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Ed Ackerman's Question

story © Michael Betancourt | published November 21, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



theory: CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS

Ed Ackerman's article from 1988 asks:

"Get a day job. Make films with Arts Council Money. An experimental film cannot pay for itself." Is this fact true?






 
Radio-Activity

story © Michael Betancourt | published November 19, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: NEWS & REVIEWS

Radio-Activity (2004) 4:45 minutes

Radio-Activity takes its title from the sounds used on the soundtrack: the noises were created from telemetry sent back to Earth by deep-space probes, primarily Cassini while on its way to Saturn (all these sounds are courtesy of Dr. Donald Gurnett, The University of Iowa). These sounds from space provided the impetus for the imagery. Radio-Activity is literally based around the activity of radios, radio-telescopes and broader spectrum beyond human sight.






 
Flash Animation Aesthetics

story © Michael Betancourt | published November 19, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: AESTHETICS

Dr. Anna Munster has some interesting arguments about Flash Aesthetics from 2003 in Fine Art Forum Magazine.






 
HR2391 Copyright Bill in the US

story © Michael Betancourt | published November 17, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



theory: CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS

According to Wired, Bill HR23981 will make editing for content legal (it already is) and skipping commercials illegal. Does anyone get the feeling "our" government is nuts?






 
Canadian Experimental Video

story © Michael Betancourt | published November 17, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



research: AVANT-GARDE MOVIES

The Canadian Journal of Communication has an article called Magnetic North: Canadian Experimental Video, on experimental video made in Canada, "edited by American independent curator and film/video maker Jenny Lion, was conceived as a book/catalogue accompanying an exhibition screening series of the same name that Lion herself curated in association with Minneapoliss Walker Art Center. "