#mfa in drama

[lauriemarch]

Moodboard of a winter quarter in the life of a master’s student! Photos from everywhere that has a special place in my heart– the backstage of a play, board & brew, the ocean, and with people i love <3

#quarter in question was CRAZY! #so much happened! i am happy to be alive! #moodboard #mfa in drama #master of fine arts #dark academia #light academia #studyblr #booklr #studying #light acadamia aesthetic #study notes #book blog #little women #poetry #theatre

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

i've been out of academia so long (less than a year) that i forgot there were various citation styles

#anyway chicago ftw #mla is okay I GUESS #apa is annoying af #i saw a poll about it and that's why i'm thinking about it #haunted bc the two departments i was a student of only accepted extremely specific styles of citation #(IHS for history and a semi-adapted version of Chicago for German) #i miss the self-hatred i'd generate adding all the information into the footnotes AFTER writing my piece #idk man i think in terms of academia i'm a bit of a masochist LOL #also i just miss not having drama w my profs??? one dude tried to make my life so hard for no damn reason #and then i slayed while simultaneously proving i had a backbone and he was so taken aback by that #i hope the prof nearly the entire class had a crush on is doing well <3 #we nicknamed ourselves [Prof's name]'s Angels #...y'know...like Charlie's Angels... #anyway yeah lol #roacc #Y'ALL I'M AFRAID I'LL END UP GOING FOR A MASTERS BC IK IF I TRY GO FOR A MASTERS THEN I'LL END UP W A PHD #IDEK WHAT I'D WANNA DO A MASTERS IN LET ALONE PHD #but like if i do go for MA/MFA then I mean what's the point in stopping there ya get me?

[demarogue]

#started my MFA and can I just say there was a LOT of drama in the 18th-19th century design world #and I kinda wanna talk about it but not if it bores everyone LOL

[comradekatara]

In your modern au who in the gang goes to college/grad school and what subjects do they study? would they end up at schools close to home or go far away? How do there relationships change after highschool and with people moving away?

okay wow that’s a great question but also. a lot.

aang is a year below katara so his top choice school is just. the school katara goes to. it’s small and affordable and he studies philosophy and religion (but also takes any sort of fun elective offered to him) and joins a lot of clubs and makes a lot of friends and generally just has a nice time. he and katara overlap for three years but after she graduates they still live together, so he basically sees her every day anyway. it’s nice :)

katara genuinely considers not going to college but then she gets a sports scholarship she’d be a fool to reject so she’s like “fine, i’ll go, but i’m gonna phone it in the entire time.” she assumes that college will basically just be like high school, yet another prison where she will be forced to do math against her will. but she actually finds that she kind of enjoys some of her classes, and she can devote way more time to sports, and azula isn’t there (a weight has been lifted off her shoulders truly), and she actually meets a whole group of people who don’t find her intimidating and abrasive, but instead share her interests and actually organize with her. also, the fact that sokka isn’t there means that she doesn’t constantly have to compare herself to an impossible standard, and she finds that she actually enjoys learning when she gets to go at her own pace. and in fact…. she’s actually a great writer???? and really enjoys theory and philosophy and criticism and history and sociology and literature????? and she might actually be really fucking smart????? she graduates with honors. but there’s absolutely no way she’s pursuing grad school lmao. everyone knows that shit is a scam.

sokka goes to princeton for undergrad because, and i quote, “it’s nearby.” full ride, obviously. he double majors in physics and engineering, and also accidentally fulfills an art history minor without even noticing. everyone assumes that he’ll get a phd (at least one), but katara keeps insisting that grad school is a scam and so is the ivy league. and it’s not even that sokka necessarily disagrees with her, he just thinks that those are bold words coming from the girl who fell for a pyramid scheme. twice.

zuko goes to a small liberal arts college for undergrad and spends years attempting to justify his choice of going to a smaller, slightly less prestigious school by majoring in something dignified and respectable, like econ or business or engineering. none of which he is any good at. but eventually, after enough time spent beyond ozai’s purview, zuko just goes “fuck it” and double majors in theater and classics. his focus is on ancient greek drama. he then does a poetry mfa wherein he attempts to write on earth we’re briefly gorgeous without just rewriting on earth we’re briefly gorgeous (many such cases). he complains about his program constantly and how fake and pretentious it all is, but anyone who knows him can tell that it’s clearly the most fun he’s ever had.

