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About Saskia

Kicking a** in the name of independent media.

‘Work No. 16 (2011): Stories’, Season 2

Part of the art collaborative Mr. and Mrs. Hahn, the ‘Stories’ project is an ongoing series of true short stories, told on camera by fascinating people around the world. We’re excited to say that Season 2 is now underway. If … Continue reading

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Aka Pygmy music

From Wikipedia: “The Pygmies are a broad group of people who live in Central Africa, especially in the Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. Music is an important part of Pygmy life, and casual performances take place during many … Continue reading

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Micah Hahn, on Typography

Made this. Love him. Here’s a link to his website.

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‘Work No. 16 (2011): Stories’, Season 1

Part of the art collaborative Mr. and Mrs. Hahn, the ‘Stories’ project is an ongoing series of true short stories, told on camera by fascinating people around the world. You can watch all of Season 1 here on the Vimeo … Continue reading

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I’m looking for films about L.A.

I’m looking for short films that present alternate (authentic) narratives about Los Angeles, preferably by L.A.-based filmmakers, for an upcoming program I am curating for Big City Forum. Please drop me a line at saskia [at] saskiawilsonbrown [dot] com with … Continue reading

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This week’s list: Filmmakers I’m drooling over

Seven Nine (!) filmmakers I am way excited about right now. Michael Medaglia: Because he is about to release his short thriller Kitty Kitty on VODO (look for it on June 10th) and because he has a script he’s shopping … Continue reading

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LA

And now for something even more awesome: ‘Los Angeles: A Love Poem‘, by Dylan King (featuring a poem by Sandra Beasley)

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Exercise for the new year

My friend Regina Gelfo sent this to me in the first few days of 2010 as an exercise to help me establish and put clarity into the year that had passed. She found it somewhere on the internet, not sure … Continue reading

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Hey Pachuco!

Zoot-suiters in Los Angeles, and the girls who loved them. Sources: a. http://pic40.picturetrail.com/VOL272/8157143/15269508/231094190.jpg b. http://www.flickr.com/photos/80643375@N00/356743212 c. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HCcB7IDJQ6Q/0.jpg

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‘Tree of Codes’ by Jonathan Safran Foer

Visual Editions, started in 2009 in London,  publishes books that are very aware of their materiality. As they put it “books should be as visually interesting as the stories they tell”. On Nov 15th they will publish their second book, … Continue reading

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