Comments on: Trifecta: The Great Debacle http://agnesvarnum.com/2006/07/28/trifecta-the-great-debacle/ watching, ranting and connecting with documentary film Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:43:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: agnes http://agnesvarnum.com/2006/07/28/trifecta-the-great-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-510 agnes Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:10:37 +0000 http://agnesvarnum.com/2006/07/28/trifecta-the-great-debacle/#comment-510 Here is a link to Indiepix Katrina collection - it is for educational institutions only but since I know some professors occasion this blog, I'm posting. <a href="http://www.indiepix.net/static.pl?page=katrina" rel="nofollow">Katrina Experience</a> Here is a link to Indiepix Katrina collection – it is for educational institutions only but since I know some professors occasion this blog, I’m posting.

Katrina Experience

]]> By: agnes http://agnesvarnum.com/2006/07/28/trifecta-the-great-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-416 agnes Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:31:17 +0000 http://agnesvarnum.com/2006/07/28/trifecta-the-great-debacle/#comment-416 Thanks Bob. Your comment reminds me about something I want to steer clear of with this feature - series of films that simply cut a wound deeper. "Trifecta" resembles a festival sidebar, but my experience with sidebars is that there isn't necessarily attention paid to different approaches to subjects. For instance, films on music and art are typical sidebars. I've been thinking about an immigration trifecta but of the several films I've seen lately, they take a similar position on the subject and fail to provide the multi-dimensional view I'm looking for. I didn't get to Full Frame, so I haven't seen the Katrina films screened there, though I have seen a lot of projects on the subject. I haven't yet seen projects that go beyond the heart-wrench of loss and destruction. There is a lot of fodder for the documentary mill with that subject. I hope that your viewing gave you insight into that tragedy. I welcome other's trifectas - if anyone has a small selection of films to recommend. I'm happy to post and try to watch them myself! Thanks Bob. Your comment reminds me about something I want to steer clear of with this feature – series of films that simply cut a wound deeper. “Trifecta” resembles a festival sidebar, but my experience with sidebars is that there isn’t necessarily attention paid to different approaches to subjects. For instance, films on music and art are typical sidebars.

I’ve been thinking about an immigration trifecta but of the several films I’ve seen lately, they take a similar position on the subject and fail to provide the multi-dimensional view I’m looking for.

I didn’t get to Full Frame, so I haven’t seen the Katrina films screened there, though I have seen a lot of projects on the subject. I haven’t yet seen projects that go beyond the heart-wrench of loss and destruction. There is a lot of fodder for the documentary mill with that subject. I hope that your viewing gave you insight into that tragedy.

I welcome other’s trifectas – if anyone has a small selection of films to recommend. I’m happy to post and try to watch them myself!

]]> By: Bob http://agnesvarnum.com/2006/07/28/trifecta-the-great-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Bob Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:29:53 +0000 http://agnesvarnum.com/2006/07/28/trifecta-the-great-debacle/#comment-415 This is a little slow in posting because my thought processes were a little slow, mulling more than racing through, as it were. Anyway, I *really like* the idea of the "TriFecta". Watch any three indie docs on the same general topic and you'll end up better informed than, say, Faux News (as some bloggers refer to it). We're organizing "The Katrina Experience", which is a collection of 8 docs in a 4 DVD box set for libraries only. These films come out of the Full Frame Festival, and were personally selected for the festival by Nancy Buirski, the founder and artistic director of the festival. I want to make those points because this is not a grab bag. And these are not amateur filmmakers on a "post your own" kind of outing. So my thought is that there really is some closer to "the real thing" that comes out of viewing a collection like this. I watched three of these films in a row the other night, and I was blow away by the rawness of the wounds people had suffered. I thought that I had understood something different about what Katrina means or meant. I think you have a good point about the "trifecta"! This is a little slow in posting because my thought processes were a little slow, mulling more than racing through, as it were. Anyway, I *really like* the idea of the “TriFecta”. Watch any three indie docs on the same general topic and you’ll end up better informed than, say, Faux News (as some bloggers refer to it).

We’re organizing “The Katrina Experience”, which is a collection of 8 docs in a 4 DVD box set for libraries only. These films come out of the Full Frame Festival, and were personally selected for the festival by Nancy Buirski, the founder and artistic director of the festival.

I want to make those points because this is not a grab bag. And these are not amateur filmmakers on a “post your own” kind of outing.

So my thought is that there really is some closer to “the real thing” that comes out of viewing a collection like this. I watched three of these films in a row the other night, and I was blow away by the rawness of the wounds people had suffered. I thought that I had understood something different about what Katrina means or meant.

I think you have a good point about the “trifecta”!

]]> By: Chuck http://agnesvarnum.com/2006/07/28/trifecta-the-great-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Chuck Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:54:59 +0000 http://agnesvarnum.com/2006/07/28/trifecta-the-great-debacle/#comment-393 You could add <i>The End of Suburbia</i> to this list, although I think that doc has pretty much lost whatever steam it had. I *think* the electric car doc is supposed to make it to Fayetteville. The previews look great. Hadn't even heard about <i>Crude Awakening</i>. You could add The End of Suburbia to this list, although I think that doc has pretty much lost whatever steam it had. I *think* the electric car doc is supposed to make it to Fayetteville. The previews look great. Hadn’t even heard about Crude Awakening.

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