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How do we capture the experience of looking at each other through webcams? How can we characterize that looking? And what meaning do we find in it?
Try getting a closer look into the show with dancer Serene Meshel-Dillman. Her documentary Getting to The Nutcracker is a warm portrayal of young dancers’ training process.
Claire Denis masterfully uses discomfort and disturbance to create tension in all her movies, producing her own brand of horror.
Even in her fiction, Collins was thinking about the art of point of view and its role in film.
It’s delicious to see this kind of character taking up so much space on screen: unkempt, dazed, and aimless, with occasional moments of alertness to take pleasure in something tiny, just because she wants to.
Cheryl Dunye’s first feature, The Watermelon Woman, plays with autofiction in film: the plot follows “Cheryl,” played by Cheryl, as she “tries to make a documentary” about an actor from a 1930s film known only as “The Watermelon Woman.”