by Meg Onli | Apr 6, 2010 | Blog
“Japanese American Black Panther Party founding member†reads at first like a mislabel in the description of the 2009 documentary AOKI. Mike Cheng and Ben Wang chronicle  the life of Richard Aoki (1938-2009) from his early years in a WWII internment camp through...
by Meg Onli | Apr 6, 2010 | Blog
Recently I have begun to read  a journal based out of the University of Texas called Velvet Light Trap. In issue #60, entitled Documentary Now, Jaimie Baron has an essay, Contemporary Documentary Film and “Archive Fever”: History, the Fragment, the Joke...
by Meg Onli | Mar 30, 2010 | Blog
Threat Level and the Nightingale will be presenting CHANNELING: an invocation of spectral bodies and queer spirits curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White. Doors 7:00, Screening 7:30 $5-10 sliding scale 1084 N. Milwaukee via CHANNELING CHANNELING is an entryway...
by Meg Onli | Mar 30, 2010 | Blog
For this week’s pick we bring you some silent footage of Mark Twain at his home in Stormfield, CT, in the early 1900’s. This film was shot by Thomas Edison and shows Twain walking around his estate and playing cards with his daughter.
by Meg Onli | Mar 23, 2010 | Blog
Back in November I posted James Blagden’s awesome animation “Dock Ellis & the LSD No No”. The video had been produced by the New York based company No Mas. Recently, No Mas has teamed up with David Rathman to produce not only a set of prints...