Junot Díaz and the Problem of the Male Self-Pardon
“I’ve never talked to her,” Bill Clinton told NBC’s Today when he was asked whether he’d apologized to Monica Lewinsky, “but I did say publicly on more than one occasion that I was sorry.“ #whatsrevenge
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Many critical reactions to #MeToo have been similar to the reactions to my film—that people sharing #MeToo stories were oblivious to the complexities and the grey area of implication, that many of the stories shared weren’t that bad, or that the whole business of sharing stories was really about drawing attention to one’s self… essentially, that it was irresponsible for women to be talking about this stuff publicly.
Again, I saw a lack of trust in women to examine our lives, to make our own conclusions about what constitutes misconduct and abuse, and take action as we feel necessary. It was the same mistrust that I experienced when I began examining the desire for revenge in my film.
"Kat Hunt: #MeToo, revenge, and trusting ourselves to tell the truth
Watch full film on NoBudge.com til 2/15/2018 !
With a rare stylishness and killer selection of tunes, this short feature cuts deep into the wounds of modern relationships, transcending its own plot to deal in complex human reactions. - NoBudge
"If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
Malcom X
The Torment of Saint Anthony, 1487, Michelangelo Buonarroti
Size: 35x47 cm
Medium: oil, panel, tempera
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Brooklyn in Exile at Treefort, Idaho's Very Own SXSW-in-Waiting
Kat Hunt, the director of What’s Revenge, also recently fled Brooklyn (Bedford-Stuyvesant to be exact) for greener, calmer upstate environs. Her marvelous, delightfully strange featurette, which enjoyed a weeklong run at Williamsburg’s Spectacle Theater last year but has otherwise seen far less festival play than it deserves, was one of the highlights of Filmfort. A hybrid of confessional documentary and speculative fiction that mixes seemingly discordant formal strategies with graceful aplomb, the film played in front of an appreciate hometown audience (Hunt has Boise roots). But like much of the work on display at Filmfort, including recent Slamdancers Dave Builds a Maze and How the Sky Will Melt, it deserves bigger audiences that a converted conference suite in a Boise office building.
ugh, women!
WHAT’S REVENGE is playing Boise’s Filmfort / Treefort Fest !
Screening is 1p on Saturday, 3/25 at The Owyhee
You can get in with your Treefort or Filmfort pass. Otherwise tickets at $10 at the door, first come first serve~
Kat will be doing a Q&A following the film :)
"Art is here to prove, and to help one bare, the fact that all safety is an illusion."
James Baldwin
(Source: quotemadness.com, via planned-chaos)
Last Dance Before Trumpism: Eastern Oregon, Park City (Virtual) and Rotterdam | Filmmaker Magazine
“Clark’s program was lively and varied as always; he had Sophia Takal’s Always Shine in the house (if not the director herself), and a world premiere screening of Kat Hunt’s delightfully strange, doc/fiction hybrid, What’s Revenge, an hour-long plunge into the alluring director/star’s psyche. It’s the type of movie, made with an economy of means, in which you sense the filmmaker willing to mix wildly discordant aesthetic strategies (long, winding, seemingly improvised scenes blending with remarkably stylish, almost overdesigned passages) to make a work that is personal in the most original of ways. It’s no Buffalo ’66, but it has a similar renegade spirit formally, and marks Hunt as an interesting cinematic memoirist, or a fraudulent one, which in this context is a compliment.”