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A cinema art market?

In cinema, Novelty, Poetics on 23 April 2009 tagged 1000fans, art, cinema, distribution, indie, market with 2 comments

Digital filmmaker Alejandro Adams, of the original and newer braintrustdv.com, has organized and posted a self-distribution roundtable. Here is my entry: What if cinema art’s economic model shifted from its traditional show business roots to something resembling the art market and in the process helped reconstruct the economics of art–making in the digital age. That’s [...]

Story vs. Collage

In Collage, Novelty, Poetics on 11 March 2009 tagged Barthelme, cinema, Collage, fragment, movies, novels, story with 1 comment

None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew (or thought one knew) what it did. -Susan Sontag,  Against Interpretation. The 3-minute pop song has it’s roots in the [...]

Novelty and Authenticity

In Novelty, Poetics, Termite on 19 June 2008 with 1 comment

Six months away from the vlog. There is a lot going on behind the scenes – personal/professional/national/global – but really I have been thinking, reading and absorbing. Where to go with one’s extra energy? Being a contemporary “media worker” is all about stops, starts and about-faces. Mark Deuze’s Media Work lays out the opportunities and [...]