Stumbled upon this short animated film by Ryan Woodward recently. It’s a beautiful 3 minutes and 4 seconds if you’ve got the time to spare. In this two-dimensional narrative of movement, Woodward offers us a glimpse at the fleeting nature of our relationships as we touch, dance, and let go. The musical score is called [...]
woodward’s “thought of you”
December 14th, 2010
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Tags: art · dancing · film · music · video
oppressor and victim, victim and murderer?
August 20th, 2010
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Paradise Now directed by Hany Abu-Assad is the kind of film that reminds one that the story we hear in western media is but one story, and an aggregate political one at that. It is not the story of individuals–of the people living in the midst of daily conflict, of occupation, oppression, and fear. This [...]
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the perfect human irks students
March 25th, 2009
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We kicked off a unit on microfiction in my creative writing class the other day. This segment of the course will be focused heavily on the idea of revision–sometimes arbitrary, always gut-wrenching. The process we’re following is one I’ve been developing with a colleague of mine based on the film The Five Obstructions. The very [...]
