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Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen

Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen is a practical and inspirational guide to students and independent filmmakers. This new edition of what has become a bible for filmmakers internationally is completely rewritten, expanded and redesigned.
This is the only book to describe and explain the whole process – from creating an original [...]

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Robin Rhode: Who Saw Who

Born in South Africa in 1976, Berlin-based Robin Rhode uses the barest of means to comment on urban poverty, the politics of leisure and the commodification of youth cultures. Drawing plays a crucial role in his inventive, witty and playful performances, photographs and video animations, which are often created on the street, and entail Rhode, [...]

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Video Art

This book is the most complete and up-to-date survey available of an art form born just over forty years ago and now ubiquitous internationally. Video art has moved from brief showings on tiny screens in alternative art spaces to dominance in international exhibitions and artistic events, in which vast video installations sometimes occupy factory-sized buildings [...]

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Idrissa Ouedraogo

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Idrissa Ouedraogo, director – Burkina Faso

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Nothing but the Truth

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Nothing but the Truth is the story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, and the ambiguities of freedom. Nothing but the Truth (2002) was John Kani’s debut as sole playwright and was first perfomed in the Market Threatre in Johannesburg.

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Nandipha Mntambo – The Encounter

http://www.michaelstevenson.com/contemporary/exhibitions/mntambo/index2009.htm

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William Kentridge: Quite the Opposite of Cartoons, by Philippe Moins

12th June 2009 by Luke Crossley

Johannesburg, the end of the 20th Century.

Soho Eckstein is a fat person; some kind of real-estate magnate. With his striped suits and pudgy features, you would place him somewhere between Bolshevik caricatures of capitalists and the expressionist images of the Weimar Republic.
Felix Teitelbaum we only see from the back–to begin with at least. Passive and [...]

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Esopus #10

Esopus 10 (Spring 2008)

 
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CONTENTS: 
ARTIST’S PROJECT: BEREND STRIK
“Untitled, 2008″ (removable insert)
ARTIST’S PROJECT: YVONNE JACQUETTE
“Untitled, 2008″
50 FRAMES: PETER HUTTON’S AT SEA (2007)
Introduction and interview by Scott MacDonald
DAILY REMINDERS
Letters by Robert Guest
ARTIST’S PROJECT: DULCE PINZÓN
“The Real Story of the Superheroes”
NEW VOICES: “PLATE TECTONICS”
By Lesley Clayton
DOUG McNAMARA’S BIODIVERSIONS
Interview by Tod Lippy
THE DESERT
By Jen Bervin
MODERN ARTIFACTS 4: DRAWING [...]

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Esopus #9

Esopus 9 (Fall 2007)

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CONTENTS:

A SHORT FILM ABOUT ANDY WARHOL
By Jim LyonsARTIST’S PROJECT: SARAH MALAKOFF
“Untitled Interiors”DECONSTRUCTING CONSTRUCTING
By David QuarfootARTIST’S PROJECT: CHARLIE WHITE
“American Blondes 2005″I’M WITH THE BAND
By Heather McPhersonFOUND OBJECT: STALAG JOURNAL
Contributed by John Limon100 FRAMES: “I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE”
by Tsai Ming-Liang; Afterword by Claire DenisARTIST’S PROJECT: KAY ROSEN
“ABC, a Primer” (removable [...]

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William Kentridge – Five Themes

With a searing body of work ranging from films and drawings to prints, sculptures, and theatrical productions, William Kentridge has offered a fresh and distinctive perspective on the contemporary social landscape, with a particular emphasis on his native South Africa. His practice of the past two decades is based on his intensive exploration of themes [...]

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