suki doesn’t go to college. she figures that there’s no point in blowing money she doesn’t have and wasting precious valuable years of her time getting a fancy little bachelor’s degree she’ll never use for a job that doesn’t actually require one. and she doesn’t have any adult figures in her life to convince her that college is necessary (although sokka does spend a full week going “but are you sure…?” before suki realizes that she can just shut him up forever by claiming she can’t afford it). she continues to teach at the dojo, but because she basically already lives in her truck, she’s always driving over to princeton to crash in sokka’s dorm. she spends a lot of time just hanging out in the library while he does work, and finds that she doesn’t even need to go to classes to learn new things by herself. it’s funny how a formal education can make learning seem so much less interesting than it actually is. if she had actually gone to college, she probably would’ve spent the entire time blowing off classes and doing as little work as possible, but since she has no incentive to learn, she actually does. by the time sokka has graduated, suki is basically qualified to practice medicine, could tell you the entire history of the inca empire, and is basically an expert in mycology. and it didn’t cost a cent.

toph considers suki an inspiration, and by the time she graduates, she is already so estranged from her parents that she also has the agency to just blow off that whole thing. she moves in with sokka and mai and just follows them around. she sits in on their lectures whenever she feels like it (they claim she is mai’s little sister who is visiting her), and otherwise just kind of lounges about. occasionally sokka will be like “you know you could’ve just… gone to this school, right??? you’re literally a child prodigy and your parents are crazy rich.” to which toph just shrugs like “yeah……but nah.”

mai goes to princeton with sokka. it wasn’t even her top choice school, but once she realized that it’s where sokka was going, she couldn’t think of anywhere else that she would rather be. they’re roommates since freshman year and are basically inseparable. everyone assumes they’re dating, but sokka’s like “nah she’s gay, she’s just really clingy :)” which mai hates because he’s totally ruining her street cred. she’s a cs major, but she basically accumulates the credits for a math minor, a physics minor, and an english minor because all the cs classes are so easy for her (she first taught herself how to code when she was like six). sokka somehow convinces her to join his physics program for grad school, but after a year she drops out because she finds it so miserable. they continue living together, of course, while mai gets really into making esoteric indie games. zuko doesn’t really understands how video games work, but she still bounces her ideas off him because he’s the most ruthless critic she knows.

ty lee goes to college because it’s the sort of thing a girl from a decently respectable family does, but she’s pretty envious of suki’s lifestyle and wishes she could just blow off the entire thing. she goes to a decent school, one that appears acceptable on resumes but not so elite that it will raise any employer’s standards too high; she enjoys being underestimated. being in an entirely new environment gives her the opportunity to test out new personas free of consequence, and eventually she realizes that she’s kind of wasting her talents by pretending to be dumber than she is, so she actually applies herself and does really well. but then she gets bored of applying herself because now everyone expects too much of her and she misses when a B was considered a good grade. she’s technically a dance major because it’s the only thing she does consistently across three years (she graduates early), but she goes through different phases where she’s really into various fields, including but not limited to: abnormal psych, quantum physics, philosophical ethics, north african literature, microbiology, and women’s rugby. she keeps in touch with azula, mai, and suki, but she also just goes through phases of avoiding contact with all her former friends entirely. it’s fun to be aloof.

and last but certainly not least, azula goes to harvard for undergrad, and then harvard law. in fact, there is no other school azula could ever go to. even if she had lived on the other side of the globe, and not new jersey (or as she likes to call it, “manhattan”), azula would still go to harvard. she truly believes that it is the only school on earth capable of withstanding her towering intellect. anyone who found her insufferable in high school is in for a rude surprise once they realize that within a semester, harvard has somehow made her ten times worse. she’s technically pre-law, but she also studies pre-med and engineering, just in case. which is far too much for any one human to handle, and she ends up suffering a nervous breakdown during junior year where she eats nothing but cheetos for a week straight and tries to cut her own bangs with a pair of kiddie scissors. zuko and sokka go to cambridge to stage an intervention (mai and ty lee were too busy washing their hair that weekend) and help her out. you can tell it’s bad because she actually agrees to go to therapy. eventually she gets through it and decides to take a gap year before law school. she spends her gap year as a paralegal at a highly prestigious firm, and within the first couple years of graduating law school, she makes junior partner there. and they never speak of the cheetos and uneven bangs incident ever again.

