Surveillance as the Shooting Script of Documentary: On Chris Kennedy’s Watching the Detectives

by Shelby Shaw

OCT 2018 | Film

In Watching the Detectives, Canadian filmmaker and programmer Chris Kennedy recounts the aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing as it played out on public forum websites such as reddit and 4chan. At just thirty-six minutes in length, the silent 16mm film is a carefully assembled narrative of the pedestrian online attempts to collectively determine who was responsible, while news outlets were simultaneously updating the information they received from the FBI and continuously revising their theories regarding the identity of the culprit. Combining archival footage of the Marathon, and the bombing, with anonymously posted comments and photographs from the Internet, Kennedy’s film is a haunting rumination on digital anonymity in a world of public surveillance, online socializing, and above all, the assumed authority of asserting one’s suspicions and beliefs.

The Making and Unburying of Salem Poet Malcolm Miller: KEVIN CAREY, MARK HILLRINGHOUSE, ROD KESSLER, KEVIN CAREY JR., and R.G. EVANS with Elisabeth Weiss

OCT 2017 | Books

Unburying Malcolm Miller” is a documentary film collaboration between five very talented men who give Malcolm Miller’s poetry new life.

INTERVIEW BY A POET

by John Giorno and Andy Warhol

I LOVE JOHN GIORNO | SLEEP

“Andy and I made the “Andy Warhol Interviewed by a Poet” in June and July 1963, as a parody, a fake interview, about nothing and for nothing.