• Three-Minute Window By Mary Anderson Casavant
• Culture Hacker: Scarcity and Abundance in the Digital World By Lance Weiler
• Alternate Routes: New DIY Distribution By Randy Astle
• Editor’s Letter By Scott Macaulay
• Justin Lin’s Family Network By Scott Macaulay
• On Film School and Columbia’s 25th By Charles Lyons
• Can Microbudget Filmmakers Graduate to the Big Time? By Anthony Kaufman
• Cannes 2012 pt. 1 By Howard Feinstein

• Flash Crash

  In his 1977 novel Players, Don DeLillo told the story of a crumbling marriage amidst terrorism on the New York Stock exchange. In the 1973 Great Jones Street, he portrayed a wealthy rock star escaping the solar of his own fame by walking off his tour and hiding out in a downtown Manhattan apartment. And in Mao II (1991), he sent a reclusive, blocked novelist away from the world of cultural production into the zeitgeist of Middle East political violence. The emotional affect of a hypermediated society, the ways in which personal relations are shaped by the white noise of […]

  By Scott Macaulay
• Of Time & The City

  Artistry, despair and rage — the New York City of the 1980s and ’90s was defined by its fusion of these elements as artists and activists became frontline soldiers in the fight against the health crisis of AIDS. “Silence = Death” was the slogan of activist group ACT UP, an admonishment to all those who’d deny the severity of the epidemic by not taking a position. And as ACT UP members took direct action against fearful politicians, a generation of artists incorporated the movement’s anger and social critique into their own passionate work. These New York years form the backdrop […]

  By Filmmaker Staff
• War of Words

  
  War of Words By Heather Chaplin.

  By Heather Chaplin

Also: Cannes 2012 pt. 2 Load & Play Super 8 The Shooting Parties Mood Reels and Lookbooks: In Today’s Pitches, the Image Comes First Parting Shot – Ryan O’Nan