in film school—Nick Proferes—was the DP on this amazing film from the ’70s called Wanda (1970), which was written,...

• Maybe We Should Have Made That Doc

  *BB: Did you write the script in terms of shots? * CC: I don’t write in terms of shots. I just can’t think about that until it’s done....

• 1700 films, 1000 people, and 150 clubs: a not-so-Amateur Movie Database

  With the growth of the amateur film market came the rise of an international amateur cinema culture embodied in magazines, amateur movie contests, and organizations or clubs.⁴The first...

• Less Grey

  *TS: What are the challenges in trying to shape a narrative at a feature length vs. something shorter, like a short film or music video? Do you feel like...

• Lorenza Mazzetti: Free

  Despite a childhood punctuated by war and murder, Lorenza has had major exhibitions of paintings in Israel, France, and Germany. In the 1950s, she co-founded Free Cinema, a film...

• Lorenza Mazzetti: Free

  The idea behind Free Cinema became official in February 1956, one month after Lorenza finished making Together. She was heartbroken, but she still had her friends, a colourful group...

• Beyond Social Fact in Susan Hiller's PSI GIRLS

  Hiller said to Tillman, “Psi Girls deals with this sort of obsession with special powers of some human beings, in this case, of girls—now that’s a social fact.”⁴ Once a...

• Beyond Social Fact in Susan Hiller's PSI GIRLS

  In the period between visiting the exhibition and writing this text—a fairly truncated timeline—I encountered two very recent examples of mainstream popular culture that seem to depart from this...

• Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces

  The rise of the female perspective in Western film with the pioneer woman trope intended to work against idealized portrayals of settlement life often found in art made...

• Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces

  Ultimately, the film tells a coming of age story that is also a rebuke of rural life, where the farm is a source of violence and repression, while...