Spittin' Change

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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I took the opportunity to screen the recently released documentary City of Borders at this year’s Los Angeles film Festival. Korean-American filmmaker Yun Suh delivers a compelling and provocative film.  Though at times it privileges a narrative about queer people that presents lgbt people as somehow more capable of overcoming hatred and inequality, a stance [...]

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IMAGINE FESPACO NEWSREEL 1
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This is a video made by Gaston Kabore’s Imagine Institute about FESPACO.  This is the first newsreel.  There is a second one on the site to which this entry links.

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