Media Praxis

Funding Microbudget Queer Cinema

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
July 13, 2010 – 01:24

I just returned from an Owls screening at Outfest. As I’ve written here, the film cost about $25K, raised by small donations from its producers and the generous support of our distributors, The Collaborative. ... read more »

AIDS Video and Censorship

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
July 12, 2010 – 11:22

My article, “AIDS Video: To Dream and Dance with the Censor” has been recently published at Jump Cut.

Brenton Maart, from Temporary Architecture ... read more »

For Neda: Verite in Context

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
June 22, 2010 – 12:36

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Contractual Mayhem: On the Absurdities of Moving from Paper to ...

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
June 11, 2010 – 13:13

I am currently negotiating my contract with MIT Press to “publish” my “video-book” about YouTube this Fall. ... read more »

Documenting the Documenters, Take Two: Owls ‘n Hooters

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
June 09, 2010 – 12:01

The Owls, the collective, experimental docu/fiction lesbian thriller that I produced is showing, now, all over the world.

Look for June US screenings in SF and LA. The docu-comedy, Hooters, about making “The Owls” is also playing, mirroring, and hooting along-side. ... read more »

Documenting the Documenters: More from the AIDS Activist Archive

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
June 05, 2010 – 12:18

I had the opportunity to view screeners of two new AIDS documentaries: Sex in an Epidemic (Jean Carlomusto) and ACT UP New York Highlights: I (Jim Hubbard, Sarah Schulman, and James Wentzy), thanks to their distributor, ... read more »

Lady Professor Sings the Blues

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
June 01, 2010 – 20:09

My last post skirted the issue, saying I was “too busy” to perform my professorial labors properly: the hard work of “unpacking” lady Gaga. Ha. ... read more »

I’m Kinda Busy

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
May 24, 2010 – 19:39

Hello, hello baby. I’m kinda busy right now and don’t have mental or maybe psychic energy to draw the links between pop music, homo-erotic war-play, ritual violence, and love.

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The Views of the Feminist Archive

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
May 21, 2010 – 15:31

Please go to “Flow’s” Special Issue on The Archive to see a slightly modified selection (“The Views of the Feminist Archive”) from my longer essay “A Process Archive: The Grand Circularity of Woman’s Building Video,” which will be published in 2011 in the catalog for Doin’ it in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, one of 15 Getty sponsored art shows, ... read more »

YouTube at 5: What’s it to you?

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
May 17, 2010 – 12:36

You probably watch it more than you did (15 mins/day according to LA Times.)

You notice there are more ads, both before videos, and scattered around the page (yet they still haven’t figured out how to really make a buck).

Your favorite video has a better chance of getting pulled due to copyright infringement (thank god for YouTomb!) ... read more »