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Dilla Time (2022)Dilla Time by Dan Charnas Short excerpt from the brilliantly researched book by the premier J Dilla (James Yancey) scholar. Making beats is always a conversation between producers, and between the present and the past. James’s tracks in the 1990s … Continue reading
Witches and the Origins of Capitalism (1 hour 51 minutes, 2023)
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scriptCapitalism and the Witchhunt Part One 1200-1450 The future is composed merely of images of the past. Every country has this in common: some citizens are recognized as human, while others are not. The economy of the Roman Empire, for … Continue reading
Witches and the Origins of Capitalism (1 hour 51 minutes, 2023)
descriptionBased on Silvia Federici’s groundbreaking book Caliban and the Witch, this essay collage describes the economic shift from a peasant economy into capitalism. The most severe global pandemic in history led to a golden age of peasantry, filled with new … Continue reading
Ask the Animals (60 minutes, 2023)
stills Ask the Animals (60 minutes, 2023)
descriptionA wordless essay, presented in a suite of master shots, offering glimpses of animal societies in motion. Moments of the everyday include cycles of eating, loving, fighting and playing. These liminal and fast disappearing collectives are a living hauntology, a … Continue reading
Uber (23 minutes, 2023)
stills Uber (23 minutes, 2023)
scriptWhen I was six years old, my father fell in love with a word. He and my mother had stopped having sex, and this word became a kind of substitute. The more he wanted the sex he couldn’t have any … Continue reading
Uber (23 minutes, 2023)
descriptionThe ride-sharing app Uber swept through my city like a tidal wave, overturning decades of immigrant taxi drivers working impossible hours to provide for their families. I met scientists, researchers, engineers, even a doctor who was waiting for his papers. … Continue reading
Letter to Fred (10:06 minutes, 2023)
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