Hoop Springs Eternal

Here's our short documentary Hoop Springs Eternal. Enjoy, and share with your hooping friends. Feel free to embed it on a blog, Tweet it, Facebook it, or complain about it to your circle of friends.

Hoop Springs Eternal

Hoop Springs Eternal is now available to watch free, online at SnagFilms. The film follows professional hula hoopers Loren Bidner and Jenny McGowan. There's more about the film on IMDB.com. Be sure and give it a vote on Snag or IMDB.

Marathon Women

Many of the films from the International Documentary Challenge can now be viewed on Snagfilms. Above: Marathon Women, a 5-minute doc made by two friends of this blog for the 2007 competition. Enjoy, and remember you can "snag" the film and embed it anywhere.

William Eggleston on SnagFilms

One of my students brought up William Eggleston. And ... here he is.

(You have to be in the right mood for this. In a way, that's true about Eggleston's work as well.)

Friday Film

I mentioned this film in class last night, so ... here it is.

Blind Faith: A Film About Seeing follows the Seeing With Photography Collective, a group of blind photographers working in New York. (You need Flash installed to see the video player above.)

Click the player above, or you can also see the film at: SnagFilms. (If you click "snag this film" you can embed it on any site.)

Blind Faith: A Film About Seeing

Blind Faith: A Film About Seeing follows the Seeing With Photography Collective, a group of blind photographers working in New York. (You need Flash installed to see the video player above.)

Click the player above, or you can also see the film at: SnagFilms. (If you click "snag this film" you can embed it on any site.)

Snagged

Blind Faith: A Film About Seeing is now on Snagfilms.

Apparently the International Doc Challenge is putting up some of the films from that event. So you might as well watch it. It's free. It's made with a mix of standard video combined with a stop-motion technique, made by shooting black and white stills at about three frames-per-second.

Blind Faith: A Film About Seeing

Now on Snagfilms.

Speaking of "Dig!"

It turns out you can watch "Dig!" for free, via snagfilms. Enjoy.

Protagonist

Lately I've been focused on interview-based films.

One of the best I've seen in the last few years is Jessica Yu's "Protagonist." It's now on Snagfilms, so you can watch it for free, right here. Set aside an hour and give it a chance -- I really like the weaving of the stories, and the subtext of the traditional concerns of Greek drama: character and fate....

Great puppets, also.

The Kinda Sutra

I'm a big Jessica Yu fan. So here's a three-minute documentary she made (funded by Cinelan, shown via Snagfilms) on how babies are made. Sorta. I love the setting for the interviews. Enjoy.