I feel like I could leave the post about St. Clair Bourne up for the rest of the year, and even then feel like it hadn’t stayed on top long enough. But life marches on. The holidays are a time to be grateful for what we have and to resolve to better ourselves in the […]

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Spend Saturday night in beautiful downtown Williamsburg, Brooklyn at UnionDocs. This is a very short notice special screening happening at 8 pm. Jem Cohen asked to do the event before a critical deadline in the NYC regulations on street photography and filmmaking and UnionDocs is serving as a venue for a tour of […]

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One lovely Tuesday evening in Amsterdam during IDFA, I went out to the “boonies” of the city (about a 20 minute walk from the city center) to attend a presentation of the Mediamatic Lab. Tipped off to this open presentation by Joel Heller, three intrepid Americans set off to see what the Dutch design […]

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Ben Niles’ documentary, Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 opens for a two-week run at Film Forum starting this Wednesday, November 7. A couple of days before the film’s theatrical debut, I sat and talked with first-time film director, Niles, and Jim Browne of Argot Pictures. Browne recently came on board […]

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I haven’t yet seen the film, but it seems unanimous that Manufactured Landscapes by Jennifer Baichwal is a stunning film and an apt companion to Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth in illuminating our impact on the Earth. Bright Lights Film Journal has a great interview with the director and Canadian photograph Edward Burtynsky, whose artwork […]

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