Queer is in the Eye of the Newcomer

February 20, 2011

Mapping Memories: Experiences of Refugee Youth is a joint initiative between Concordia University’s Montreal Life Stories project, Montréal community members, and the Canadian Council for Refugees. Queer is in the Eye of the Newcomer is a Korsakow film produced by Mapping Memories, which they describe as follows: On May 3rd 2009, four queer youth with [...]

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D|N|A Website just launched

February 2, 2011

The website for Database | Narrative | Archive (Montréal, May 13-15, 2011) has just been launched. It includes information on the event, confirmed participants, and related news.

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All the news that’s fit to SNUify

January 20, 2011

Florian, Dave, and I have been spending some quality time together here in Montréal, exchanging ideas and planning out the next few releases of Korsakow. We’re looking forward to releasing version 5.0.5 in the next 2-3 weeks; as usual with our point releases, 5.0.5 includes some neat new features and some necessary fixes. We’re always [...]

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Steps to Recovery (University of Texas at Austin)

January 5, 2011

Update: This Korsakow film has been taken offline. Steps to Recovery: 7 stories of addiction and hope at UT Austin’s Center for Students in Recovery is a new k-film directed by Oliver Callund and produced by Audrey White. Callund made the film while taking a course with faculty member Karen Kocher. It was published online [...]

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Traverse by Bharath Haridas

December 22, 2010

Here’s a new k-film called Traverse, by Bharath Haridas, a graduating student from the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. Bharath writes: “This k-film is about the fragmented mind of an urban Indian. It’s a mix of story and concepts that is occurring at various micro contexts in India.” For me, [...]

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Gaze

December 14, 2010

When we relaunched Korsakow in July 2009, I was very impatient to see some results. It was almost as if I was expecting mediamakers to download it and produce amazing k-films in a matter of hours (or at least call us to tell us how much they loved the software, before they’d even spent time [...]

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It was ten years ago today

December 6, 2010

Exactly a decade ago Florian defended his masters project, which means it’s also Korsakow’s tenth birthday. As Florian likes to say, “Hurrah!”

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27 New Korsakow Films!

November 6, 2010

Artist, educator, and Korsakow user Adrian Miles (RMIT) has just posted the results of a semester-long engagement with Korsakow in his class Integrated Media One, “a compulsory second year subject within RMIT’s Bachelor of Communication (Media) program”. The results are quite stunning: twenty-seven (count ‘em!) Korsakow films accessible through a single webpage. I started on [...]

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Planet Galata – launched!

September 3, 2010

Florian’s gorgeous new k-film Planet Galata, created for the European television network ARTE, has just been launched. Congratulations Florian and everyone on his team in Istanbul. (Link here is to French version. German available on site with English to follow very soon.) Now available in German, French and English!

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Two musical k-films

August 10, 2010

Here’s news about two recent k-films produced by grad-students, one in Toronto, the other in London, both of them dealing with particular music scenes, but in very distinct ways. The first one, titled Not Just Boy’s Fun: The Rad Ladies Project (An interactive documentary), is an intriguing work by media maker Cynthia Shulak. It was [...]

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