I spoke with director Martha Shane (Picture Character) by phone a few weeks after DOC NYC to discuss her latest documentary, Narrowsburg (which I also reviewed). This was my second conversation with her in the past year (I previously interviewed […]

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The director emphasizes the illusory nature of Tinseltown fantasies through her talking-head interviews, projecting duplicate images of her subjects in multiple places in the frame as they speak, a device both appropriate to the theme and visually striking.

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I met with co-director Martha Shane (After Tiller) on Monday, April 29, 2019, along with producer Jennifer 8. Lee and one of their subjects, Rayouf Alhumedhi, at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival to discuss their collaboration on the new documentary Picture […]

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Until recently, there was no symbol for a hijab, nor one for a drop of blood or a drink of mate, though for some reason mermaids, mermen and genies are available, as are water drops (and a single water drop, too) and a glass of milk. Who decides what enters the visual lexicon of our day? Why, the Unicode Consortium, that’s who!

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