Just wanted to say: Great event!!

It was a pleasure having everyone out at Galapagos. Looking forward to a great summer season.

Check out another BFC chapter as they finish their season at Union Docs this Thursday. Doors open at 8:30p, $10 for all the beer you can drink!

best thoughts, 

--Graham 

Cinema of Transgression Manifesto
by Nick Zedd
We who have violated the laws, commands and duties of the avant-garde;
i.e. to bore, tranquilize and obfuscate through a fluke process
dictated by practical convenience stand guilty as charged.

Tribeca FF and Apple are hosting some major film discussions at their SoHo store for FREE including :

Just wanted to bring up that the tickets are going on sale this Saturday for AmEx card holders and on sale on Monday for everyone else.  These will go fast. 

Lots of good docs, shorts, features, etc.

Dogme 95.. is a collective offilm directors founded in Copenhagen in spring 1995.DOGME 95 has the expressedgoal of countering “certain tendencies” in the cinema today.

This is the manifesto by Manny Farber, written in 1962. Since disavowed by Farber, this piece has nonetheless continues to be influential.

I'm honored to christen the blog with excerpts from one of my favorite thinkers : Felix Guatarri. This is part one of a two-part post arguing for a conception of film seperate from the paradigm of a story.

These are excerpts from two articles - "Cinema of Desire" (1973) and "Poor Man's Couch" (1975)