Posts under ‘documentary’

The Philosophy of Remix Culture

On Saturday, March 28, 2009, the Ann Arbor Film Festival hosted the second public screening of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, a new documentary by Canadian filmmaker Brett Gaylor. Normally I’d put the video trailer at the end, but for those of you who haven’t seen it (or who aren’t familiar with these issues), I’d like [...]

Springing Free From The Trap

It’s probably no mystery by this point that I think documentaries are really valuable. In fact, I think their value will steadily rise over the next decade or so, now that the Internet has opened up film distribution in amazing new ways. One such example is the duo of Zeitgeist (2007) and its sequel, Zeitgeist: [...]

We Must Chuck Some Things

It’s both exhilarating and humiliating to see a photo of George W. Bush cowering as a shoe flies towards his head. For those of you who haven’t experienced it, you must have missed yesterday’s story about Bush’s final visit to Iraq. I managed to read about the incident on The New York Times’ website, and [...]