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Composer and Sound Designer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe tells Caro C about his preferred sound modules and working methodologies, plus shares details some of the film and TV projects that he has recently been collaborating on.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:35 - Finding A Musical Voice04:38 - Choosing Modular Synthesis10:18 - Avant Garde Artistry17:14 - Current Modular Setup23:19 - Other Favourite Modules 28:11 - Composing For TV And Film34:03 - Combining Hardware And Software#morphagene #spectraphon #dxg #optomix #proworkout #arbharRobert Aiki Aubrey Lowe BiogRobert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is an artist, curator and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. Robert is known for his work with modular synthesis combined with voice. Along with analogue video synthesis works, he has had exhibitions of his work at John Michael Kohler Art Center, Museum of Art and Design, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and the Broad.Over the last several years Robert has collaborated on projects or provided sound in a featured artist capacity for such films as “End of Summer”, “Sicario”, “Arrival”, “Last and First Men” with Johann Johannsson and “It Comes at Night” with Brian McOmber. In recent years Robert has scored “Candyman” for Nia DaCosta, “The Color of Care” and “Power” for Yance Ford, “Master” for Mariama Diallo, “Grasshopper Republic” for Daniel McCabe, docuseries “Telemarketers”, “UNION” for Brett Story and Stephen Maing, “The Man In My Basement” for Nadia Latif, “Life After" for Reid Davenport and “Seeds” for Brittany Shyne. Through collaboration Robert has worked with Tarek Atoui, Ben Russell, Ben Rivers, Rose Lazar, Nicolas Becker, Rashaad Newsome, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hildur Guđnadóttir, Sabrina Ratté, Philippe Parreno, Evan Calder Williams, Ariel Kalma, Susie Ibarra and YoshimiO, as well as many others.https://robertaikiaubreylowe.bandcamp.com/Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album 'Electric Mountain' is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This 'sonic enchantress' (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.URL: http://carocsound.com/Twitter: @carocsoundInst: @carocsoundFB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts
Amazon workers are on strike! It's no shock that employees are pushing back against the invasive, abusive, and grueling practices of one of the world's largest corporations. What is surprising, though, is that they managed to form a union at all. Stephen Maing and Brett Story's astonishing new documentary Union tells the inspiring story of how workers fought against all odds to claim victory over the corporate giant. This week, Adam talks with Stephen and Brett about the uphill battles these workers faced against Amazon—and the challenges they now face trying to find a distributor in Hollywood brave enough to release the film.SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/adamconoverSEE ADAM ON TOUR: https://www.adamconover.net/tourdates/SUBSCRIBE to and RATE Factually! on:» Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/factually-with-adam-conover/id1463460577» Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0fK8WJw4ffMc2NWydBlDyJAbout Headgum: Headgum is an LA & NY-based podcast network creating premium podcasts with the funniest, most engaging voices in comedy to achieve one goal: Making our audience and ourselves laugh. Listen to our shows at https://www.headgum.com.» SUBSCRIBE to Headgum: https://www.youtube.com/c/HeadGum?sub_confirmation=1» FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/headgum» FOLLOW us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/headgum/» FOLLOW us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headgum» Advertise on Factually! via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Open-AI is reportedly working on an AI-powered internet browser, according to the tech site called The Information. The reporting suggests OpenAI still hasn’t decided whether to go forward with this, which would be a major challenge to Alphabet's Google. Also on the show, Econ Extra Credit. This month we’re watching “Union,” a new documentary film that follows the first successful campaign to unionize workers at Amazon in the U.S. We sit down with Stephen Maing, one of the film’s directors, to learn more.
Open-AI is reportedly working on an AI-powered internet browser, according to the tech site called The Information. The reporting suggests OpenAI still hasn’t decided whether to go forward with this, which would be a major challenge to Alphabet's Google. Also on the show, “Econ Extra Credit.” This month we’re watching “Union,” a new documentary film that follows the first successful campaign to unionize workers at Amazon in the U.S. We sit down with Stephen Maing, one of the film’s directors, to learn more.
Filmmaker Brett Story and labour organizer Chris Smalls join us this week on Below the Radar. Brett is the co-director of UNION, a documentary film that follows the efforts of the Amazon Labor Union and their campaign to unionize the first Amazon warehouse in American history. The movement was spearheaded by Chris, a former Amazon warehouse supervisor who was fired in 2020 after organizing a protest against Amazon's lack of COVID-19 safety protocols. Brett and Chris chat about the process of making the film, the state of organizing in the contemporary moment, and the international reception of UNION. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/255-brett-story-chris-smalls.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/255-brett-story-chris-smalls.html Resources: Brett Story: https://brettstory.ca/ Chris Smalls: https://www.instagram.com/chris.smalls_/?hl=en Amazon Labor Union: https://www.amazonlaborunion.org/ UNION: https://www.unionthefilm.com/ DOXA Documentary Film Festival: https://www.doxafestival.ca/ Bio: Bretty Story: Brett Story is an award-winning filmmaker and writer based in Toronto. Her films have screened in theatres and festivals internationally, including at CPH-DOX, SXSW, True/False, and Sheffield Doc/Fest. She is the director of the award-winning films The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) and The Hottest August (2019), and author of the book Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America. The Hottest August was a New York Times Critics' Pick and was called one of the ten best documentary films of 2019 by over a dozen publications, including Variety, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Brett has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Sundance Institute, and was named one of Variety's 10 Documentary Filmmakers to Watch. In 2020 she was nominated for a Cinema Eye Award for Best Director. She holds a PhD in geography and is currently an assistant professor of Media Praxis at the University of Toronto. Her most recent film, UNION, co-directed with Stephen Maing, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024. Chris Smalls: Christian Smalls is the founder of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent, democratic, worker-led labor union at Amazon in Staten Island. He is also the founder of The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a nationwide collective of essential workers and allies fighting for better working conditions, better wages, and a better world. Smalls was formerly an Amazon warehouse supervisor, helping open three major warehouses in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut during his five years with the company, but he was fired in 2020 after organizing a protest against the company's unsafe pandemic conditions. Smalls has been profiled by media outlets worldwide, including The New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, CBC Radio, Salon, and Jacobin. He lives in Hackensack, New Jersey. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “ Union Power — with Brett Story and Chris Smalls.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 5, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/255-brett-story-chris-smalls.html.
