Trinh, Minh-ha. “Documentary Is/Not a Name,” re voice
The socially oriented filmmaker is thus the almighty voice-giver (here, in a vocalizing context that is all-male), whose position of […]
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Trinh, Minh-ha. “Documentary Is/Not a Name,” re artifice
A documentary aware of its own artifice is one that remains sensitive to the flow between fact and fiction….It recognizes […]
Trinh, Minh-ha. “Documentary Is/Not a Name,” re self/other
Thus, a subject who points to him or herself as subject-in-process, a work that displays its own formal properties or […]
Macdougall, David. Kenya Boran, part 2
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/kenya-boran-… The film focuses on the life of Peter Boru, a sixteen-year-old former herdsboy who has become a boarding […]
Rony, Fatimah. Chants of Lotus.
Chants Of Lotus (Upi Avianto, Nia Di Nata, Fatimah Rony, Lasja F. Susatyo, Indonesia, 2007)
Rouch, Jean. “The Mad Masters,” 1955
Subtitled version of Jean Rouch’s “Les Maîtres Fous” (1955). A documentary about an African sect based on ceremonies during which […]
Why We Care
Why we Care/Cultural Survivial Lands stolen, forced assimilation, arrested without charge, shot, displaced, discriminated against, economically marginalized, and politically ignored—all […]
Rony, Fatimah. “The Third Eye,” re fascinating cannibalism
the obsessive consumption of images of a racialized Other known as the Primitive is usefully labeled fascinating cannibalism. By “fascinating […]
Rich, B. Ruby. “In the Name of Feminist Filmmaking”
Overall, there is a growing acceptance of feminist film as an area of study rather than as a sphere of […]