in terms of who keeps in touch with whom, obviously mai, sokka, suki, and toph still hang out all the time after high school. mai and sokka are roommates for their entire twenties basically, and toph and suki pretty much also live with them. mai and sokka move to new york after princeton. and after zuko graduates, he also moves in with them. aang and katara sort of resist the idea of living in a big city, and instead decide to travel the world after aang graduates. but then when they go to visit sokka & co. katara realizes that it’s always secretly been her lifelong dream to work at a really cute little overpriced coffeeshop in brooklyn, and so she and aang get an apartment in like. red hook or something. ty lee actually moves to california, so they all assume they won’t see her often, but she flies back every time one of her sisters has a birthday, so they actually run into her pretty frequently. eventually she moves back to the east coast, and pretty soon after that she and mai uhaul together. none of them really hear from azula except for mai and ty lee, who are in a semi-active groupchat with her. but she and zuko reconnect after ozai’s funeral, and she gradually befriends the rest of the gaang, even if she never quite gets along with katara. so yeah, there are a few years where most of them don’t really talk to one another, but eventually they do manage to reconnect and stay in each other’s lives. they do all make other friends though. god could you imagine.

#averyho #asks #the gaang and #modern au #this was a fun one #the inherent comedy of being from new jersey. etc. etc.

[harkeepitreal]

I want to clear some stuff up. What is going with Tim and Lucy is NOT necessary this much angst does NOT need to happen. It doesn't take a lot to write stories like this. It takes talent to be able to write characters not having so many conflicts. This is not realistic. So yes this much AGNST is NOT necessary it is ridiculous. If they were a real couple and fighting this much I would question why are they still together. I get it couples have their ups and downs and they do fight. But if you have ever seen a happy, healthy relationship it is not like this. We had one episode of fighting then make up then back to fighting again. That is not real life and if it is then they really need to re-evaluate whether they belong together or not.

I studied film and television in college I hold two college degrees in film and television including an MFA. I have studied film and television my entire life. I have written, produced, directed, edited, starred in, created my own sound tracks and scores for both film and television. I have even built a show from the ground up. I know what I am talking about this much AGNST is not necessary at all or is not realistic.

When you take screenwriting classes (one of my best friends is a writer and holds an MHA and has also written scripts) says the same thing I do there are ways to write drama with out having people fight all the time. In screenwriting class they ask you 3 basic questions: 1) What is the story? 2) What are you trying to say? 3) How are you going to tell this story, is it with Humor, Drama, song and dance, Sci Fi, etc? I was taught by some of the best Indy filmmakers and screenwriters in the business.

I will never forget a time in college. For one of my screen writing classes I wrote a script that was about what happened to Cinderella after she married the prince. I did exactly what so many people unfortunately love I made it all angsty, fighting etc...and my professor almost failed me. He told me you don't need to write like this it is not necessary for it to be a great script. This was coming from an award winning Indy filmmaker. So I was lucky enough that he allowed me to rewrite the script and I did with a lot less AGNST and you know what I aced the project. Afterwards he said to me now this is how you write a script. It had humor, heart, and a tiny bit of conflict. After the rewrite he said it was one of the best scripts he had read from a student in a long time, because there was NOT so much drama and angst. I kept in touch with him over the years and we had many conversations about this until he passed away and he agreed this much AGNST is NOT necessary.

There are ways to get them to the point that they need to be at and keep them happy. For example: Let them actually have a conversation instead of fighting or accusations flying around. Let them go and talk to a therapist, etc... But that takes to much effort no it is much easier to write fighting.

Look at Monica and Chandler on Friends yes they had their fights on occasion but for a majority of the time they were happy and OMG they were together for 5 seasons. Same with Booth and Brennan, Castle and Beckett, Tom and B'elanna on STVOY they had the occasional fight but for the majority of the time they were happy. All those shows lasted for years after they got together. So it can be done. So don't BS me and tell me it can't be done.

The other issue we as Americans are so preconditioned to accept this on our tvs and films. If there is no drama filled happening people get bored. It makes me ask do people start drama in their relationships when things are going great because they get bored? I am sure some people do but not everyone that is unhealthy. The occasional conflict can happen even in a comedy but this is ridiculous. I know drama fills seats etc... but it doesn't have to if we say no we don't want this anymore. Happy relationships are not condosive of so much fighting, drama and AGNST. You want to see that crap go and watch all the garbage reality shows.

