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...disliking one of these films would have bordered on cruelty. Don't think that I have a problem with being harsh. It's just that when I watch a Hollywood movie, I feel that I can hate it without hurting any particular person. Filmmaking is such a labor intensive artform that a film doesn't get a second chance to be made. Watching these films was like reading the filmmakers' diaries; I could not separate the product from the agent behind...
...These films did not emerge whole from the minds of their creators alone. Like all films, these do depend on a network of support. "Film is an artform that demands a network, a support system," notes Rice. "You need money, equipment, people to show the work to. The artform that is closest to film is architecture. It's a massive undertaking." Organizations like the Boston Film/Video Foundation (which produces the festival) provide a network of material resources that support independent projects. But, as Rice points out, film demands an audience like no other artform. It is hard to find...
...This playwright-director dialectic may in fact be fundamental to the nature of modern theater as an artform which focuses on the depiction of conflict. But that hardly stops theater practitioners from debating the issue. And, unfortunately, the contentions about personal priviledge so often heard in this debate would seem to do more harm than good for all involved. "A production belongs to its director," I've been told. "He or she has the right to make whatever changes are necessary to create a unified vision." Or from the other side of the battlefield: "Only the playwright really knows...
Campaigning could be difficult. "I have yet to elevate door knocking to an artform," Braude admits. "Having a door shut in your face is not necessarily a pleasant experience...
Since its heyday during the Beat Generation and the Psychedelic Sixties, poetry reading has dropped out of sight into a few scattered coffee-houses around the Boston are. As part of their continuing efforts to revive interest in the artform of the spoken word, the "Sidewalk Poets" held their second annual "Poetry in the Park" series of readings in the Boston Common last weekend...