DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (5/6)
In January 2015, the Brooklyn Cottage hosted an event to talk about race.
Inspiration
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (4/6)
I thought back to the “instructions” Malidoma Patrice Some had given me…
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (3/6)
In April 2012, we picked Dirt as the theme for the Brooklyn Cottage’s second month…
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (2/6)
Yazmany and I decided that the Brooklyn Cottage would have monthly themes…
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (1/6)
That the The Brooklyn Cottage exists is itself a mini-marvel of the 21st century. This…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “On Successful Interviews” (6/6)
I have finally figured out what drives me to make films: I want to connect! Connect with my subjects and connect with my audience. I like intimate, hand-made, personal films.
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “On Film Festivals and Dealing with Rejection” (5/6)
One of the conundrums about making the films that I do is that I am making the films that I want to make—I’m not making them…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “Elizabeth King” (4/6)
This is an artist whose absolutely uncanny work I also grew up with in my family house, but I had never met her. When I was working on “Curious Worlds,” David Beck…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck” (3/6)
The biggest change for me in approaching this film and subject was that I knew I could not film it myself—the limits of my skills as…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “The Cardboard Bernini” (2/6)
I always marvel at the way this film grew totally organically out of the sudden death of my father and the way that one of his artists confronted his death. And at the same time…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “The Collector” (1/6)
Olympia Stone grew up in a house where the artworks […]
DISCOVERIES: Julie Flanders, “The Book of Rounds” (6/6)
Musical rounds create hypnotic effects that are good for the brain. The lyrical phrases in the rounds create a mantra-effect or positive fugue of messages. I wrote these 21 Rounds…
DISCOVERIES: Julie Flanders, “On Writing Lyrics” (4/6)
When I talk about writing, I do so to inspire other writers to create their own work. The one thing I wish I could offer to others would be to remember the thrill of writing, the…
DISCOVERIES: Julie Flanders, “Surprise of Angels” (3/6)
This poem was written from a photo by William DiCecca (whose FB name is Bill DiCamera), which inspired me with its quiet mystic beauty. I seem to remember it as…
DISCOVERIES: Julie Flanders, “Joyride” (The Poem) (2/6)
Proof positive that time flies, I had to wear reading glasses to read Joyride in public. I then had to overcome my own vanity about this in order to post it. This was my great…
DISCOVERIES: Julie Flanders, “Joyride (The Book)” (1/6)
Julie Flanders is a master lyrical shape-shifter. Over the years, her award-winning songwriting skills (honed since her teens) have morphed into related manifestations…