Rant done!!! Love to all ❤️❤️❤️❤️

#chenford #lucy chen #the rookie #tim bradford #hoping for a season 7 renewal #agnst #Drama does not need to happen like this

[blackgirlsuperherorants]

One more thing:

People keep saying that the live action has the same runtime (or similar runtime) as the animated series, but that is ignoring the way episode structure works in TV. It's not runtime, in TV.

Before we continue, my credentials are that I have an MFA in writing for film & television and I am a commissioned writer who has written TV episodes.

ATLA had 20 completed 30-minute episodes in season 1 (I know they were more like 20 minute, but in TV writing, people refer to series as 30 minute and 1 hour. A 30-minute usually has a 20-30 minute runtime, and a 1-hour usually has a 45-60 minute runtime. Sometimes, this is referred to as comedy [30] and drama[60], but that's falling out of style now that those runtimes are not as limited to those genres anymore).

Putting 2 full 30 minutes together doesn't make a properly structured 1-hour. 1-hour episodes have a completely different structure and still have to tell a full arc in their allotted time. 8 1-hour episodes is still 8 episodes, not a mashup of 20. That would be terrible TV structure, and trust me, it would've been a worse experience for the viewer.

You don't just... mash together all 20 episodes. You HAVE to mine the episodes for the most important story elements and use them to BUILD your story. If it was 20 1-hour episodes, there would be room to expand each of the original episodes. There just isn't in an 8 episode story. I don't know if what I'm saying will make sense to people who haven't written adaptations, but I can tell you that it makes no sense to think 8 1-hour episodes is the same amount of story space as 20 30-minute episodes. Each 1-hour episode has to tell a cohesive EPISODE of the story. It has to have a beginning, middle, and end. What's more likely to happen is what did happen, which is exploring moments that weren't in the og series and combining things from the og, while just keeping the plot of the original mostly intact. Honestly, the series had way more nods to the animated series than I expected.

Honestly, I wish they had 12 episodes instead of 8, because they could've let things marinate more... but yeah, I just need it to be understood that while the runtimes are similar, they're not actually equivalent.

(And y'all, I'm just rambling while I'm taking a break from writing a different project, which is driving me nuts, so if I sound ineloquent, my bad. I will clarify how the two are different in another post, if y'all want.)

#avatar the last airbender #writing for television #writer stuff #unfortunately i keep getting hired to write historical dramas because of my grad school thesis #so no nerd content yet #but i do keep pitching to the big superhero studio so wish me luck i guess #the thing I'm writing on now is a historical musical so that's fun

[coloricioso]

Cassandra and the omphalos

Regarding Cassandra and the omphalos. In Aeschylus' Agamemnon, when Clytemnestra asks Cassandra to get inside, she says [1055] I have no time to waste with this woman here outside; for already the victims stand by the central hearth awaiting the sacrifice—a joy we never expected to be ours.

The word used for central hearth is μεσόμφαλος, which is also related to Delphi: μεσόμφα^λ-ος , ον, A.in mid-navel, central, used esp. of Apollo's shrine at Delphi,

So it's discussed that maybe Clytemnestra is mocking Cassandra by using language related to Apollo's service.

The omphalos is depicted with a net on top of it, not sure if it's exactly an agrenon (a woolen net-skirt worn by priestesses) or if the agrenon symbolizes the omphalos' woolen net. Above is a vase where Cassandra is wearing an agrenon, and in Aeschylus' and Euripides' plays we are told that Cassandra wears priestly attire, with laurel leaves that connect her to the Pythia of Delphi, as prophetic priestess.

We could also make some kind of connection between the "net" used to caught Agamemnon and the agrenon worn by Cassandra and the omphalos' net.

There are also depictions of Orestes holding the omphalos or taking refuge by it, but in this context, Orestes is meant to be physically in Delphi, inside the temple. I'm curious: why the Romans would depict Cassandra sitting on an omphalos. Were there omphaloi outside Delphi?

sources: Torn Fillets and a Broken Sceptre: Cassandra’s Costume, Props and Attributes in Ancient Greek Drama and Vase-Painting by Fabio Lo Piparo

Aeschylus' Agamemnon

Mixing bowl (bell-krater) depicting Orestes at the Delphic Omphalos MFA Boston

South Italian - Apulian Black Fury painter's Orestes crater - Classical Art Research Centre Univeristy of Oxford

