Jon Beaton

The Carrier Bag Theory of Nonfiction Filmmaking: What Documentarians Can Learn from Ursula K. Le Guin I teach documentary studies and production at the Skidmore College MDOCS program and run the MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute. When non-tenure track faculty recently organized to form a union…

“People fight themselves and one another, and their stories are full of their struggles. But to say that that IS the story is to use one aspect of existence, conflict, to subsume all other aspects, many of which it does not include and does not comprehend.”

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21.09.2025 14:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

UbuWeb Papers: Georges Perec - The Infra-Ordinary (1973)

Question your teaspoons.

www.ubu.com/papers/perec...

20.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This fun experiment, which seems quite niche at first, provides mindblowing insight into how perspective works and why camera lenses see something similar to what our eyes see.

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22.08.2025 21:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting insight into how @criterion.bsky.social do their restorations. This was already 11 years ago so I imagine some things may have changed since then
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odjq...

28.07.2025 13:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A video still from Media Burn by Ant Farm showing artist Doug Hall performing the role of a so-called artist-president in the likeness of J.F. Kennedy

"Now I ask you, fellow Americans, haven't you ever wanted to put your foot through your television screen?"

Doug Hall performing the role of a so-called 'artist-president' in the likeness of J.F. Kennedy.

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26.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Earth’s underground networks of fungi need urgent protection, say researchers Study finds that only 9.5% of fungal biodiversity hotspots fell within existing protected areas

“They cycle nutrients, store carbon, support plant health, and make soil. When we disrupt these critical ecosystem engineers, forest regeneration slows, crops fail and biodiversity above ground begins to unravel … "

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

26.07.2025 10:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Waiting for the Barbarians Because the barbarians are coming today. Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader. Because the barbarians are coming today and things like that dazzle ...

Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?

Because the barbarians are coming today.
What’s the point of senators making laws now?

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/...

02.05.2025 09:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

David Byrne's True Stories came out in 1986 and is one of my favourite films. The same year this performance was captured. Seems to be based on the same cut-up approach that his film was based on and certainly has some of the same spirit.

21.02.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Started microdosing dignity. No noticeable effects so far.

25.01.2025 00:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fun experiment and beautiful results! I wish more people were working on this. #veganfilm #filmmaking

14.01.2025 13:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

early animation on 35mm for magic lanterns

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