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An untamed menagerie of cinematic species can fall under the designation “underground film.” As displayed by the second Atlanta Underground Film Festival, such off-the-radar fare includes gonzo documentaries, abstract experiments in form, and enigmatic, subtitled tales from foreign lands.
Festival Director Eric Panter explains that through its program of more than 50 features and shorts, the...
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Franklin Lopez’s latest epiphany is Dumpster diving.
“You would not believe the things that stores throw out,” he says. Carousing for a wasteful nation’s castoffs is just the latest incarnation of Lopez’s desire to live outside the reach of consumer culture.
From his biodiesel car to his belief in buying locally, Lopez’s daily life is an extension of his political beliefs. Lopez is an...
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Flashbang began five years ago as an informal theme night at East Atlanta’s Fountainhead where friends in the interactive design field could show their work to their peers. Now it’s a two-part symposium / showcase of local and international designs, which takes place at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Aug. 15.
“It’s like a Chinese proverb, ‘We’re a way to do without doing,’” says Daniel...
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Blame Chicago, but we’re clearly in for a new run of glitzy, gargantuan Hollywood musicals.
The timing, then, is right for MGM’s release of the big-ass special edition DVD of West Side Story, a musical so overstated it barely fits in the two-disc set. The 1961 standard, with music by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics, represents the epitome of big-screen musical schmaltz, which...
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Filmmaker David Moore of Eyekiss Films receives a different artistic challenge every time he makes a short film for Dailies, PushPush Theater’s gonzo hybrid of stage and screen.
For Dailies III: Lost and Found, 10 stage actors, including Daniel Pettrow, Claire Bronson and Randy Cohlmia, recorded bits of dialogue or narration taken from plays or other sources. Then they each gave a recording to...
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