ATENAS Y DELFOS: ADIVINACIÓN, LEY Y LENGUAJE EN LA ORESTÍADA* ANGUS BOWIE

#cassandra #apollo #delphi #agamemnon

[memecucker]

The Boston MFA kimono drama is honestly wild it’s like the best example of how cultural appropriation discourse is about animosity towards “multiculturalism” just with a pseudo-progressive veneer, perceived “cultural purity” from a Western perspective and not respecting cultures on their own terms as well as the ethos of “We’re gonna make your culture pure whether you want it or not” being directed against the same people the Westerners are trying to save the souls of or whatever the fuck they thought they were doing or helping with

[carlos-in-glasses]

Oversharing on the Internet

Thank you for the tag @liminalmemories21 @welcometololaland @theghostofashton @lemonlyman-dotcom @alrightbuckaroo and @bonheur-cafe ❤️

Let's prefix this with another giant grumpy baby in a gurney picture 🥰

ONE: Are you named after anyone? If you believe my mum, no. But I think it’s Karl Marx. He named all of his daughters Jenny. In the 80s/early 90s, mums in their droves rushed to name their newborn daughters Jennifer. Therefore, I have deduced I am named for the clandestine Marxist revolution going on between second-wave boomer mums. My mum denies this. She gave me an incredulous look when I asked, which seemed over the top, and claimed to have "just liked the name..." I think the first rule of the 80s Marxist Mums Revolution was to not talk about it.

TWO: When was the last time you cried? I’m not much of a crier usually, but I cried last week when I signed my boss’ leaving card and read all the other messages people had written for her. She’s someone who has had a massive, positive impact on my life and I’m so sad that she’s going.

THREE: Do you have kids? No, and I never will. Sometimes this makes me sad, but most of the time it doesn’t.

FOUR: Do you use sarcasm a lot? I save it for best.

FIVE: What sports have you played/do you play? I don’t understand this question.

SIX: What’s the first thing you notice about people? What they’re wearing. I was once on a plane sitting close to a woman who wore the most fantastic, long, colourful coat. I was so fixated on the coat that I didn’t realise the woman was Thandie Newton until we were at Heathrow.  

SEVEN: What’s your eye colour? An indeterminable grey-green-blue shade that changes depending on the light, what I’m wearing, and my mood.

EIGHT: Scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings.

NINE: Any special talents? I’m not good at anything other than creative writing. I truly am The Worst at all else. I understand it’s objective and people might disagree that I’m good at writing at all – but I mean, relative to everything else I do, it’s really all I’ve got.

TEN: Where were you born? Saaaaf London.

ELEVEN: What are your hobbies? Writing, reading, going for walks. I love movies and reading about the movies I've watched or watching video essays about them. I also really love going shopping tbh, but I don’t do it much for financial and moral reasons.

TWELVE: Do you have any pets? Alas, I am petless.

THIRTEEN: How tall are you? 5ft 7 with disproportionately long arms, to paint a picture.

FOURTEEN: Favourite subject in school? Drama and art. I’m lousy at art and got a D for A-level, but was given a special award from my school for the sheer amount of effort I put in. Hahaha god.

FIFTEEN: Dream job? Poet in the poetry world doing poetry things, I guess working at a university and winning the TS Eliot for my debut collection, sigh. I didn't have enough coin to stay in academia doing something so damn arty, but once upon a moonlit dream I had notions of going to the States to do an MFA. Anyway. Still sort of trying with the odds against me. Two publications last month and one upcoming though, yay! 

I'm a bit late to this so if you've been tagged already please ignore or no pressure if you don't want to do this at all!!!: @heartstringsduet @cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut @irispurpurea @actuallysara @goodways @danieljradcliffe @lutavero @howlingsaturn @ladytessa74 (I meant to add you but just saw I didn't?!!!)

#Tagged #Oversharing on the Internet

[mybeingthere]

Ceramics by Harris Deller.  

Harris Deller was born in Brooklyn. He received a B.A. in Art from California State University at Northridge and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Harris Deller about his work: “The ceramic tradition of pottery making is the foundation of my practice. I am interested in dualities, contradictions and internal human dramas joined with the layering of time and history.  My visual vocabulary consists of lines, geometric forms, basic color and repetition of simplified shapes, along with a strong affinity for precision, proportion and balance.    

