This post is late in the news cycle of this media event because I tried, unsuccessfully, to publish it as an Op Ed. Enjoy! A few weeks ago, an unfortunate scandal played out at Pitzer College, where I… more →
MEDIA PRAXISwrote 3 months ago: THE TUNNEL (2011) Review by Paul McMahon – The Distracted Critic THE TUNNEL is an Australian f … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Flickr.comhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/m4tik/4687194723/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Hollywood: Hollywood … more →
wrote 4 months ago: (Source: http://www.imaginesciencefilms.org) This week’s short is just utterly and completely … more →
wrote 5 months ago: Documentaries have been around almost since the beginning of film itself (Nanook of the North being … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Above is a clip of 12 questions for Woody Allen. Below is a list of some of his movies. WOODY’ … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Apollo 18 is the latest in a swelling subcategory of films known as “found footage,” movies that pur … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The weirdest thing in the world to me is breaking down a film. I mean don’t get me wrong, I do it al … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Last month at Waterfront, we screened a mockumentary called Moment of Truth: The Andy Meyers story. … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The third day of my show PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces brought this remarkable and unex … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Sometimes it might be difficult to identify a documentary as completely credible even if they includ … more →
wrote 2 years ago: In most provinces I have lived in Romania, France or Canada, there was a consciousness of special id … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Across this blog and throughout my video-book I’ve worried about the “ironic free-fall … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fake documentary artfully mixing staged and true realist documents t … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Director – Charles B. Pierce Cast – Vern Stierman, Chuck Pierce Jr., William Stumpp, Wil … more →
wrote 2 years ago: I’ve commenced field work on the Last Generation / First Generation project. Made a trip to th … more →
wrote 2 years ago: “At this point it is necessary to ask again why the discourse of political modernism, so clear … more →
wrote 2 years ago: While Catfish presents as a convincingly real fake-documentary (currently awaiting its BIG reveal), … more →
wrote 2 years ago: It came as no surprise to me when Casey Affleck at long last spilled the beans: that his tawdry expo … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Director – Daniel Stamm Cast – Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Ca … more →