Video Nasties, Part 3

There is a long, if not necessarily venerable, tradition in the arts of creating confrontational, deliberately offensive work to challenge received ideas and to make people conscious of their own conventional assumptions. When work like this is created, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to get indignant at people who are genuinely offended; in […]

Blasts from the past

My movie map of Winnipeg — part one

The myth of Orson Welles’ failure

Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, cinema verite and the problem of “actuality”

Two worthwhile websites

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