Editor's Note, 4/10
(04/10/14 8:38am)
My friend asked me this past weekend, “What do you think is the biggest way that you’ve grown during your time here?”
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My friend asked me this past weekend, “What do you think is the biggest way that you’ve grown during your time here?”
More than 90 different films, new and old, were meticulously selected for the 17th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The downtown Durham-based festival, a program of Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, begins this Thursday, April 3, and ends Sunday, April 6.
This Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Reynolds Industries Theater, audience members will have the opportunity to see six individual creative visions all in one night.
Dir. Hayao MiyazakiStudio Ghibli4.5/5 stars
Dir. Wes AndersonScott Rudin Productions4/5 stars
A few aspects stand out in particular when we look at Durham today. There’s the homegrown, DIY aesthetic; the arts scene, which we never fail to laud for its vibrant and collaborative nature; the creative entrepreneurship (which demands some oomph); and the community to tie it all together.
Angel Olsen4/5 stars
Starting on Saturday night, several students will write, direct and perform in a series of plays within the span of just 24 hours.
Dir. Paolo SorrentinoJanus Films4.5/5 stars
This Friday and Saturday, Brooklyn-based dance company Urban Bush Women will perform at the Reynolds Industries Theater.
It’s been a little over a year since I started writing regularly for Recess. I've gotten better at having my work scrutinized. My writing has become more deliberate and convincing. But one thing that's been especially difficult, as was the case for this note, is trying to express something when nothing formative, or moving, or thought-provoking has happened. There's a period of stagnancy, and I can only assume that anything I scrape out from the ether will be ingenuine and disappointing. Thumbing through all the things I might talk about (for a while I figured I would examine tattoos as an art form), I start to reflect on how I've grown. These are some of the things I’ve learned, and am still learning:
Staring at the viewer from his 1933 “Self-Portrait (Myself at Work)” is Archibald J. Motley Jr., a painter who here, donning a navy beret, long triangular mustache and thick tan bohemian jacket, paints a nude woman. His room has a few relics: a small cross on the wall, an elephant statue, a small bottle of alcohol and a palette spotted with bold and blended paints.
In their ongoing efforts to introduce a diverse range of perspectives to the Duke community, The Archive will feature novelist, essayist and short story writer, Zadie Smith, as part of the 2014 Blackburn Literary Festival. The event, which includes a reading, signing and Q&A, will be Jan. 30 in the Von der Heyden Pavilion.
When Spoken Verb, Duke’s premier slam poetry and spoken word group, decided to honor the legacy and vision of MLK, they focused on the power of his language in capturing audiences and imparting truth.
M833.5/5 stars
Pinned to the outside of SoHo’s New Museum is the 4,000-pound and 30 foot long ‘Ghost Ship,’ a black-hulled modern yacht. The crewless and self-navigating sailboat took a five-day, 330-mile trip around the United Kingdom before taking its current spot as an installation above the museum entrance. And so we are welcomed into New York City’s only exclusively contemporary art museum and into the retrospective of Chris Burden’s career of testing moral, physical and artistic boundaries.
4.5/5 starsAndrew Bird
In the world of underground house balls, extravagance and 'realness' reign supreme. And at the Center for Documentary Studies reigns “Legendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene,” the compilation of black-and-white and color photographs by Gerard H. Gaskin, winner of the 2012 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.
An artist wears his work in place of wounds. Here then is a glimpse of the sores of my generation.
Best CoastJewel City2.5/5 stars