A MESSAGE TO
OUR READERS:
Open Call for Submissions
At our discretion, we will often go outside the realm of digital
documentary film, digital narrative film, and digital documentary
photography. We will allow, in fact encourage, the discussion of
everything to do with films and still photography wherever it
originates and wherever it lands. This can be in a theater, on TV, a
film festival, home video, DVD, VHS, a museum, a gallery, the
Internet, even from a foreign shore – although because of the Web
and the virtual world it inhabits, a foreign shore is something that
no longer exists.
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THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
is the remarkable true story of Jean-Dominique
Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), a successful and charismatic
editor-in-chief of French Elle, who believes he is living
his life to its absolute fullest when a sudden stroke leaves
him in a life-altered state. While the physical challenges
of Bauby's fate leave him with little hope for the future,
he begins to discover how his life's passions, his rich
memories and his newfound imagination can help him achieve a
life without boundaries. Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski's
work on this film earned him a 2008 Academy Award
nomination.
Camera Review: The Canon
XL H1
By Dirck Halstead
Canon has always taken a "wait and see"
attitude when
it comes to introducing its new video products. Then, once
it has determined the direction the market is going in, they do
their homework, and come up with something that is beyond anything the competition has. Such is the case with the new Canon XL H1.
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Panasonic AG-HVX-200 P2 Camcorder Review
By Bill Southworth
I should begin by pointing out that I’m fairly new to video. My idea
of a camera has always been a Leica M6 hanging over my shoulder
and
extra rolls of film in my pocket. Now, as a burgeoning documentary
maker, I find myself loaded down with bags of lighting, tripods,
sound equipment, and cameras. For music videos, I frequently have a
whole car full of equipment for multi-camera shoots. That said, I
come to the task of evaluating the Panasonic HVX-200 with a
particular point of view. I like simple, rugged cameras that produce
gorgeous pictures. The HVX-200 is in my comfort zone.
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The Journalistic Orphans of
Magnum Photographer Jonas Bendiksen
By Ron Steinman
After only 10 years in the business, Jonas Bendiksen has a fully
developed philosophy of photography. In his words, "I love working
on stories that get left behind in the race for daily
headlines—journalistic orphans."
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Katrina: Another View
Text and Photographs by
Edward Richards
As things settled down in Baton Rouge, and security was relaxed on
the flooded areas, which was about two months after the storm, I
started systematically exploring the entire region affected by
Katrina, from Ocean Spring, Mississippi, which is just east of
Biloxi, to Grand Isle, Louisiana, which is west and south of New
Orleans.
What I saw was both amazing and frightening.
I started
documenting the damage with my 4x5....
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Coal Hollow
Photographs By Ken Light
Reviewed
By J.B. Colson
"If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine we
call modern America, then before God I assert that those who consume
coal and you and I who benefit from that service because we live in
comfort, we owe protection to those men first, and we owe security to
their families if they die."
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The past two years have been very interesting for
photographer Alec Soth, a period of time in which he has gone from
being an unknown to fame after his exceptional book Sleeping by the
Mississippi was released in 2004.... Read more>
Filmmaker Dan Krauss' award-winning documentary
The Death of Kevin Carter
tells the story behind Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photograph
(right). The Bang Bang Club is a book by his colleagues who covered the
violence of the last years of South Africa's apartheid regime. View a
gallery of photographs and excerpts from the book. Read more>
