For Laura. For the New Year. RIP.

Like Poitras’ films, this is a work of immense empathy and intellectual curiosity.

My interview with filmmaker Ondi Timoner (We Live in Public) is up at Tribeca Film.

I’m writing this on a Sunday, which means NY Times Sunday Styles equivocations: amateur lesbian webisode series Girl/Girl Scene is a product of Twitter’s hyper-active efforts to commodify one’s everyday surroundings into status symbols. Scene does everything the typical lifestyle drama show does: characters brunch, name-drop local bands, and attend boozy parties. Except, unlike the Showtime the lesbian soap-opera it so clearly admires, The L-Word, the show is shot in Kentucky and the suburbs of Illinois. “All the indie lesbians”, are Sunday strip-mall lay-abouts who eat at the same “Doodles” restaurant. Girl/Girl Scene depicts a labyrinthine Middle American of condos and highway dive bars where the Motel 6 room is a lesbian coven.

Read more on Media I Consumed : Girl/Girl Scene…

A profile and interview with filmmaker Anna Biller.

After completing four films in four years, admirably prolific director Lee Yoon-ki’s modest, slice of life dramas haven’t quite caught on in the U.S.

New Sincerity: Dog Beach Outtake from Jason Klorfein on Vimeo.

Sunday at the Dog Beach. Spring 2009.

Joy turned hilariously into terror. Shot by Telly Ramos, on our Sunday afternoon power-hour to collect b-roll for “New Sincerity”. Unfortunately, this didn’t end up in the short.

Read more on Video Dump: Joy turned to Terror…

Sat., Nov. 7, 12pm. Part of “Surface of the Pixel”.

A fatal error occurred today, so all the content on this site has had to be reset. Website will be up and running soon.