Archive for March, 2007

CONTEMPLATING THE ENAMEL OF MORTALITY

author: JOLIE BLOND aka MARQUISDEJOLIE – duration: 02:19

Whatch and listen to Jolie Blond aka Marquisdejolie, this remarkable poet and videographer. We revlog his bewitching poem Contemplating The Enamel of Mortality, in which tooth decay is used as a metaphor for aging and mortality. A transcript of this poem you can find HERE.

This is what Blond writes about himself:

“I write stories and produce factotum videos about bums, beggars, transients, hobos, vagrants, panhandlers, homeless veterans, the working homeless, homeless on wheels, idlers, slackers, crackheads, crack motels, lubbards, lobcocks, macrogasters, tweekers, chiromaniacs, creepies, creodants, crepehangers, face lickers, call girls, crack hos, strawberries, urban nomads and all manner of street denizens.

I was a photojournalist and brigade newspaper editor for the army, becoming editor in chief of the St. Mary’s University student newspaper when I left the military, did some federal civil service work for a while until the V.A. (Veterans Affairs – ed.) maliciously screwed me up with my employer, became editor of a national magazine, owned and operated an escort agency and then dropped through the social safety net where the V.A. abandoned me when I needed them most, cheap, rotten, atavistic, calculatingly neglectful, pissant, byzantinian bureaucratic straw boss hypocrite false facade bastards that they are”.

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A GIRL LIKE ME

author: KIRI DAVIS – duration: 07:15

Should we revlog something that is neither coming from a weblog, nor made recently? Yes we should, for this is a true gem that needs to be seen by as many people. It is a 7 minutes film made in late fall 2005 by director Kiri Davis, at that time 16 years old. In the movie she talks with her girlfriends about being black, focussing on the standards of beauty imposed on black girls and how this affects their self-image.

Halfway her film Davis repeats a disturbing doll test that was originally conducted more than 50 years ago by the Afro-American groundbraking psychologist KENNETH B. CLARK. At that time the results of the test helped to make the case for desegregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated public schools. Half a century later the results of Kiri Davis’s test are as shocking as can be.

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More about Kiri Davis: CLICK HERE or HERE and also HERE.

This film was produced under the auspices of REEL WORKS TEEN FILMMAKING.

“Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, supported by HBO, is a free after-school program that challenges high school students to create short documentary films about their lives. Working one-on-one with professional filmmaker-mentors, students write, shoot and edit personal narrative videos on subjects they choose. In the process, they gain self-esteem, develop media literacy and master state-of-the-art digital filmmaking technology.”



BACK OF THE MIKE

author: AARON VALDEZ – duration: 02:00

From the personal vault of one of the guys from WRECK & SALVAGE we revlog this techno homage to the RADIO DRAMA that once was. Buckle up gerauschmachers!

“Aaron Valdez is a film and video artist originally from Houston, Texas currently doing time in Iowa City, Iowa.”

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Aaron Valdez’s other projects:

LOST IN LIGHT“Lost in Light is a videoblog about small gauge filmmaking featuring weekly posts of home movies, work by artists, articles by preservationists and film scholars, video tutorials and other film gems.”

BLANDLANDS“Blandlands is about the places we all live. The places we’ve all seen. The places we park and walk by. The places we want to be and dream of seeing.”



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