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Dennis O’Rourke’s ‘Cannibal Tours,’ 25 year later

I Love Your Work

I found I Love Your Work to be extremely interesting, and I thoroughly enjoyed the disjunctive sequences, although it was at times highly annoying I found myself appreciating its uniqueness you don't offend watch a film like this. The clips would cut right in the middle of someone speaking to something totally different. I found it interesting to listen to their average day to day activities in relation to their work. What was most compelling about the film was the subjects take on the nature of their profession in relation to how they felt about sexuality in general. I think what made it so compelling was the crazy number of cuts in the film. Constantly cutting from one thing to another. At some points, I felt as though the filmmaker had lost the essence of the film. It was hard to feel for the subjects in the film with the amount of cuts taking place. Just as your about to get something real, some emotion or feeling from the characters, the filmmaker makes a cut. It was hard as a viewer to invoke any kind of sympathy or feelings for the subjects in the film with the constant cutting and editing take place.

The film offers a glimpse into the lives of these women, and it is just that a glimpse. What was quite intriguing about the film was that most of the women found it to be quite liberating and enjoyed what they did. This revelation was completely the opposite of what I would have initially thought. You normally hear about women with no other options being almost forced, and coerced into doing porn. In this film, this didn't seem like the case at all. The disjunctive nature of the film while interesting and different could also at times be very frustrating as a viewer. I am interested to see what others have to say but I felt particularly with Dylan, that she had lots of interesting things to say that were often cut in mid sentence or thought leaving the viewer hanging. Harris shows us so much in this documentary but I think one could argue that among all of this footage and small highly cut sequences there lies little to no substance. All in all, I'm not convinced that I love Your Work, is not an accurate depiction of life in the porn industry for women. While it does highlight an important aspect to consider, I think in doing so it belittles the real injustices and social issues at play within the porn industry.

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A Literary Documentary of the Life of Karen Carpenter, Available for free on googlebooks. Sad, yet incredibly interesting read. The foreword by Dionne Warwick is gripping. Strongly recommend taking a look at it. Below is a link to the book.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=VeNVvoZdJ94C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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A Current Affair

- The Karen Carpenter Cover-Up part 2/2

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A Current Affair -

The Karen Carpenter Cover-Up part 1/2

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Karen Carpenter

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News Reports on the Death of

Karen Carpenter (February 1983)

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Karen Carpenter Drum Solo - 1976 First Television Special

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PressPausePlay - Jonathan Caouette

Fantastic Interview! Gives incredible insight into the making of the film Tarnation. Reflection on the film, the process of making it, and being a film maker.

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Interesting Conversation with Johnathan Caouette

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Caouette on the process of making Tarnation Part2

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Caouette on the process of making Tarnation Part1

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DP/30 With Oppenheimer on the Act of Killing. I recommend everyone to check this out, pretty amazing stuff. A good watch before our screening on Monday.

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Executive Producers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris of "The Act of Killing" sit down with Vice to discuss the making of the film.

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“What are you doing making a film about genocide if it’s not really disturbing?”

Great Interview with Oppenheimer on the making of The Act of Killing. Click on the green portion of the screen above to follow the link to the article.

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Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing

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Studs Terkel Comments on Working

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