Pottery is familiar to us and we have a long association with these objects and understand some of the dualities particular to them. The relationship of the inside to the outside, the top to the bottom, form and function, these are accessible to most viewers.  Pottery can exist as a sculptural form; works made for display, and at the same time hold on to the notion of function. Pottery can also be made for function and daily use employing tactile qualities and beauty, offering joy and pleasure to both the eye and the hand.”

https-//www.cerberagallery.com/.../harris-deller-ceramic.../

[lauriemarch]

performers are "dedicated" and "disciplined" until you're a stage manager and you're trying to get them anywhere on time

#bonus points without talking or asking a question you've already answered #working my first mfa dance show! #stage manager #theatre major #mfa in drama #dark academia #light academia #studyblr #booklr #studying #light acadamia aesthetic #study notes #book blog

[lboogie1906]

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (March 1, 1983) is a Kenyan-Mexican actress. The daughter of Kenyan politician Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, she was born in Mexico City, where her father was teaching, and was raised in Kenya from the age of one. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Daytime Emmy Award, four NAACP Image Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award. She attended college in the US, earning a BFA in Film and Theatre from Hampshire College. She began her career in Hollywood as a production assistant. In 2008, she made her acting debut with the short film East River and returned to Kenya to star in the television series Shuga. She wrote, produced, and directed the documentary In My Genes. She then pursued an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama. She had her first feature film role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave, for which she received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is the first Mexican actress to win an Academy Award. She made her Broadway debut as a teenage orphan in the play Eclipsed, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She went on to perform a motion capture role as Maz Kanata in the Star Wars sequel trilogy and a lead voice role as Raksha in The Jungle Book. Her career progressed with her role as Nakia in Black Panther and her starring role in the US. She supports historic preservation. She is vocal about preventing sexual harassment and working for women's and animal rights. She was named the most beautiful woman by People. She wrote a children's book named Sulwe, which became a number-one New York Times Best-Seller. She narrated the docu-series Serengeti, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Narrator. She was named one of Africa's "50 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenhistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CpP0R4WLXja/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenhistorymonth

[directedbywomen]

Celebrating Julie Dash! "Thirty-one years ago, filmmaker Julie Dash broke through racial and gender boundaries with her Sundance award-winning film (Best Cinematography) Daughters of the Dust. She became the first African American woman to have a wide theatrical release of her feature film. The Library of Congress placed Daughters of the Dust and her UCLA MFA senior thesis Illusions in the National Film Registry. These two films join a select group of American films preserved and protected as national treasures by the Librarian of Congress." Visit Dash's website for more information about her extensive and varied career.

Standing at the Scratch Line (2016)

"Standing at the Scratch Line is a short film about returning to sacred spaces of departure and arrival. Multi-media artist Julie Dash portrays the stories of a people seeking refuge and freedom in the African Methodist Episcopal Denomination."

Learn more about the project on The Great Migration website.

Give Me One Reason [music video] (1996)

Daughters of the Dust (1991) "Dash’s first feature — Daughters of the Dust (1991) — was the first film by an African American woman to receive a general theatrical release in the United States; the Library of Congress named it to the National Film Registry in 2004."

Learn more at UCLA Library Film & Television Archive.

"...Julie Dash’s vast yet intimate drama, set in 1902, about the preparations of an extended family on one of the Sea Islands, off the coast of Georgia, to migrate to the American mainland. It’s a movie that runs less than two hours and feels like three or four—not in sitting time but in substance, in historical scope and depth of emotion, in the number of characters it brings to life and the novelistic subtlety of the connections between them, in the profusion of its ideas and the cinematic imagination with which they’re realized, in the sensuous beauty of its images and sounds and the indelibly exalted gestures that it impresses on one’s memory.... The movie’s images have a luminous fullness, a decentered dynamism, and a dance-like flow that separate them from mere illustration and raise them to a visual music that matches the movie’s bold dramatic construction."

Read more in Richard Brody's The Return of Julie Dash’s Historic “Daughters of the Dust” in The New Yorker.

Learn more about the film in Dash's book Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film, "which includes Dash's complete screenplay, describes the story of her extraordinary sixteen-year struggle to complete the project."

Illusions (1982)

"In this thirty-four-minute featurette, from 1982, Julie Dash ingeniously revives classic-Hollywood themes and styles in order to subject them to a sharp historical critique.... Dash blends intimate portraiture with echoing reflections and multiple exposures, capturing Hollywood’s harrowing game of multiple hidden identities." Read more in Richard Brody's review in The New Yorker.

