What is a “docuphile”?
A “docuphile” is the lover of all thing documentary. A lover of reality. In essence, a lover of the world that surrounds us. I believe knowing more about the world around us makes us better human...
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What is documentary culture? Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts MFA Program held the conference Codes and Modes: The Character of Documentary Culture the last weekend to unwrap that question. On...
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The State of the Short? (Part 1)
Image: Bob Sascha DOCNYC has expanded their panel lineups this year and I was excited to see that they were devoting a day to short documentaries: “All About the Short.” I’ve been focusing on short...
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Americana: History Viewed Through Artifacts
66 Scenes of America The new Winter/Spring Flaherty NYC series That Obscure Object of Desire , curated by filmmakers Pacho Velez and Sierra Petengill, continues tonight with the Americana program. I...
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Evocative objects: reflecting history, nuance and emotion
“Living in an era defined more by complex systems than by material things, and increasingly mediated by the digital, how are we touched by the objects we can still touch?” These words open the summary...
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What is art good for?
We’re in an age where everything seems to be quantifiable, whether it’s page views or Facebook likes or Twitter shares or how many people showed up for an event.* Or at least there are a lot of people...
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Watching the watchers – how VR can be a participatory experience
This past winter, virtual reality “exploded” at Sundance. VR technology is not new thing, but in the first part of this year it seemed as if every other film-related article was about it. Clouds Over...
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Afghanistan through the (creative) eyes of others
Afghanistan, as a subject, has been crossing my path over the last year – through both my work in the development sector and via various forms of film and writing. We in the west get a pretty limited...
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#Cinelove: 2015’s Memorable Documentary
I’ll dispense with the musings of year’s end, looking back, etc… and cut straight to the point to offer up the most memorable non-fiction films I saw this year. My list cuts a wide spread across...
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#Cinelove: 2018’s most memorable documentaries
Maybe because the world feels so devoid of humanity these days, I found myself falling for quiet films of people who treat others with dignity.In no particular order… Photo: By Then By ThenQuietly...
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