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Repeated Phrase, "Nuts & Bolts": Making Medicine for Melancholy

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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores   
Monday, 03 March 2008
Barry Jenkins, director Medicine for Melancholy

We start here, in a conversation held the after day South By Southwest announced its 2008 feature lineup, SM staffer Barry Jenkins' debut Medicine for Melancholy on that list. The story of two lost, wandering San Francisco-ites, Micah and Jo’, on the day after a one night stand, Medicine for Melancholy explores issues involving romance, race, class and gentrification without flinching at any of the arguments. It’s a story than when I read the script, I wrote to Barry, something like, “I just never think about these things. I just never have to, and it made me sad, but that’s what I liked about it.” It’s a story that when I saw the film, I immediately wanted to watch again, to consume it part by part and understand it in a purely emotional way. It’s a film, all said, that made me want to fall in love and also directly made me fall in love with it.

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The Imaginative Worlds of the Leiser Bros.

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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores   
Monday, 25 February 2008
Imagination

A conversation wherein Eric & Jeffrey Leiser via e-mail speak about the art and spirituality of Imagination.

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On the Making of Breadmakers

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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores   
Monday, 18 February 2008
Image

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 difficulties. "I try to bring different worlds for people to watch, explore and think about," Fedda comments about her work.

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New Ways Documentary: my olympic summer

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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores   
Monday, 11 February 2008
my olympic summer

On first viewing, there's something elusive about Daniel Robin's Sundance award-winning documentary short my olympic summer; there's something romantic, there's something bitterly sad, there's something hopeful, there's something too perfect. It's easy to admire but difficult to connect to the film because the reality presented is so gorgeous and forgiving. Using a mix of home and archival footage, Robin, through the voice-over of M.R. Dhar, tells his parent's love story through a letter written but unsent and film reel shot but undeveloped by his mother. In poetic language, the letter details how the marriage was broken by neglect and then the footage explains how it was salvaged by the 1972 Israeli Olympic hostage situation.

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Innovations in Gaming: Talking with Designer Eddo Stern

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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores   
Monday, 11 February 2008
Eddo Stern

"I'm not an elitist artist," Eddo Stern says. "I don't think people are idiots. I think people are being undersold by the mainstream."

While his Dark Game expands gaming dialogue between communities based on sensory depravation, the foundation of Stern's body of work lays in various areas of innovation from crafting gaming experiences that draw the player more physically and emotionally into the narrative worlds to integrating documentary influenced game designs that impart social awareness. Through all, his work uses big concepts and speaks big issues on an artistic and accessible level.

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