November 13, 2008
September 15, 2006
my country my country?
Laura Poitras, a Peabody award winning filmmaker, who credits her vision to that of Frederick Wiseman and the brilliant Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, travelled to Baghdad on her own, without protection, contacts or knowledge of the language, to make a documentary about the elections there. She got inimitable access—in one scene, she is filming a black market arms deal between an Australian mercenary and a Afghani.
August 28, 2006
Mexico is somewhere down there
This week I am doing an interview about the photographs of (and love affair between) Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. The images were taken during the several years they lived together in Mexico. They're very pretty, very quintessential Mexico. And an insightful friend asked, "What are these images NOT showing?"
