PDX Fever
Greetings Illiterati. Your friendly neighborhood film editor is here blogging from the amazing Portland, OR. (okay, okay, I wrote this blog from Portland but now I am back in amazing Colorado). "But why are you in Portland, Isis?" "Good Question. It is because I just attended the BEST FILM FESTIVAL EVER !" "What film festival was that?" "The PDX Film Festival !" Ok. But Seriously. The Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival was hands down one of the greatest experiences I have had. Boulder is home of the late, great Stan Brakhage and has a pretty dense population of experimental film lovers, but the Portland locals gave us a run for ou...Read more
Hate to Love YouTube
The other night I had an uncontrollable urge to show my friend a short film I knew he would love. I hopped on youtube, pulled the film up, and pressed play. The quality was so horrible that I groaned to him that we should turn it off while he reassured me he could tell what was happening and was getting the gist of it. I squirmed, while he watched, and in the end he loved what I had shared and was pumped on the filmmaker. As the film editor here on illiteratemagazine.com it is my job to love on film so much that you, my ever loyal readers, will begin to love on film as much as I do. Because we are not in a classroom and I do not have an infinite reserve of 16mm and 35mm ...Read more
Welcome to the ILLITERATE Film Blog
Hi. My name is Isis and I love the moving image. I studied experimental film, animation, video, and installation art at the University of Colorado. Unbeknownst to me I was stumbling onto the legacy of Stan Brakhage - the founder of the program- and film for me was never the same. Suddenly there was an entire world beyond the theater, and even beyond narrative structure, that I never knew existed. I feel like I came into myself as an artist (with still much more growth to come) as well as learned to appreciate all different flavors of the moving image. While on a typical Friday night you might catch me at the local megaplex, that is not what this blog is about (okay, maybe it will be sometime...Read more
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