Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

The biennial Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) Conference will be here at Messiah shortly. The conference brings together Christians from many, many denominations to share, pray and display their art. This year’s conference is titled “Virtue and the Virtual” although I don’t think it’s entirely focused on either, but embraces a broad […]

Well, what of James Cameron and his collaborators, Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino? Jacobovici is a producer of “para-archaeologistic” documentaries whose earlier documentary on the tomb of James ended in scandal and accusations of fraud by the Israeli Antiquities Authority. That their most recent documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” has also ended […]

The Facing the Factual Future conference in my earlier post, has one of the most intriguing discussions of a documentary I have run across in awhile: Look at the Doc called “MY SECOND LIFE” listed under Cross Platform Producing @ 11:00-13:30
It starts with a nod to the purported disappearance of a man (AKA, Molotov Alva) […]

Well, here’s some very insightful reflections on Graduate School for filmmakers (not film studies folks) by a friend of mine who’s become a successful filmmaker in the Asia-Pacific region, Tan Pin Pin. Here’s a link to her blog entry on FilmSkool CONFIDENTIAL
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Yes, many people have written about the impact of new technologies on the documentary. What will YouTube (now GooTube), Putfile, GodTube, et alia mean for the struggling documentarian? Will quality of careful analysis go down as quantity of video image goes up? Will the Dancing Cadet drive the thoughtful monuments of “creative […]