Culture Making Articles items tagged thingsCulture Making Articles:Writing on Christianity and culture from Andy Crouch2025-01-03T22:54:05ZCopyright (c) 2025, Andy CrouchExpressionEnginetag:culture-makers.com,2025:01:02Everything is Everything, by Koki Tanakatag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.18192025-01-02T22:53:00Z2025-01-03T22:54:05ZAndy Crouchandy@culture-making.com Nate: ?There's an odd decisive joy to this short film of odd decisive actions. I love the sense of deadpan discovery as the filmmaker finds abbreviated new uses and gestures for everyday plastic things, conjuring up a dance of objects for an audience of food. Really.? "Everything is Everything: Alternate Version for Single Channel," by Koki Tanaka, 2007 :: via Coudal Partners
]]>Project Gatsbytag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.15542025-01-02T22:53:00Z2025-01-03T22:54:05ZAndy Crouchandy@culture-making.com Nate: ?I've just written another essay for Comment Magazine's "Comforts and Delights" web feature, the strange but true story-cum-art project: Grace Between the Cushions: A Love Letter to My College Couch. It's a more straightforward telling than the short film above—about which a good friend of mine had this to say: "It's cute and bleak. I love it."? Project Gatsby, a film by Nate Barksdale, based on photographs by Henry Wei, with deep creative debts to (and potential for spirited fair-use debates with) Errol Morris, Philip Glass, Louis Armstrong, Alan Lomax, Stephen Rosen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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