Film - Think

I am happy to see my first piece up at Curator Magazine. I have long been an advocate of the International Arts Movement, and am happy to be at least a small part of what goes on there. At this point, I have monthly contributions scheduled, which will help with the overflow of upcoming screenings and DVD screeners.

A little snippet:

In all of these films there is a looming presence of places: real streets, cafés, and bits of geographical lore that persist beyond the imagination of these storied tours. They are films intent on celebrating their chosen landscapes rather than using them to concoct the kind of infectious screenscapes Baudrillard discovered all over Hollywood. And though only one of these films actually takes place in an American city, they inform us nonetheless. We step out of theaters after films like this into St. Louis, Boston, Austin, or any other hazardously American city armed with ways to look at our neighborhoods and daily routines in similarly thoughtful ways.