Four Women (1975)

"Pioneering, provocative and visionary, the L.A. Rebellion films form a crucial body of work in post-war cinema… Julie Dash's dazzling film is both a critical response to female stereotypes and one of the most brilliantly released films about dance."- George Clark, Tate Modern Learn more at Third World Newsreel.

Explore Dash's filmography on MUBI:

#Julie Dash #directed by women #Youtube

[clansunsharp]

hi im pin, welcome to my blog where i post about my flight rising dragons. i played a lot in the site's early years, then took a 6 year hiatus and have recently returned. im still discovering a lot of new things that have changed since i left so im practically a newbie. its an experience.

im an insufferable MFA student so i tend to get wordy and am really invested in my clan's lore. here's a little about them:

Clan Sunsharp - a light flight scholastic and military institution with a reputation for excellence, complete with all the petty drama and bureaucracy that characterizes such institutions.

Wake's Bane - my beloved clan of bad guys. a disorganized band of overdramatic edgelords who run around terrorizing clans displaced in the Emperor's Wake. everyone sucks and nobody is redeemable.

im in the process of redoing all the bios for these guys since my writing has drastically improved in the last 6 years so just. go easy on me lol

same goes for my art. please for the love of god dont look at my art tag; its all from like, 2015-2017. if you'd like to see my more recent art i draw my dnd characters and occasionally post fanart over at @pinnithin (the main blog).

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Be Still. . . is a tea set—the pear half and quarters are actually elaborate stands for the teapot, creamer, and sugar bowl. Like many of Kathleen Royster Lamb's pieces, leaves and thorns play a prominent role in the interpretation of the design. To Lamb, the leaves signify a protective layer while the thorns symbolize pain. Lamb considers the pear shape to be a feminine form where the leaves protect the fruit's fleshy, delicate core from the thorns of the creamer and sugar bowl. By exposing the core of the fruit, she wants to create a feeling of vulnerability and drama. Lamb intentionally emphasized the length of each pear's stem in an attempt to represent the balance, or lack thereof, that we find within ourselves. (Susan Peterson, Contemporary Ceramics, 2000)

#bornonthisday Kathleen Royster Lamb enrolled in Portland State University in 1978, but withdrew after her third year because she "wanted an adventure." She relocated to Alaska, where she worked as a commercial fisherman during the summer and traveled all over the world in the winter, visiting New Zealand, Australia, India, and Nepal. Around her thirtieth birthday, Lamb decided to return to college, and this time entered the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, where she received a BFA and MFA in ceramics. She initially majored in graphic design, but soon found herself drawn to clay due to its tactile nature and the technical challenges the material presents. She began teaching ceramics at the college level after graduation, which she continues to do to this day. Lamb has exhibited her works internationally, and her pieces are found in several collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Arizona State Art Museum. ("Do you know: Kathleen Royster, assistant professor of art," This Week @Metro (June 15, 2005)

Kathleen Royster Lamb, Be Still. . ., 1998, stoneware, part A (half pear): 4 1⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 x 6 1⁄4 in. (10.7 x 31.1 x 15.8 cm) part B (quarter pear): 4 x 9 3⁄4 x 6 1⁄8 in. (10.1 x 24.8 x 15.5 cm) part C (quarter pear): 3 1⁄4 x 12 x 5 3⁄4 in. (8.3 x 30.5 x 14.5 cm) part D (sugar bowl): 3 3⁄4 x 6 3⁄4 x 4 in. (9.6 x 17.2 x 10.1 cm) part E (creamer): 3 3⁄4 x 6 7⁄8 x 4 5⁄8 in. (9.5 x 17.6 x 11.9 cm) part F (teapot): 7 1⁄2 x 7 3⁄8 x 4 5⁄8 in. (19.2 x 18.8 x 11.8 cm) part G (lid): 2 1⁄8 x 2 1⁄8 x 1 3⁄8 in. (5.3 x 5.3 x 3.5 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Howard Kottler Endowment for Ceramic Art, 2000.3A-G

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#art by women #art #Kathleen Royster Lamb #tea #art of tea #tea set

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“Money drowned pregnant” ITS GIVING LITFIC BY MFA MCMASTERSON BABY

its giving hum tv waale drama

#promo: killer kaun hai? 🤔😱😱👻😢 #killer: saas played by supriya pathak #lettos says #asks