Visual Poetry
Robert Todd makes poetry. Not with words, but with images. His latest film, Interplay, is a 6.5-minute expression of movement that he literally filmed in his backyard. Todd shows the joy of summer with...
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Email news to news@newenglandfilm.com. What's HappeningSoul Sister, with Rahman Oladigbolu as director and Ken Willinger as cinematographer, has started production this spring south of Boston. The...
View ArticleTrash to Treasure: A Story of Economic Survival
Cartoneros, Boston College professor Ernesto Livon-Grosman’s first documentary film, opens with a quote by French poet, Charles Baudelaire, setting the stage for a fascinating exploration of the...
View ArticleDelivering Video on the Web
Back in early February I was sent a link to the The Machine is Us/ing Us video on YouTube by Michael Wesch, an assistant professor of anthropology at Kansas State University. This video is among...
View ArticleThe “World’s Toughest Race” by Rowboat
Although Thomas Mailhot and John Zeigler shared a mutual interest in rowing, they didn’t plan on making a documentary about their 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic. But when Mailhot spoke of his...
View ArticleDorothea Gillim's Stand-Out Heroines
On April 12th Dorothea Gillim will be showing episodes of her animated series Hey Monie at the Chicks Make Flicks series at MIT. Gillim directed this 2003 comedy about the adventures of Simone “Monie,”...
View ArticleThe Boston Connection: On Broadway
With a collaborative art such as filmmaking, the willingness to make connections and use them could mean the difference between a film living on the screen or living in the can. Maybe it stems from...
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