The Writers Series

00:41:00 | 1 DVD

Collection: New Releases, On Art and Artists, Single Artist Compilations

Tags: AIDS/HIV, City, Documentary, Feminism, Interview, Language, LGBT, Literature, Poetry, Portrait

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The Writers Series

The Writers Series is a series of video portraits of writers whose work I love.

-- Cecilia Dougherty

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1998 | 11:25
Cecilia Dougherty, Laurie
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Laurie was inspired by Laurie Weeks’ uncanny ability to simultaneously embody her characters and write them from a clear distance. The text in question is just a few paragraphs from a draft of the novel Zipper Mouth, more than...

 

Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles

Tags: city, documentary, feminism, interview, lgbt, literature

1998 | 11:05
Cecilia Dougherty, Leslie
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In the early 1990s, I went to a reading by Leslie Scalapino at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. I could not understand the writing, which can seem difficult and unwieldy to a reader unaccustomed to language poetry, and understood less...

 

Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles

Tags: documentary, interview, language, poetry

2000 | 10:16
Cecilia Dougherty, Eileen
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This video is an unabashed fan letter to poet Eileen Myles. As in Laurie, my desire was to romanticize the poet, but not through her writing so much as through her reputation as the natural born child of the New York School and the Beats...

 

Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles

Tags: city, documentary, interview, poetry

Cecilia Dougherty, Kevin & Cedar
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I arranged a visit to poet/novelist Kevin Killian’s South of Market apartment in San Francisco to shoot a portrait of him, and when I arrived he had a guest, poet Cedar Sigo. They had corresponded earlier, but were meeting for the first time, and...

 

Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles

Tags: aids/hiv, city, documentary, interview, poetry

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