Film Review: The Giverny Document (Single Channel) Directed, edited, and animated by Ja’Tovia Gary. U.S./France, 2019, 42 min. Seen at the Camden International Film Festival. Playing other festivals currently ahead of gallery exhibition and further distribution. For information on upcoming screenings, see jatovia.com. Earlier this year Ja’Tovia Gary presented two of her short […]
INTERVIEW: CIFF PROGRAMMING TEAM
The programming for the Camden International Film Festival, which exclusively hosts nonfiction movies, is guided by three individuals: senior programmer Samara Chadwick, program director Sean Flynn, and executive director/artistic director/founder Ben Fowlie. While in the process of drafting a story about the festival, I sent them some questions, and then some more, and so on, […]
FILM REVIEW: TWO BY JA’TOVIA GARY AT THE HFA
The Harvard Film Archive began the “Cinema of Resistance” series in May 2017, with the programmer at the time, David Pendleton, offering something of a mission statement in the notes accompanying the first screening. “Cinema has always been a method of examining the world the way it is, in order to understand it, to begin […]
