Ivens. The Camera and I. re agitate-mobilize
“A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes, but his problem remains the same. It is always how to […]
02. Theory
Selections from writing by filmmaker/theorists on political media.
Ivens. The Camera and I. Re documentary and objectivity.
“I was surprised to find that many people automatically assumed that any documentary film would inevitably be objective. Perhaps the […]
Ivens. The Camera and I. Re ojectivity.
And on every hand, in both the United States and England, there were demands for more ‘objectivity’. I was often […]
Juhasz, A. “Bad Video: From meaning to Feeling” (2008)
In my Tour #4, The Vernacular, Visual and the Vlog, I propose that there are two dominant forms of video […]
Juhasz, A. “You Say You Want a Revolution?” 2008
My course with a digital-presence, Media Praxis—one that focuses upon the historical, ethical and theoretical underpinnings of revolutionary media practices […]
Juhasz, Alexandra. “Mp:me, Variant of a Manifesta, 2008”
(After “WE: Variant of a Manifesto,” Dziga Vertov, 1922) I call myself MP:me (Media Praxis : Alexandra Juhasz)—as opposed to […]
Juhasz, Alexandra. “No Woman is an Object,” re docs and prisons
“For every documentary- like every prison- is an arrangement founded on violence and disequilibrium.” Alexandra Juhasz, “No Woman is an […]
Juhasz, Alexandra. “Tweaking Enzenberger” (2008)
In his “Constituents of a theory of the Media,” in The Consciousness Industry (1974), Hans Magnus Enzenberger describes a new […]
Juhasz. “No Woman is an Object,” re doc and judging suffering
“It is the victim’s very fragility (attributed to race, class, gender, sexuality, health, nationality, and the like) that makes her […]
Juhasz. “Writing the ME & the WE”
From the blog, Media Praxis. So, I’ve been writing weird poetry—an homage to Vertov and Esfir Shub—as a way out […]