the world only spins forward.

i live in brooklyn.
i make films.

In this context the huge amounts of publicity given to the work of women like Bigelow and Hardwicke seem like tokenism at best. “People tend to see them as evidence of creeping progress, that things get a little better each year, and so then we don’t need to think of it as a problem,” said Lauzen. “But in reality the numbers are stable. Surprisingly so. And the number of women directors is actually going down.

via The Guardian - ”Hollywood Woman Unite to Break Through the Celluloid Ceiling” (via joshruben)

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The Gargoyle has the best view: and other nice things about watchers

December 21, 2011

I have this friend, or acquaintance… friendly acquaintance, we’ll go with that. 

On occasion I send this person casual “checking in” emails - lighthearted but wanting them to know I’m around, and that I see.   

I worry often about them, because they are easily shrouded in humor, work product, good looks and affability; I worry because I think that people are so caught up in this person’s well-honed camouflage that they won’t notice fingers bleeding from hanging on so hard, that people will be so busy being charmed that they won’t notice if this person slips over the edge;

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