dedications

Hey everyone!
Today's class reminded me I had wanted to post some video dedications. Everyone can check them out, I just dedicated these videos to people based on the work they're doing in the class or conversations I've had with them, etc.

To Ryan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZw0yeKgNY
This is a piece I made last term... I call it a mega-commercial. It's sort of like ad busting.
Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5LS0zOXNz4
Banksy seems to be a really intriguing guerilla artist. Have you checked him out already?


To Joe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgjeBA2NI2c
Remember how I said to you I had never seen a baby pigeon before? Well here's what one looks like! It's kinda creepy. I'm still mystified as to where the grown up ones hide all their babies. I guess in secret nests...


To Catherine (Katie?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxZJYbVd1hE
Since you showed a stop animation for your midterm, I thought you might enjoy this stop animation made on lite brite. I think it's so beautiful. On a side note, I don't hate techno or robots, I just love this video.


To Judith:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrs8cdR7Rlc
Just for laughs. Can't wait to see what kind of art piece you make about daffodils.

To Abena:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0s-Bxg2iNY
You said you and your friends were making a parody of a music video... I think this one is hilarious! It's so dumb, you just can't help but laugh... or get really annoyed.


Ok everyone I'm out of dedications for now... maybe I'll post some more if/when I find some good ones. I hope I got everyone's name right... sorry if not.

See you guys for critiques next week!
-Angela

Return to Kandahar

In Return to Kandahar, Nelofer Pazira returns to Afghanistan in search of her close friend Dyana, whose letters about life under the Taliban disclose her despair and thoughts of suicide. This story was fictionalized in the film "Kandahar" which rocketed to international attention following the events of 9/11, starring Nelofer Pazira. Today's film continues where that film left off. More widely, we will discuss multidisciplinary strategies and diasporic storytelling : Pazira moves from fictional feature, to doc, to book/memoir, to TV news, enacting, retelling, reconfiguring and influencing the events she describes.

Check link in post title for the "Return to Kandahar" web site.

angela's seminar presentation

Hey everyone!
I posted my seminar presentation on youtube as promised (it took forever to upload!), so if you missed it or if you want to re-live the experience.. here's the link. :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFaV8W8QGc

Also, here is the link to postsecret if you are interested in that. New secrets are posted every Sunday.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Judith, I was wondering if you could send the link for my seminar presentation to the woman who was a guest in our class this week (I'm sorry but I've forgotten her name). She approached me after class and expressed interest in showing my video during a presentation of some sort. I gave her my email but I didn't get hers. Thanks!

I hope everyone has a good week and doesn't get too stressed with end of term stuff!

-Angela

p.s. I might post some more video dedications so keep a look out for them!

Judith interviewed on "Animal Voices"

Click title for a link to my interview online. Here is the excellent press release by Lauren Corman, the show's host.

*** Animal Voices Radio, live, every Tuesday at 11 am-12 pm EST. Listen worldwide at http://www.ciut.fm < http://www.ciut.fm/> , Canada-wide on Star Choice 826, or in the local Toronto area at CIUT 89.5 FM. Archived shows and additional info are available at http://www.animalvoices.ca < http://www.animalvoices.ca/ > . Also on podcast. ***

On Animal Voices, Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11 a.m. EST:

Award-winning Toronto filmmaker, artist, and writer, Judith Doyle has been studying urban foxes for seven years. Her recently-defended thesis foxscape: configuring animals in urban and digital geographies, combines visual media with a text substrate, in this culminating project. Through layers of memory, academic critique, and art, foxscape investigates human-animal boundaries, natural and cultural history, and animal representation to create an experience that is highly reflexive and generative. Concentrating in part on urban foxes in Toronto and their 2001 population decimation (as a result of sarcoptic mange), Doyle explores themes of habitat loss, urbanization, adaptability, and death. Significantly, she contends, "animals are active agents of change and their representations can prompt renewed engagement with animals in the world and with our shared conditions of embodiment."

In foxscape, Doyle also considers animal presence and agency in representation more broadly, including a fascinating exploration of early cinema, zoo display, and online. Concomitantly, then, Doyle's work also attends to "digital geographies," as she critically examines how animals circulate on the Internet. "Online animals are in some ways spectral," argues Doyle, "a database of compensatory traces for species and habitat loss (like ghosts, online foxes can represent dead ones in disembodied conditions)."

Judith Doyle is a an Associate Professor of Integrated Media at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her other projects include films Private Property / Public History (1982), Launch (1982), Eye of the Mask : Theatre Nicaragua (1985), Lac La Croix (1988), Wasaga (1994), the last split second (1998), animal movies : fox past (2000) and fox : future (2001), in addition to a variety of performances that often include spoken word and written text.

Links:

http://www.readingpictures.com/foxthesis < http://www.readingpictures.com/foxthesis >

citizenshift profile of alananis

As promised here's some further information about Alanis Obomsawin, the Director of
Kahnesatake: 270 Years of Resistance - today we will screen the conclusion of this documentary about the 1990 Mohawk first nation uprising at OKA, Quebec.

video for rusiko

Hi everyone!
It's Angela. I'm just posting a video for Rusiko, but you are all welcome to check it out if you want. It's a sort of mocumentary about how to start your own cult. I am sending it to Rusiko because she showed me a project she was doing for another class about cults and I thought she might like it.
Just click on the title of this post, it is the link to the youtube video.
Enjoy!!
-Angela

MIDTERM COMMENTS AND MARKS

Just to let you know, I've sent each of you your midterm marks by e-mail. Also, you can ask for them tomorrow in class as well. The point is to give you a clear indication of your progress prior to the official final date for withdrawal from the course without academic penalty which is Friday March 9. So please check your e-mails or touch bases with me.

That said - no worries! See you for continuing midterms tomorrow.

LOG ONTO THE BLOG!

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Seminar topic change [for the better]

Dear various and sundry lovers,


Originally I was going to do my presentation on reenactment in the work of Deepa Metha but instead I've decided to follow my heart's truest desire and instead speak about [re]enactment in a work that is both nearer and dearer to me; Noam Gonick's short film 1919





be excited.

I love you,
MelissaaaaaA

Topic

Hi all, just get chance to check my student e-mail and realize Judith's e-mail of the topics we choose is without me(Karen) and Matt..so..decided to just post it here and let you guys know what are we going to do in our project..

Matt and I have decided to make a documentary exposing the below average living conditions that many students must endure during their time away from home

we started booking equipments for interview on Feb 13th, we will interview some students who live in Downtown toronto those who were away from home came to Toronto for education...

this is the topic that both me and Matt is interest and concern about...few questions is prepared for the interview as well, we will post some comment after the interview tomorrow and see how things will go..

also..if anyone of you or your friends are away from home and came to Toronto for education and have any thought or comment of your below average liiving condition, you are welcome to give us some feedback

thanks alot guys

Screening at Royal Cinema - Volunteers needed

This Sunday Feb. 11 at 2:30 PM there will be a benefit screening for the Dyana Afghan Women's Fund of Christian Frei's "The Giant Buddhas", with a presentation by Nelofer Pazira. The screening takes place at the Royal Cinema on College (see poster for details). The benefit tickets are $25. w/ a $15. charitable receipt. (PLEASE URGE YOUR FRIENDS / FAMILY WHO CAN AFFORD IT TO COME - a very good cause!). Also. student volunteers are needed who will get in FREE. Please let me know in the 'Comments' section below if you'd like to come, or send me an e-mail or sign up in class today.