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BLACK STAINS

By David Finkelstein | November 2011

Horodi and Kammerer have used a collage technique, mixing straight documentary footage with fiction, to make a strong statement in favor of an engaged and activist form of making art…

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BLACK STAINS

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"Black Stains" is a powerful experimental essay film by Sharon Horodi and Cheb M. Kammerer, which explores the issues of the commodification of art in...

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PARTIAL FRACTION

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"Partial Fraction," an absorbing documentary by Cheb Kammerer and Sharon Horodi, is a portrait of the Shapira neighborhood in Tel Aviv, where the...

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THE DIVIDED UTOPIA OF NEVE SHAANAN: 8 COMMENTS ON THE NEW CENTRAL BUS STATION OF

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"The Divided Utopia of Neve Shaanan" is a fascinating essay film by Sharon Horodi and Cheb Kammerer about the New Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv, a...

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VIDEOMAPPINGS: AIDA, PALESTINE (DVD)

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In "Videomappings: Aida, Palestine," German born artist Till Roeskens has created a fascinating document: part community art project, part documentary....

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THE FLOOR OF THE WORLD

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"The Floor of the World" is one of filmmaker Janie Geiser's mesmerizing and enchanting film collages. Her style is a kind of low tech cinematic puppetry,...

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GHOST ALGEBRA

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"Ghost Algebra" is one of Janie Geiser's most beautiful and evocative films, using her style of simply animated objects. The protagonist is the wooden toy...

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CAT’S CRADLE

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"Cat's Cradle" is an engaging, short visual study of a highly compressed 3D space. Filmmaker Raymond Rea uses a crude form of animation, made largely from...

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RETREAT

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"Retreat" is an experimental portrait of Amy Miller, an American woman who is a Buddhist nun in the Mahayana tradition. Miller runs the Milarepa Center in...

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CROOKED BEAUTY

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"Crooked Beauty" is an experimental portrait of Jacks Ashley McNamara, an artist and advocate for the mentally ill. Ms. McNamara is an astonishingly...

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THE MIAMI DENTIST

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"The Miami Dentist" is a strange, poetic, and engrossing short by David Baeumler, with an oddly comic tone. The credits are in the jaunty graphic style of...

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