Jason Halprin

Deep Focus open call - Unbuild/Unbuilt Deep Focus invites a new round of submissions for films reflecting on the tensions between creation, destruction and de-construction. Unbuild/Unbuilt proposes to look at ways in which the components o...

Deep Focus Artis Film screening open call - Unbuild/Unbuilt. Deadline March 15th expcinema.org/site/en/call...

Sade - When Am I Going To Make A Living - Platengala 1984 • TopPop YouTube video by TopPop

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Day 23: A song about work

When Am I Going to Make a Living, Sade

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Gram Parsons With Emmylou Harris - $1000 Wedding YouTube video by Time Warp (Distorsion Temporelle)

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Day 22: A song about money

$1000 Wedding, Gram Parsons / Emmylou Harris

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John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane (Official Music Video) YouTube video by JohnMellencampVEVO

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Maybe not perfect, but it’s my go-to at karaoke

Day 23: A perfect song to sing along to

Jack & Diane, John (Cougar) Mellencamp

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The Happening YouTube video by Pixies - Topic

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Day 22: A song you’d choose as your life soundtrack

The Happening, Pixies

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Route (2015 Remaster) YouTube video by Son Volt - Topic

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Day 20: A song that shaped your music taste

Route, Son Volt

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The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl HD YouTube video by TimothyTim PSP

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Day 19: A song about someone you miss

Punk Rock Girl, Dead Milkmen

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Thanks!

West Palm Beach YouTube video by Bonnie Prince Billy - Topic

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Day 19: A song that feels warm

My grandma lived near the spot in this song, a few towns over. Twenty years gone now…

West Palm Beach, Palace

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I assume there aren’t exceptions for an MFA holder with lots of teaching experience (shoulda finished that PhD!). Too bad, I check a LOT of the boxes. If I’m wrong, maybe I’ll get my materials together…

Halsey - Graveyard YouTube video by HalseyVEVO

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Day 18: A song that is your guilty pleasure

I hadn’t seen the video until today, and now it’s more of a guilty pleasure. Not because of Sweeney, just because I’m a sucker for a good midway scene.

Graveyard, Halsey

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gordon lightfoot canadian railroad trilogy live in concert bbc 1972 YouTube video by tony blackhall

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Day 18: A song that feels cold

Maybe it’s the tremolo, but this reminds me of cold winds blowing across the plains.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Gordon Lightfoot

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I can 100% confirm the accuracy here - except it’s worse than 12 hour days.

I do go gig work for these joints when I need to get bills paid, and they push for 100 hr weeks.

Such a great album, that track is surely one of the (many) highlights.

I’ve only seen this building a few times, and not since 2007, an even in that fog I immediately knew what it was while scrolling past. Iconic, indeed.

Cheatin' YouTube video by Gin Blossoms - Topic

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Day 17: A song about cheating

Cheatin’, Gin Blossoms

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Found this for $1.25. It’s the blue 1st pressing.

Snapcase - Harrison Bergeron (Official Visualizer) YouTube video by Snapcase

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Day 17: A song that feels claustrophobic

(Really, this whole album leaves no room to breathe)

Harrison Bergeron, Snapcase (1997)

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Frederick Wiseman obituary: towering figure of American documentary filmmaking Across a filmmaking career spanning more than five decades, Wiseman – who has died at 96 – refined a uniquely austere, quietly radical form of documentary cinema. Working without narration, interviews...

Across a filmmaking career spanning more than five decades, Frederick Wiseman – who has died at 96 – refined a uniquely austere, quietly radical form of documentary cinema

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I just learned that Frederick Weisman passed today. This is truly the passing of an innovator, a giant of documentary. Titicut Follies put him on the map, but his method and continued output made him a legend.

RIP FW

Robert Smith > Morrisey

The Smiths > The Cure

Boys don’t cry, some are bigger than other’s, Keats and Yeats are on your side, I’m staring at the sea

Obviously, memory is a transient thing, and I could have this very wrong. But you’ll just have to listen to the tapes.

For some reason, I have a memory from my research in #TheConversation that it was Robert Duvall who suggested that Coppola cast Harrison Ford in a bit part in the film. Harrison was working as a cabinet maker at the time, but impressed, and his role was expanded.

RIP, Mr Duvall, an actor’s actor.

Just show them clips from Bedtime for Bonzo and ask which one became
President. Also cover his time as SAG president and backroom deals that made him wealthy while screwing the membership.

I mean, I hated Bill Viola the first time it was screened for me. I didn’t care for Brakhage’s hand painted films. I questioned Dorsky’s Alaya.

I’ve since spent hours in BV installations, programmed Dorsky as much as I can, and gave my first lecture as an MFA student on Text Of Light.

Of course, I haven’t taught since 2018z

The job isn’t to create movie fans, it’s to create an environment for understanding the medium, in all its breadth and depth.

I included these films because I think it’s important for students to be offered films in context that they might not come to on their own.

I’ve also had extremely unimpressed reactions to Maya Deren in Experimental classes.

I did it all the time. I taught an Auteur theory class on John Cassavetes at a small midwestern school, and spent the 2nd half with ‘heirs’. We watched Matewan, Killer of Sheep, Old Joy, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Stranger than Paradise, and Gummo.

I don’t think anyone liked more than 2-3 films.