In this short but fascinating film, a wheelchair-bound homeless man, Michael, begins his day when he wakes up under an overpass, slowly maneuvers into his wheelchair, and heads to a local coffee shop. After cleaning up the sidewalk out front, collecting his pay (a cup of coffee), he makes his way to another overpass where… Continue reading Under the Overpass Written and Directed by Gariss
For the uninitiated, Joe Coleman paints meticulously constructed circus-dream visions that often depict serial killers and does performance pieces in which he bites the heads off rats and sets off explosions on his own body. One Chicago performance found him arrested and charged with “possession of an Infernal Machine” (a machine or apparatus maliciously designed… Continue reading R.I.P. Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman Directed by Robert-Adrian Pejo
In order to thrive, ecologies need diversity. Functionalism has proven itself in the wild. What seems bad to us, if removed causes disturbance in the equilibrium of nature. As immune as we might feel, our cultural ecology is not excluded from the rule of diversity. Roy ChristopherI marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. Author… Continue reading 1 Giant Leap Directed by Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman
Jacques Derrida is the founding father of deconstruction. Focusing on our use of language, Derrida (Jane Doe Films) shows the multiple layers of meaning at work. By deconstructing previous works of scholars, Derrida shows that language is a constantly shifting thing. Roy ChristopherI marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. Author of The Medium Picture… Continue reading Derrida Directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman
