“In my mind, there isn’t as much distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.” — Abbas Kiarostami Cinema’s capacity to document the world around us, to faithfully create an indexical record of its spaces and happenings, is a tradition that’s been with us at least since… Read more »
Acclaimed director Frederick Wiseman has explored many different types of places in the 53 years since he directed his first documentary. He has made films about everything from hospitals to boxing gyms, and shot them in places as eclectic as New York City and the small town of Monrovia, Indiana (a film partially inspired by… Read more »
Guest post by Scott Libson. It’s May 2016. Donald Trump is turning his attention from the primaries to the general election. You won’t be surprised to hear Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) describe something as “Orwellian” and “misguided” or Representative Diane Black (R-TN) saying it’s “political correctness run amok.” You might be surprised at the target… Read more »
Guest post by Joan Hawkins, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University. Now it’s for me to live out what there’s left to me, And I will not look back now, for neither memory Nor magic will protect me from these omens in the sky. — Miklós Radnóti, 1944 In 1944, just… Read more »
Guest post by Nanette Esseck Brewer, The Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper at IU’s Eskenazi Museum of Art. The French-American modernist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) didn’t attend Indiana University or teach at the school and as far as I know never even visited Bloomington during his lifetime; nevertheless, IU has several important connections… Read more »
In most discernible ways, the respective bodies of work of the long-married French Left Bank filmmakers Agnès Varda (1928-2019) and Jacques Demy (1931-1990) have remained quite distinct from one another. Unlike some other notable filmmaking couples (like Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, for instance), Varda and Demy rarely worked on each other’s films in any… Read more »
