19th Annual Pro Video Show March 20-21, 2009 in Dedham, Massachusetts
The Camera Company‘s 19th Annual Pro Video Show, an annual Boston-area gathering that includes a show floor and a variety of demos and seminars of interest to media makers, will take place this year on...
View ArticleMaking Media Now 2009: the premiere New England independent film conference
Making Media Now 2009 is a full-day conference that will take place on Friday, June 5, 2009 at Bentley University. The event will bring together filmmakers from all over New England with national...
View ArticleProducing the Documentary, a class by Maria Agui Carter, June 22-26, 2009
Maria Agui Carter is teaching an excellent course this summer at MassArt: MPFV208-1 Producing the Documentary (runs Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm, June 22 through June 26, 2009). You should...
View ArticleWhat happens when artists annex an island?
The Bumpkin Island Art Encampment, a weekend-long interactive art exhibition, will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday (August 1-2, 2009). Sharon Haggins Dunn, Alice Apley, and yours truly are...
View ArticleHerskovits at the heart of blackness
This new documentary examines the role of anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963) in American history and asks important questions about the politics of scholarship and knowledge as a social...
View ArticleHow does social media figure into the future of documentary film?
If you are planning to attend Podcamp Boston 4 this weekend, I invite you to help answer a question that’s been on my mind during a session I will facilitate on Saturday: How does social media figure...
View ArticleWhat happen(ed) when artists annex(ed) an island?
This summer Alice Apley and I were “embedded documentarians” collaborating with mixed-media artist Sharon Haggins Dunn on her installation, Dragonflies and Angel Wings as part of the 2009 Bumpkin...
View Article20th Annual Pro Video Show
If you live in or around the Boston area, it’s time to make plans to attend the 20th Annual Pro Video Show, brought to you by The Camera Company, which will take place March 12-13, 2010 at the Holiday...
View ArticleThe 2010 DeCordova Biennial
Not to be out of step with the Biennial trend sweeping through the museum world, the long-running DeCordova Annual has been transformed this year into the new DeCordova Biennial providing a more...
View ArticleMarina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
I was in New York on March 27th to participate in The Conversation at Columbia University. In a recent blog post about the event, Rania wrote, “the paradox—though the topic was digital, the excitement...
View ArticleMassArt’s Summer Film School, 2010
Summer is upon us and I would like to remind you there is still time to register for most of the Summer Film School classes at MassArt. If you don’t live in the Boston area, MassArt is offering an...
View Article2010 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment
If you live in the Boston area, here’s an idea for what to do this weekend: The 2010 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment! Consider making a day of it and come out and visit on one of the public visitation...
View ArticleMaking Media Now 2010
Important Update: Making Media Now has been rescheduled to the Spring of 2011. Filmmakers Collaborative felt that in order to make it the best conference possible, and to meet the expectations from...
View ArticleDistribution U. crash course on Crowd Funding, Audience Building & Distribution
Distribution U. looks like a wonderful event for independent filmmakers who are trying to figure out the best way to take advantage of the changing distribution landscape. This will be a one-day crash...
View Articleprovocative.objects: the extradition (Fri., Nov. 12, 2010)
You are cordially invited to attend provocative.objects: the extradition, a cybersurreal exhibition + event on Friday, November 12th at MassArt in the Patricia Doran Gallery. The event is scheduled to...
View ArticleMaking Media Now 2011: Redefining collaboration in a fractured media world
Making Media Now 2011 is taking place at Bentley College on Friday, May 6, 2011. If you are an independent filmmaker working in the New England area and have not yet registered for this conference, you...
View ArticleEarth Day 2012 Double Feature: The Garden & Ingredients
In honor of Earth Day 2012, here’s a suggestion for a double feature consisting of two recent documentaries that touch on two aspects of the local food movement: The Garden (Scott Hamilton Kennedy,...
View ArticleDocumentary marathon at 2012 Independent Film Festival of Boston
Here’s my plan for a Sunday documentary marathon at the 2012 Independent Film Festival of Boston. All of the films below screen at the Somerville Theatre on Sunday, April 29, 2012. If you come to see...
View ArticleMaking Media Now 2012: Thriving in a Changing Landscape
The Making Media Now conference organized by Filmmakers Collaborative has become the annual must-attend event for New England media makers. This year the event will mark Filmmaker’s Collaborative’s...
View ArticleKevin Sweet Intervals Series in the Brant Gallery through April 21, 2013
Now through Sunday, April 21st, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. each night in the Brant Gallery (3rd floor, South Building) at MassArt, filmmaker Kevin Sweet is orchestrating an { installation |...
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