This video is the first in a series called I’m Your Fan created by the ladies over at TwinBike, where they assemble ‘fan’ footage surrounding a specific person by asking friends for recollections and musings to form an identity without the person actually appearing in the video. In this case the subject is the artist [...]
Category Archives: Film
True Romance
March 25, 2011 – 3:35 pm
My first awareness of Elizabeth Taylor was in the 80′s. She had perfumes. She was friends with Michael Jackson. She had been married a lot. Sometimes she was on talk shows. She had that over-tucked, over-dyed, plastic look that makes older celebrities look really scary. I didn’t really know who she was beyond that. It wasn’t [...]
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
March 15, 2011 – 7:37 am
Photographer Shawn Brackbill began using Polaroid cameras and film to shoot fashion last fall during New York Fashion Week, where he discovered the unique emotional bond that the instant film creates with its subjects. “In all of the backstage chaos,” he recalls, “I found that the Polaroid camera really put my subjects at ease. They’re [...]
The Fuckn Detroit House
February 9, 2011 – 2:30 pm
Tonight, The Humble Arts Foundation is having a screening of The Lakehouse, the 2006 movie starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock where they are trapped in some time warp or something in a really beautiful architectural lake house. I’m not really sure. I think it’s a cult-movie type thing for people who like fancy houses. [...]
Francesca Woodman: April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981
January 19, 2011 – 11:23 am
Thirty years ago today, Francesca Woodman jumped to her death from the window of a Lower East Side Manhattan loft. A photographer, she was prodigious and original; she had been a star pupil at the Rhode Island School of Design and a contemporary of the Surrealists in Rome. She left behind 800 negatives and 120 [...]
Hello MOMI
January 15, 2011 – 11:35 am
The Museum of the Moving Image re-opens today after being closed for three years to complete a $67 million renovation by architect Thomas Leeser. The newly refurbished digs features a 267 seat theater, a 68 person screening room, and tons of galleries and spaces for video installations. For the first six weeks the calendar to [...]
Arcadian Night
December 13, 2010 – 1:11 pm
This Saturday, Andrea Hill and Kalika Farmer are organizing a nuit blanche festival of rarely seen art in the Berkshires, a community well-known as a beacon of creativity in the mountains. Taking its name from Arcadia, which means ‘utopia in harmony in nature,’ Arcadian Night is a salon style exhibit of 42 artists with an [...]
You Wont Miss Me
December 10, 2010 – 3:56 pm
Tonight is the theater premiere of Ry Russo Young’s You Wont Miss Me starring Stella Schnabel. The film has been shown at the MOMA and was a favorite at film festivals, but tonight marks its theatrical opening almost two years later. The film is a portrait of Shelly Brown, a rebellious young woman with a [...]
The Future of Money
November 24, 2010 – 4:53 pm
With America still knee-deep in the recession, and a banking industry that has long lost all trustworthiness, more people are starting to think about alternative systems of monetary exchange and trying to develop new, mainly community based, structures and platforms for the exchange of goods and ideas in general. Dossier talked to director and media [...]
