Members of the film community are coming out of the woodwork to band together and push back on the repression that is anticipated to come out of the incoming Trump administration. From documentarians reaffirming their commitment to exposing hidden truths to narrative filmmakers pledging to combat racism with their work, many are planning a strong response to the 2016 presidential election.
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center assembled some of those voices Wednesday by convening an “urgent conversation” with Film Quarterly entitled “Film & Media in a Time of Repression.” Moderated by Film Quarterly editor and Uc Santa Cruz professor Ruby Rich, the event featured speakers including “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon, blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein and Portugese documentary filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias. Here are some of the highlights from the discussion, which outlined some key points...
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center assembled some of those voices Wednesday by convening an “urgent conversation” with Film Quarterly entitled “Film & Media in a Time of Repression.” Moderated by Film Quarterly editor and Uc Santa Cruz professor Ruby Rich, the event featured speakers including “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon, blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein and Portugese documentary filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias. Here are some of the highlights from the discussion, which outlined some key points...
- 12/16/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
One of the many highlights of the 2015 BlackStar Film Festival was Tneg: An Exploration, in which Director/cinematographer/producer Arthur Jafa ("Daughters of the Dust," "Dreams Are Colder Than Death") and producer/curator Elissa Blount-Moorhead shared work from Tneg, the studio they head in partnership with Director/cinematographer Malik Sayeed. Afterward, they were joined onstage for an provacative discussion moderated by Shatrelle P. Lewis in which Jafa shared insights gained from four decades of creating images. Blount-Moorhead spoke of the vision for the company whose principal aim is the creation of a black cinema “capable of matching the power, beauty and...
- 8/4/2015
- by Michael Dennis
- ShadowAndAct
"In the city, black people are producing modern forms of life," says influential scholar and historian Saidiya Hartman in Arthur Jafa's brilliant docu-poem Dreams Are Colder Than Death. "These emergent formations are only recognizable on their initial appearance as monstrous....There's a history of black anarchism, an everyday practice of revolution against certain forms of property arrangement."
Though it appeared on no major best-of lists last year and only played the festival circuit, Dreams was one of 2014's best and most important films, the only one to unambiguously capture the transitional American and global moment in which we live. Plugged right into the zeitgeist, it's an exploration from the trenches of everything in play within the #BlackLivesMatter ...
Though it appeared on no major best-of lists last year and only played the festival circuit, Dreams was one of 2014's best and most important films, the only one to unambiguously capture the transitional American and global moment in which we live. Plugged right into the zeitgeist, it's an exploration from the trenches of everything in play within the #BlackLivesMatter ...
- 3/25/2015
- Village Voice
Cinematographers Arthur Jafa ("Daughters of the Dust," "Crooklyn," "Dreams Are Colder Than Death," "Florida Water") and Malik Sayeed ("He Got Game," "Belly") have partnered with Baltimore based curator, lecturer and exhibition designer Elissa Blount-Moorhead, to create a new independent film studio and production company, Tneg. The goal, according, to Ms. Blount-Moorhead, is to develop and produce new black independent films, but films that will also “push what we understand to be new black cinema and to create not just new narratives and but also new aesthetics and technical parameters within black cinema." And...
- 11/11/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
The fall festival lineup keeps growing and growing. This morning Tiff beefed up their slate, and now the New York Film Festival is highlighting the titles in their documentary section. And they've got a lot of familiar faces. So, who's unspooling new films? How about Martin Scorsese ("The 50-Year Argument"), Joshua Oppenheimer ("The Look Of Silence"), Albert Maysles ("Iris"), Frederick Wiseman ("National Gallery") and more. It doesn't get much better than that these days in the doc world, and it's hard to argue with a slate heavy on veterans of the genre. The New York Film Festival runs September 26th to October 12th. Dreams Are Colder Than Death (NY Premiere) Arthur Jafa, USA, 2013, Dcp, 52m In this new essay film, filmmaker and cinematographer Arthur Jafa (Daughters of the Dust, Crooklyn) begins with a question: what does it mean to be black in America in the 21st century? He composes the many troubled and troubling answers,...
- 8/19/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The New York Film Festival took some haranguing after announcing the inclusion of only one documentary in their Main Slate a week ago. Rectifying matters is their Spotlight on Documentary lineup, which features new works from Albert Maysles, Les Blank, Frederick Wiseman, Martin Scorsese and assorted filmmaking giants. I will, of course, also be looking forward to the New York premiere of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing follow-up, The Look of Silence, which is said to be an exemplary companion piece, and Arthur Jafa’s Dreams Are Colder Than Death, which is perhaps more topical than ever. Check out the full list of films […]...
- 8/19/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The New York Film Festival took some haranguing after announcing the inclusion of only one documentary in their Main Slate a week ago. Rectifying matters is their Spotlight on Documentary lineup, which features new works from Albert Maysles, Les Blank, Frederick Wiseman, Martin Scorsese and assorted filmmaking giants. I will, of course, also be looking forward to the New York premiere of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing follow-up, The Look of Silence, which is said to be an exemplary companion piece, and Arthur Jafa’s Dreams Are Colder Than Death, which is perhaps more topical than ever. Check out the full list of films […]...
- 8/19/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center has revealed the Spotlight on Documentary lineup for the 52nd New York Film Festival (September 26-October 12). Documentary filmmakers presenting new works include Les Blank, Debra Granik, Albert Maysles, Martin Scorsese, Frederick Wiseman, Ethan Hawke, among others. Highlights include Gabe Polsky's Cannes hit "Red Army," Maysles' design doc "Iris," "Act of Killing" director and Oscar nominee Joshua Oppenheimer's much-anticipated "The Look of Silence," Scorsese's in-depth look at The New York Review of Books, "The 50-Year Argument," and more. More and more festivals are drifting deeply into documentary programming. Just look at today's Toronto announcements, here. Nyff's New York, Us and World Premiere docs will presage which nonfiction features become part of the conversation this Fall. Full Nyff doc lineup revealed below: Dreams Are Colder Than Death (NY Premiere) Arthur Jafa,...
- 8/19/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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