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Kevin Sweet Intervals Series in the Brant Gallery through April 21, 2013Written by David Tames on April 17, 2013
Filed Under Art, Events & Screenings, Films
Now through Sunday, April 21st, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. each night in the Brant Gallery (3rd floor, South Building) at MassArt, filmmaker Kevin Sweet is orchestrating an { installation | performance | workshop } that is part of... Continue Reading...
Whitney Dow: When the Drum is BeatingWritten by David Tames on November 30, 2011
Filed Under Documentary, Featured, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Films, Interviews
I had the pleasure of seeing When the Drum is Beating at the New Hampshire Film Festival (NHFF) recently. The documentary, directed by Whitney Dow, weaves together the history of Haiti with the story of Orchestre Septentrional, Haiti’s... Continue Reading...
Chris Paine: Revenge of the Electric CarWritten by David Tames on November 3, 2011
Filed Under Featured, Filmmakers, Films, Interviews
Chris Paine, best known as the director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, followed the rise and fall of General Motors EV-1, of which he was a passionate owner. He recently completed a new film, Revenge of the Electric Car, now going... Continue Reading...
Notables of the Noughties: 35 documentary films, 2000-2009Written by David Tames on January 4, 2010
Filed Under Documentary, Films, Sticky
It’s a special time that comes around every ten years in which we take a moment to reflect back on the past decade and make our “favorite” and “best-of” lists. It was a good decade for documentary films,... Continue Reading...
Sixty-seven excellent documentaries available through NetflixWritten by David Tames on August 28, 2009
Filed Under Documentary, Featured, Films
Students and friends often ask me for suggestions on what documentaries I recommend watching, and they are often frustrated that many of my suggestions are not easily obtainable. Many classic documentaries are hard to find: they are... Continue Reading...
Flying takes documentary form to new heightsWritten by David Tames on August 27, 2009
Filed Under Documentary, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Films, Sticky
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman is an amazing six-hour, six-part, documentary of epic proportions by Jennifer Fox in which we follow the filmmaker as she travels around the world asking her women friends how they construct and... Continue Reading...
Herskovits at the heart of blacknessWritten by David Tames on July 29, 2009
Filed Under Documentary, Events & Screenings, Films
This new documentary examines the role of anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) in American history and asks important questions about the politics of scholarship and knowledge as a social construct. Herskovits, a controversial... Continue Reading...
Facing Realities: Backyard and Operation FilmmakerWritten by David Tames on June 11, 2008
Filed Under Art, Events & Screenings, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Films
On Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at the ICA in Boston the Facing Realities: Dialogues in Boston Documentary Film series continues with Ross McElwee’s “Backyard” (1984, 16mm, 40 min) and Nina Davenport’s... Continue Reading...
Trade is more important than aidWritten by David Tames on October 29, 2007
Filed Under Documentary, Films
One of the greatest things that developed nations can do to help developing nations is engage in fair trade, and given that coffee is the most valuable commodity we trade worldwide after oil, it represents an industry that for many... Continue Reading...
New Media and a Smile in New HampshireWritten by David Tames on October 4, 2007
Filed Under Documentary, Events & Screenings, Film Festivals, Filmmaking, Films, New Media
Join me and fellow panelists Kevin Anderton and Steve Garfield at the New Hampshire Film Festival on October 12th from 1:30 to 3:30pm for a panel titled “Future Now: New Media and the Modern Filmmaker” at the Portsmouth... Continue Reading...
