Today marks ten years since Helen Hill died. I knew her, I loved her, I felt her loss badly — and I still do. (Since…
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Category: Film & Video
Moving video around the web has gotten a lot easier over the past decade. Studious types may remember that YouTube launched the same year Katrina…
The traditional gift is china, or diamonds, but we opted for foam. Let me back up. Twenty years ago, my mom and dad bought a…
Watching The Theologians this weekend reminded me: I finished work on another movie earlier this summer and never wrote about it. It’s a five minute…
Michael Homan has concocted another short movie of inscrutable strangeness. This one is called The Theologians. This one’s got a lot of academic in-jokes that…
On November 11, 2011, eleven of us gathered at The 1111 Building, in parking space #11, and at precisely eleven minutes and eleven seconds after eleven o’clock a.m., we raised a toast — the No. 11 Cup.
That’s eleven elevens, in case you weren’t keeping track.
Once again we interrupt our regularly scheduled investigations to draw your attention to a notable screening. The Florestine Collection Experimental animator Helen Hill found more…
We take a break from our regularly scheduled odyssey to promote the following worthy item. This Friday, the New Orleans Film Festival is hosting the…
During the actual program of the Rising Tide conference (9AM – 6:30PM Central) you can watch live via this player. Wish you were here with…
I was on WWL-TV this morning with Alli deJong, talking up Rising Tide 6. Don’t forget to register now.
Here’s Persephone’s directorial debut. Cast: Xy — Snow White Persephone — Nice Fairy Michael — Grumpy Therese — Dopey Nicole — Flower David — Prince…
Perils for Pedestrians episode #174 was just released today and will be appearing on stations across the country. The first interview is with yours truly.…
My week as a bachelor is drawing to a close. When we did this last year it was pretty tame. I saw some movies, which…
My girls are enjoying a week at an undisclosed location in central Louisiana this week. So I am playing the bachelor. Not very exciting, really.…
This used to be a mellow time of year for me. Mostly I work with faculty, and faculty tend to get very busy toward the…
Today was one of the strangest days of my admittedly strange career. I suppose that being an extra in a big film or television production…
I’ve gotta give some props to Eric Spears for continuing to excavate such gems from his personal video collection. Here’s Christy Paxson Behind the Scenes…
I’m not quite in my right mind today, thanks to some cold medicine I took this morning. So this might be the perfect time to…