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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 30, 2011 18:00:42 GMT
This is a great resource for finding out about documentaries. It's a treasury of trailers, too. www.documentary.org/ |
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 14, 2012 22:19:13 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jan 26, 2012 23:04:36 GMT
Just watched this, and though the performances won't win any Tony Awards, the point of the program is to let children succeed at something and learn about teamwork. It's been going on for about 40 years, based out of my home town. The Little Red Truck is an upcoming feature documentary from Tree & Sky Media Arts that reveals the magic that happens in children's lives when a little red truck from Missoula Children's Theatre (MCT), rolls into town. We follow the heartwarming stories of children in diverse communities as they strive for the same impossible goal: to stage a full-scale, professional musical-- from auditions to final performance--in just six short days. The little red truck has onboard everything necessary for the production-- scripts, sets, costumes, makeup, props, and two professional tour actor/directors--everything except the cast. And that's where the story begins. On Monday, the tour actor/directors audition local children. Up to 60 cast members are selected. Rehearsals start that day and continue throughout the week. The kids work hard to learn the 50-page script packed with lines, songs, dances, and scene changes. The intense week provides a profound opportunity for the children to express their individuality, become part of a team, develop self-esteem, and to learn how to trust and accept others. Tears and triumphs, pride and heartbreak are all part of the transformation that happens during the week-long residency. Visit www.thelittleredtruck.com for more information! |
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Post by rikita on Feb 11, 2012 21:06:03 GMT
I always wanted to see the full 1978 BBC program on this interesting experiment, but it doesn't seem to be available anywhere. However, this hour-long look at it with a follow-up thirty years later is quite enjoyable. interesting! what i found most interesting was when they interviewed the kid about killing the pig and eating meat though - shame they didn't interview the (former) children, would be interesting what they remembered and thought of it all... |
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 11, 2012 22:38:19 GMT
Well, three of those kids, at least, must not have been too badly traumatized, as they went on to participate in the bbc's Surviving the Iron Age documentary. Can't find a video of it, but here's a snippet of info: And almost 20 years later Jill and Peter’s son, Tom Little, who now lives in Bangor, followed in their footsteps. In 2000 when he took part in a BBC television series called Surviving the Iron Age.
For almost seven weeks he and Ceris Williams, of Ironbridge, lived as Iron Age inhabitants on a Welsh hillside from mid September to early November last year.
They had to contend with the wettest October on record which turned their camp into a mud bath and accustom their taste buds to a bland Iron Age diet comprising of dried beans, peas, kale, grain, meat and goats’ cheese and milk.
Tom was asked to go on the documentary because his parents’ involvement in Living In The Past and felt obliged to take part.www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2008/05/14/couple-reveal-lifes-turns-since-iron-age/#ixzz1m7DsfBH0 |
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Post by Kimby on Feb 14, 2012 1:51:35 GMT
Recently watched a documentary about a contest held in the town where I attended college. It's called Triviatown
I actually played in this contest decades ago when it, and I, was young! (Before home computers, for sure! A whole different game then. "High tech" meant adding additional phone lines to your house so you had a better chance of calling in an answer during the 2-song time allotment.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2012 3:30:35 GMT
Amazing, Kimby! Did you recognize anyone in the video?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2012 5:53:39 GMT
I can't imagine anybody actually expecting to win. Is there any sort of worthwhile prize?
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Post by Kimby on Feb 16, 2012 18:31:23 GMT
bixa, no, because I haven't been there since 1976 and the year they featured was 2004.
K2, I think they do it for the glory. And for the reunion of like-minded nerds geeks folks who gather each year to re-form the same old teams they played with previously.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 22, 2012 15:10:02 GMT
Searching for a source for the 2501 Migrantes film, I found this site. Click the logo:  Some of the films can be rented online, others are only for sale, but apparently might be rentable later. |
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Post by Kimby on Feb 22, 2012 16:27:38 GMT
There is a documentary film festival in Missoula this week. Though I haven't attended any of the films, I usually keep the program with its descriptions of the films for future DVD rental reference. bigskydocff.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-film-selections.htmlI heard a radio interview yesterday with one of the documentary filmmakers about his film about a performance artist who basically sat in a chair for something like three months in NYC's Museum of Modern Art in 2010. It's the featured film on opening night: Marina Abramoviæ The Artist is Present (Director: Matthew Akers)Some background info on the retrospective exhibit at MOMA in 2010, which featured "recreations by others" of historical "performance pieces" done by the "artist": A pioneer of performance art, Marina Abramoviæ (born Yugoslavia, 1946) began using her own body as the subject, object, and medium of her work in the early 1970s. For the exhibition Marina Abramoviæ: The Artist Is Present, The Museum of Modern Art’s first performance retrospective, Abramoviæ performed in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium every day the Museum was open between March 14 and May 31, 2010. Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. This comprehensive photo gallery contains a record of each participant. Please select “Show info” to see the date and duration of each visitor’s participation.” The Artist Is Present is Abramovic’s longest performance to date.In her own words: www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/96Not sure if sitting in a chair is "art" or even "performance", but the portraits of those who sat opposite the "artist" during her "performance" are interesting. Here's a slide show: www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/marinaabramovic/Don't think I'll be renting this film, though  Here's the trailer: marinafilm.com/view-trailerThe whole affair strikes me as an "emperor's new clothes" sort of thing. You're some kind of outsider Neanderthal if you don't "get" this as art.... Interestingly, the directory said during the radio interview that he was a skeptic about her work as performance or as art, and took on the project to challenge his assumptions, without knowing whether the hours and hours of filming he was to do would produce anything worth watching. |
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Post by nycgirl on Mar 1, 2012 20:14:38 GMT
I saw that piece at MoMA. It was what you would imagine, her sitting in a chair with a poker face while people sat across from her. I got bored after about 10 seconds. I had no desire to have a stare-down myself. And I opted out of squeezing in between the naked people. Maybe I'm a Neanderthal, but hell no. I agree, though, the portraits of the museum goers who sat with her were interesting. A photo of a woman just sitting there crying silently was particularly moving. Wish I could find it. (The MoMa link with the photos doesn't seem to be working). |
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Post by Kimby on Mar 9, 2012 19:05:01 GMT
That link worked when I posted it, but it is broken now.
Maybe on youtube?
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Post by onlymark on Mar 14, 2012 14:55:34 GMT
I'd just like to point anyone who is interested to a series of science based documentaries that has been going on the BBC for donkeys years, in fact since the 1960's.
It's called 'Horizon' and an example of what a programme would be about is -
........an investigation of the work and theories of researchers who have studied different psychopathic killers.
Or -
..........the time people spend in the womb could affect every area of their future development.
Or -
Scientists are now uncovering a strange and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath the ground.
Etc etc.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2012 10:33:10 GMT
I heard on the radio that the venerable documentarian Ken Burns has a new documentary (currently premiering at the Cannes Film Festival). It's called The Central Park 5. It documents the very prominent case of 5 NYC youths who were indicted and prosecuted and later found innocent, for the rape of a Central Park jogger.
I remember this case well as it rocked NYC big time.
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Post by lola on May 23, 2012 22:33:44 GMT
I thought I'd just watch a few minutes of the Iron Age that bixa posted, because I had a lot to do this morning, then had to tear myself away at 25 minutes.
