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“Art films” and the nature of boredom

Posted on June 22, 2011November 12, 2017 by Kenneth George Godwin

An exchange between critics and readers in the NYTimes prompts some thoughts about the nature of boredom and why so many people get defensive about “art films”.

DVD of the week: West of the Tracks (Tie Xi Qu)

Posted on March 7, 2011June 19, 2016 by Kenneth George Godwin

West of the Tracks (Tie Xi Qu) would be a remarkable film under any circumstances. But the fact that it was the first project of a young filmmaker, Wang Bing, essentially working alone with a digital video camera, shooting over a period of two years, then editing over several more years (the film appeared at […] Read More

George Godwin, Filmmaker
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Kenneth George Godwin, Film Editor
I have been editing a wide range of film and video projects, both documentary and drama, for two-and-a-half decades. I started at the Winnipeg Film Group, cutting on Steenbeck 16mm flatbeds, adopted Avid in 1995, and have used FinalCut Pro quite extensively over the past ten years. Projects I have worked on have screened – and won awards – at festivals around the world.read more >>

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