Jim Northrup: With Reservations
Jim Northrup: With Reservations is a wild trip through Indian Country.
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THOMAS McGRATH
The Movie at the End of the World is a video vision quest. Click here to see more.
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GEORGE C. STONEY, a veteran maker of documentaries, lifelong media activist and professor of film at New York University, is subject of a biographical documentary in progress.
Legendary in the field of nonfiction film, Stoney is perhaps most famous as the "godfather of public access to cable television," a title he characteristically declines. Still, his advocacy for a citizen's right to use the new media for public expression helped create the federal legislation which now enables public access.
His students are everywhere: Paul Barnes (chief editor for Ken Burns), Cheryl Furjanic (SYNC OR SWIM), Jim Brown (THE POWER OF SONG: PETE SEEGER), John Whitehead (MAKE 'EM DANCE), and Mike Hazard (I'M SORRY I WAS RIGHT) to name only a few.
The nonagenarian Stoney teaches that "films should do, not just be."
Stoney made the documentary Uprising of '34 (1995) with Judith Helfand and Susanne Rostock. It documents the textile strikes in the South in 1934. The texture of the piece is like a textile.
Stoney is working with David Bagnall and Dave Olive on a major portrait of the late Brazilian educator and agitator, Paulo Freire. Freire taught culture is everything humans make, from a shoe to a song.
You can also see two early films of Stoney's on line. Booked for Safekeeping (1960) was made to train police officers in the assistance and management of mentally ill and confused persons.
Palmour Street (1949) was Stoney's first film. One reviewer called it "a curious hybrid of soap opera, history lesson, race relation film, melodrama and Coronet instructional film about a poor family growing up in the South".
This video celebrates George's late companion, Betty Puleston.
POETRY is one poem in a documentary about Roy McBride called A POET POETS. Directed by Media Mike Hazard, it is coming soon.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
FOR 40 SHORTS uploaded by Media Mike with a host of great collaborators including Deb Wallwork, Laura Youngbird, Mary Megee, George Stoney, David Bagnall, Ossian Or and more, zoom to YouTube.
You will see pieces on Robert Bly, George Stoney, Thomas McGrath, Paulo Freire, Esther Horne, star quilts, Peace House, Carol Bly, Everett Parker, Tiger Jack, Jim Northrup, Frederick Manfred, pre-emptive violence, David Bengtson, Marcel Duchamp, Pelican Rapids, Circle of Nations School, Jerome Liebling, the Ghost Dance and more.
Thursday, August 05, 2010
365 FRIENDS is inspired by Ko Un who wrote poems for 10,000 friends, and William Stafford who tried to write a poem every day, and John Caddy who posts a poem photo daily, and Jim Denomie who painted a painting every day during 2005.
Stirred by these models, I have been posting pictures with stories to Facebook.
There are threealbums, since Facebook limits an album to 200 pictures.
To begin every morning thinking good thoughts about a friend has been proving to be a luminous way to begin the day.
