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Truly Free Film

How Many Ways Can We Collaborate Around A Single Film?

We will work together to build it better.  We will use the tools we have, but not let them restrain us. Let’s turn our limitations — financial & otherwise — into assets (may our chains set us free).  We will not let ego drive us away from an ambitious and interesting cinema.  Let’s acknowledge that defining a true author in cinema is hard, and the act of creation is rarely original. Everything is a remix.In an era of Grand Abundance, it is best practice to be even more generative, but less authorial.  And if all that is where we are, where does it leave us?

I am always looking for new methods of collaboration and new ideas of how someone else might riff off of one artist’s work.  Multiple authors have multiple arms and louder voices; their success is everyone’s & their failure no one’s.  If we

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These Are Those Things

Celebrate (Banned Book Week) With The Pope Of Filth (John Waters)

It’s Banned Book Week.  What better way to celebrate than with the Pope Of Filth himself?

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Big hat tip to Open Culture who has been delivering great discoveries on a daily basis for some time now.

There’s more from this great series produced at The City’s own City Lights Bookstore.
Joshua Mohr reads from Anthony Burgess’ A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

Kim Addonizio reads from Alan Ginsberg’s HOWL.