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Sleep Dealer

September 18th, 2009 · Comments Off

I’ve heard the buzz about Sleep Dealer, which is now out on video.  I’m looking forward to seeing it sometime in the not too distant future.
Check out the other information about this film on the film’s web site.
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Tags: Media and Activism · Politics · Popular Culture

John Greyson’s experimental documentary Fig Trees

July 11th, 2009 · Comments Off

John Greyson’s opera documentary entitled Fig Trees screened at Outfest yesterday.  Through experimentation with form, the documentary highlights the irrationality of profit-motive-as-rationale driving pharmaceutical companies’ approach to HIV/AIDS, and the complicated relationship between culture, capitalism, and movements for social and economic justice.  A complex, and at times self indulgent film,  Fig Trees sparks creative connections [...]

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Agnes Varda and The Black Panther Party

July 9th, 2009 · Comments Off

Increasingly, I am interested in the relationship between French intellectuals and artists and black radicals  in the United States during the 1960s.  I read somewhere that Deleuze and Guattari visited the United States and met with black activists at some point. I would have to find the article to confirm that, but it is fun [...]

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Tags: Media and Activism · Politics