The documentary opens with compelling footage: Right-wing activist Anita Bryant is talking about her efforts to condemn homosexuality in appearances around the United States. The lady with the bubble hairdo and the finishing-school diction talks about hatred and right...
Abroad for the first time starting late January, SM Contributing Columnist Mike Brune premiered his short film The Adventure in Rotterdam. Catching up on his journey here, we recap a few of his memorable moments. Visit his site for the f...
In the parting shot of Yasmin Fedda's Breadmakers, a baker dances to the rhythm of his own quirky beat, a simple joy apparent in each of his movements. As the image lingers, the day in the life documentary study lives within a gorgeous subtly, observing in a gentle manner the lives of people born with learning...
SM Associate Editor Kim Storeygard recounts the last day of the Cucalorus Film Festival, SM Editor Noralil Ryan Fores occasionally piping in on the fun-loving action.
While pop culture's history on the go so often brushes away with a graceless gesture an art life's layers of mystery, the realm of creative nonfiction somewha...
The rough equivalent in density, intensity and humor to a literary Frownland, John Holliday's 'The Assembly' rushes along its own wonderfully, and wonderful, manic trajectory. To attempt to comprehend, or to likewise identify the roots of the lack of comprehension, or to in any other manner, find out where or how or why a thread of thought is lost and found once again, is near impossible while reading, and yet simultaneously, the story is perfectly comprehensible--which, if one was t...
Running a series of interviews with SXSW Emerging Visions filmmakers, Spout Blog speaks with Present Company helmer Frank V. Ross. Read full interview.
"In Spring 2002, I flew out to San Francisco to run a sound mix on film school classmate James Laxton's short documentary. On down time from shooting, I bumped around the city by myself taking photographs on my old 35mm Pentax and...
"The work of the individual is what interests me, the distinctive voice, the single vision," animator Joan C. Grantz writes in an artist's statement. Using a clay painting technique, Grantz rendered her 1992 Academy award winning short frame by frame, concentrating with great focus on the song of the transitional segments, the transformation of one image into another. For more information on the animator Joan C. Gratz visit http://gratzfilm.com/.
