Tan Pin Pin is a Singaporean filmmaker, known for her doc “Singapore, With Love” about activism, democracy in Singapore. She also did several films about disenterment and relocation as Singapore shuts down cemetaries to build high-rises.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Pin_Pin
And here is the link to the second of her films on the topic:
Brett Story is a Canadian filmmaker. Her documentary The Prison in 12 Landscapes opened new territory in terms of the treatment of issues around incarceration. It may be on Kanopy, but I found it on Apple TV store for rent or sale.
See: https://www.prisonlandscapes.com for trailer and other info.
Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014) was a Brazilian filmmaker. In the 1960s he set out to make a fiction film about a rural union leader. The film was stopped by the military coup in 1964. Many years later, he found the original footage, and made a documentary about the survivors of the crew and cast he had worked with, titled in English “30 Years After.” In class we discussed his other film Jogo de Cena, which translates as Scene Play, or maybe Theater Game. In this project, he puts out an ad asking women to come in and tell the story of their lives.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Coutinho
Kristof Wodiczko is an artist known for his large scale projections dealing with geopolitics like this one from Brooklyn 1984:
For more see: https://www.krzysztofwodiczko.com/public-projections
WEEK 3
A couple of things came up in discussion.
ODALITH GROUP is a small production collective that consists of Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun who live and work in London and make stylistically innovative films on social and artististic topics. See: http://otolithgroup.org
Also mentioned was Michel de Certeau’s classic The Practice of Everyday Life. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Everyday_Life
AND: https://monoskop.org/File:De_Certeau_Michel_The_Practice_of_Everyday_Life.pdf
Also discussed was the topic of entanglement. For an interesting approach to quantum entanglement, see Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway. A more humanities based approach can be found in the work of Rey Chow in Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture.
And I mentioned the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari Anti-Oedipus and 1000 Plateaus in reference to the background of Brian Massumi’s thinking. He translated those texts from the French.
WEEK 5
Someone in class said they’d be interested in seeing some of my films. Here are links to a selection of my more recent work, including experimental shorts, and longer documentaries. Only Hiroshima Bound is password protected.
Earlier Incident (2006) 2:47
Treatment Plan (2011) 8:47
Cold Shutdown: Fukushima One Year After (2012) 32:12
Hiroshima Bound (2015) 56:10
PASS: monamour
FOR WEEK 9 APRIL 7th
Here is an interview with Jill Godmilow:
And here is the additional material that comes with Far from Poland
FOR WEEK 11 – APRIL 30th
Here is the opening of Barbara Hammer’s Resisting Paradise (2003)
https://player.vimeo.com/video/413649511
The password: IMADOC2
FOR WEEK 12 – MAY 6th
This is a link to a short excerpt from Deborah Stratman’s 2016 epic experimental doc, Illinois Parables:
This is a link to the website of the Khalil brothers’ Inaatse/se:
And here is a link to Panahi’s This is not a film:
The password is IMADOC2
Hans Jurgen Syberberg’s 1977 classic Hitler – A Film from Germany
See: https://vimeo.com/416730721
The password is IMADOC2
IMA Doc II 