Thuy Van Vu’s empty classrooms feel eerily familiar right now, almost photographic. “The spaces she portrays are vast and full of potential, and also of a great, yawning absence. Where are the children? Their teachers? The chairs are piled awkwardly on top of the desks, everything pushed together, as if those who left were in a rush. There’s a sense that these desks and chairs have been lingering and might never be used again.” – Catapult
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How To Make A Four-Part Rom-Com During Hollywood’s Lockdown
It wasn’t easy to film Love in the Time of Corona. But it was doable, with a lot of care – and a lot of house-cleaning for the actors whose homes hosted the shoots. Some of the details: “Filming over two-plus weeks in July, Johnson worked with a crew of seven who were tested before spending three days at each location. The showrunner monitored scenes from a van parked outside the actors’ homes, and gave direction via walkie-talkie.” – Vulture
Netflix Screws Up The Advertising For A Movie About The Problems With Sexualizing Young Girls
So here we have a movie, Cuties, that “has been praised for questioning how society and social media pressure young children into acting in sexually explicit ways.” Best way to advertise it, Netflix, probably isn’t with ” a picture of four young girls posed provocatively, some twerking while wearing hot pants.” (The streaming service learned that quickly, and changed things.) – The New York Times
It’s Definitely Time To Go Back To Absolutely Safe Movie Theatres, Say Multiplex Owners
Reassuring: “The theaters are pushing hard the argument that moviegoing is safe more broadly, or at least as safe as going to a restaurant, flying on an airplane or worshiping in a church.” – Los Angeles Times
Museum Director Who Wouldn’t Certify Belarus Election Found Dead
Kanstantsin Shyshmakou, the 29-year-old director of a military history museum in Vawkavysk, refused to sign anything certifying the re-election of Lukashenko – and was found dead in a river after disappearing. Authorities claim there’s nothing criminal about his death. – KHPG (Ukraine)
The Artistic Legacy Of LA’s Chicano Moratorium Against The Vietnam War
Police tear-gassed the gathering before the march began, killing L.A. Times columnist and KMEX news director Ruben Salazar (two others also died during the tear-gassing and shooting). “The Moratorium shifted creative paths for those who were present and those who heard about it on the news or from friends. It fueled an urgency to make visible the Chicano experience, one that had largely been left out of the history books — an urgency that remains resonant.” – Los Angeles Times
Social Media Companies Must Flatten The Spread Of Dangerous Disinformation
Can they? Yes. Will they? Hm. – Slate
A Six-Part Play, Delivered By Postcard
Shutdown theatre cool idea number 458: “A postcard slips through the letterbox and lands lightly. While rural touring can’t take place, Nottingham-based company New Perspectives have created Love from Cleethorpes, a six-part postcard drama delivered to audiences’ homes.” – The Guardian (UK)
Ai WeiWei Directed, From Europe, A Film About Wuhan’s Drastic Shutdown
His team sprang into action and got censor-free footage that seems impossible. “The hardest footage to shoot was inside the I.C.U., Ai said, but he could not divulge how it was filmed. He said much of it was done with hand-held video cameras about the size of a smartphone that are able to stabilize images. It helped, he said, that many people were wearing masks: That made them feel less nervous about getting in trouble for speaking on camera.” – The New York Times
Minnesota Finally Recognizes A Native Author With Its State Literary Award
And what an author – Marcie Rendon, an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, is an “award-winning poet, playwright, author of children’s books, short stories and the popular Cash Blackbear mystery series.” – St. Paul Pioneer Press