Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Too Many Films, So Little Time
Sigh. The list goes on.
Brother to Brother, a movie about an African American gay man who meets a contemporary of Langston Hughes and realizes that his struggle in a straight white dominated culture isn't much different than Langston Hughes'; Primer about four men making new technology when they realize they are making something that will give them anything they want; One Point O, a weird-sounding movie that intrigues me about an increasingly paranoid computer programmer; Farmingville, a documentary about a town on Long Island facing its own racism around undocumented workers, September Tapes, a fictional film made out to be a documentary (think Blair Witch Project), about a journalist covering the war in Afghanastan who disappears and the person on his tracks, Home of Phobia, a film about a white male freshman in 2003 who gets cast by his frat brothers as gay....
I could go on for days. I haven't yet poured through the World Cinema and the World Cinema Documentaries, as well as the many shorts & panel discussions. More to come as I make my way through the program!
Brother to Brother, a movie about an African American gay man who meets a contemporary of Langston Hughes and realizes that his struggle in a straight white dominated culture isn't much different than Langston Hughes'; Primer about four men making new technology when they realize they are making something that will give them anything they want; One Point O, a weird-sounding movie that intrigues me about an increasingly paranoid computer programmer; Farmingville, a documentary about a town on Long Island facing its own racism around undocumented workers, September Tapes, a fictional film made out to be a documentary (think Blair Witch Project), about a journalist covering the war in Afghanastan who disappears and the person on his tracks, Home of Phobia, a film about a white male freshman in 2003 who gets cast by his frat brothers as gay....
I could go on for days. I haven't yet poured through the World Cinema and the World Cinema Documentaries, as well as the many shorts & panel discussions. More to come as I make my way through the program!