I could do something like that, minus the being on TV part. It would be hard to have no news of my family for 13 months. I wonder what financial compensation there was, if any. Putting the old career on hold for that long, these days, would be a big sacrifice.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2012 6:04:19 GMT
Here are 7 heartbreaking minutes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 4, 2013 22:51:54 GMT
A pioneer of performance art, Marina Abramoviæ (born Yugoslavia, 1946) began using her own body as the subject, object, and medium of her work in the early 1970s. For the exhibition Marina Abramoviæ: The Artist Is Present, The Museum of Modern Art’s first performance retrospective, Abramoviæ performed in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium every day the Museum was open between March 14 and May 31, 2010. Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. This comprehensive photo gallery contains a record of each participant. Please select “Show info” to see the date and duration of each visitor’s participation.” The Artist Is Present is Abramovic’s longest performance to date.In her own words: www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/96Not sure if sitting in a chair is "art" or even "performance", but the portraits of those who sat opposite the "artist" during her "performance" are interesting. Here's a slide show: www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/marinaabramovic/ (#40 above, w/reply by NYCGirl at #41) Someone else mentioned this artist recently in a different context, but I can't find the thread. Anyway, see how you react to this video. This is from comments below it on youtube: Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. in 2010 she performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing itThe first 1:30 is of Ulay arriving at the show, looking around, etc., if you wish to skip that part. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2013 17:03:38 GMT
I heard on the radio that the venerable documentarian Ken Burns has a new documentary (currently premiering at the Cannes Film Festival). It's called The Central Park 5. It documents the very prominent case of 5 NYC youths who were indicted and prosecuted and later found innocent, for the rape of a Central Park jogger. I remember this case well as it rocked NYC big time. PBS is airing this tonight. I have long awaited viewing it. Ken Burns daughter Sarah apparently has picked up the family gene from her father as she co-wrote and directed it. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2013 11:34:12 GMT
The aforementioned documentary was well presented, riveting and a grim reminder of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice to have occurred in my lifetime. I could never watch it again it incensed me that much but, I would highly recommend it, if that makes any sense. |
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Post by fgrsk8r1970 on Apr 24, 2013 16:04:55 GMT
I recently watched CHASING ICE and thought it was excellent. A photographer documenting through photos/time lapse the decline of glaciers. Heart braking at times and photographed beautifully.
I watched "FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD" last year twice. I had already been juicing at that time for 2 years so I wasn't surprised by the outcome, although extreme at times. It was also interesting to hear the people he interviewed that knew they could change their lives but just didn't want to.... at least they were honest.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 21, 2013 17:15:57 GMT
Thanks for those two recommendations, Skater. Never even heard of Chasing Ice & it sounds wonderful. Just read about this one, which is premiering on PBS tonight: The Ghost Army <-- clickClick here for more information from Smithsonian Magazine: When an Army of Artists Fooled HitlerAnd here's the trailer ~ |
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2014 18:24:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2014 12:01:16 GMT
I went to see I Am Divine today. Extremely frightening viewing on a big screen -- almost like watching a documentary about clowns. Killer clowns.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 13:36:15 GMT
Today I saw the lovely documentary Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? which is basically just a series of conversations between Michel Gondry and Noam Chomsky. 97% of the film consists of Gondry's always playful animation and you only get a glimpse of the people every now and then, which is just as well because watching two people sitting at a table is rarely the most interesting cinematographic image.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2014 20:07:55 GMT
Today, I saw the most incredibly stunning documentary Finding Vivian Maier, about a nanny who took more than 150,000 photos during her life and kept them hidden away. She told only lies about her life and would drag the children she was looking after to the slums of the city on photo shoots. Most of them thought she was wonderful but some of them thought she was a cruel and evil woman -- force feeding recalcitrant children or locking them in the cellar in the dark. She was a total frump who wore clothes from 30 or 40 years ago and yet at one point she announced that she was taking 8 months off to travel around the world. Which she did, taking pictures and pictures and more pictures.
Maybe she was born in New York, maybe she was French -- nobody was really sure. Every single member of her family avoided all contact with every other member, specifically writing them out of their wills. I was absolutely and totally mesmerized by this film! I just hope that it will be available on line because it will get extremely limited commercial exposure.
Here is an interpretation of her life:
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 11, 2014 3:27:04 GMT
Oh -- fascinating! An article about Maier was posted somewhere on Anyport some while back, but I don't remember where or by whom. At any rate, that's where I first heard of her, so was most interested when I read this film was coming out. Great to have a first hand report. Thanks so much for the two videos, which are mesmerizing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 7, 2014 1:08:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 11:08:22 GMT
I'm so glad you found this Bixa. Thank you.
I've seen the film twice so far.Once by myself and another time at a gathering in a friends home where people kept making comments while it was airing. I find this sooooo annoying, it was all I could do to not say shut the F up!! Had I not already viewed the film, I am sure I would have.
This is one of the many reasons why I prefer watching movies alone, be it in the theatre, on TV or online. I've always been that way.
Anyway, I digress.
I am just thrilled that the film has received the deserving exposure that it has.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 11, 2014 16:18:05 GMT
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