Roll the Tape: November 20th, 2024

Rest my case: consider The Great British Bake Off for more awards or something.

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Thanh Lieu
November 20, 2024

Good day.

I don’t know about you: I feel like hibernating.

But here we are with the itinerary for today:

  • Curated resources: night with poet/filmmaker, incredible watches from rising directors & musician behind scores, more on my fixation with bell hooks, and lots of funding/fellowship opportunities!

  • REEL TALK Preview: filmmaker on human absurdity and dismantling toxic masculinity, brick-by-brick.

  • My recs: music, short film, current read!

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Evolve with Art: Curated Resources

I’m actually pretty proud with this list.

Upcoming Events & Fellowship Opportunities:

Essential Watches:

Grants, Fundings, Fellowships

Upcoming Reel Talk: MAZIYAR KHATAM

This has to be THE conversation that has me laughing the most, and I can’t wait for you all to read it.

Maz is an incredibly witty and nuanced filmmaker/actor who doesn’t shy away from spotlighting the absurdity of human experiences. Now that I think about it, we’re all pretty absurd.

Open access to Maz’s films with Funny Bones Pictures founded by Maziyar Khatam, Anya Chirkova, Tyler Mason.

  • Baba: Sundance Film Festival - 2023 | A middle-aged Iranian man makes a desperate bid to keep his apartment, as his relationship with his son unravels.

  • BUMP: Sundance Film Festival - 2022 | A young man's reluctance to let go of a trivial encounter leads him to seek retribution.

yay it’s us

For me, Maz’s works operate on two levels: the surface and what’s simmering beneath the comedic narratives audiences see on screen. At face value, they’re outrageously funny—case in point: The Sweater (2024).

But beneath the humor, all three of Maz’s standout films—Bump (2022), Baba (2023), and The Sweater (2024)—explore how easily a man, shaped by and operating within a patriarchal belief system, can feel emasculated. They reveal the extent to which an obsession with toxic masculinity or over-validation can corrode one’s sense of self-worth.

And we’re going to talk all about it in this Saturday’s Reel Talk, released @10:00AM PST.

Films, Music, Reads: What I’ve Been Up To

A little roundup of what I’ve been consuming!

Incredible visual. Stray Dogs (2013), directed by Tsai Ming-liang

A quote from King’s book on “slow” cinema that I find very intriguing. This part of the chapter discusses the slowness of cinema, juxtaposing the Malaysian filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs with Hollywood’s conventional intensified continuity and pacing.

Aesthetic minimalist is viewed here as a means of conveying to the viewer something of the experience of minimal living conditions. The arguments in these examples have the merit of not seeking to over-claim at the level of the likely effect of any such dimensions. As Jaffe suggests, broader ‘slowness’ movements, with which slow cinema is associated, often lean in a leftward direction, in their opposition to aspects of global capitalism and its impact.

Stay Connected

That’s it for today. Remember that it’s okay to hibernate - we all have to go through it at some point.

AND tune in to read our conversation this Saturday.

Talk soon x.

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