Kate Wolf speaks with filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing about their new documentary Union, which is out in theaters now. It follows, in real time, the forming of the first ever Amazon union in the country, the ALU, at the JKF8 plant in Staten Island. Later in the conversation Chris Smalls, the president of ALU, joins as well. Chris began to petition for the Amazon union after he was fired by the company in March of 2020 for walking off the job in protest of the lack of Covid safety precautions at the plant. The film picks up about a year later as Chris and his fellow organizers are gathering signatures to ratify their petition to formalize the union process. It captures the ensuing months of grueling work by Chris and other ALU members as they try to convince the 8,000 plus workers at the JFK8 plant that a union is in their best interest. The film is an object lesson in the many tactics needed for political organizing, and the inevitable discord that comes with it, both from the outside—in this case, one of the biggest companies in the world—and from within as well. Also, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, returns to recommend Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn.
Kate Wolf speaks with filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing about their new documentary Union, which is out in theaters now. It follows, in real time, the forming of the first ever Amazon union in the country, the ALU, at the JKF8 plant in Staten Island. Later in the conversation Chris Smalls, the president of ALU, joins as well. Chris began to petition for the Amazon union after he was fired by the company in March of 2020 for walking off the job in protest of the lack of Covid safety precautions at the plant. The film picks up about a year later as Chris and his fellow organizers are gathering signatures to ratify their petition to formalize the union process. It captures the ensuing months of grueling work by Chris and other ALU members as they try to convince the 8,000 plus workers at the JFK8 plant that a union is in their best interest. The film is an object lesson in the many tactics needed for political organizing, and the inevitable discord that comes with it, both from the outside—in this case, one of the biggest companies in the world—and from within as well. Also, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is A Promise: the Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, returns to recommend Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn.
Two films in this year's New York Film Festival lineup grapple beautifully with the challenge of narrating stories of collective movements without giving in to the allure of the heroic individual protagonist. John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's Revivals selection Northern Lights (1978) stages the founding of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota—formed in the mid-1910s by farmers from that state—parallel to a tale of young love, using a dramatized approach to explore the tensions between personal desires and collective commitments. Made more than four decades later, Brett Story and Stephen Maing's documentary Union (2024)—featured in the festival's Spotlight section—takes on another chapter in the history of the American labor struggle: the 2022 unionization drive of the Amazon plant on Staten Island, and the challenges facing an autonomous movement that requires leadership but is rooted in democracy. Last Saturday, the two directorial pairs—Hanson and Nilsson, and Story and Maing—joined Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute for a live panel discussion on their stylistically different but thematically connected works. In a thought-provoking conversation, they examined the practical, formal, and political considerations of making films about people power.
Ep. 273: Amy Taubin on NYFF: Nickel Boys, My Undesirable Friends, New Godard and Albert Serra, No Other Land, Rumours Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. As the New York Film Festival presents a kind of best-of-the-year selection for its 62nd edition, I sat down with the one and only Amy Taubin to discuss a few highlights. Titles discussed include: Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross's extraordinary debut fiction feature which we had just seen on opening night; Jean-Luc Godard's Scénarios and Exposé du Film annonce du film “Scénario”; It's Not Me (Leos Carax); My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev), a world premiere; No Other Land (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor); Union (Brett Story, Stephen Maing); Dahomey (Mati Diop); All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia); Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson); and Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra). Please support the production of this podcast by signing up at: rapold.substack.com Photo by Steve Snodgrass
Send us a Text Message.For this week's episode, we're taking you to one of the best film festivals our city of Toronto offers: the Hot Docs Film Festival.We share some of our hits from the festival, including Disco's Revenge (directed by Omar Majeed and Peter Mishara), Union (directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing), Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (directed by Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson) and Look Into My Eyes (directed by Lana Wilson). We also discuss a bit about the culture of Toronto, how Robin Williams was ahead of his time (RIP to a legend), and Ama briefly recaps her trip to NYC which included getting to see Jinx Monsoon on Broadway in The Little Shop of Horrors. So, sit back, press play, and savor the rich tapestry of pop culture—one heartfelt tribute, one pulsating beat, and one provocative discussion at a time.Support the Show.
In the second of our live, in-person interviews at Sundance 2024, award-winning directors Brett Story (“The Prison Landscape in Twelve Landscapes”) and Stephen Maing (“Crime + Punishment”), along with Amazon Labor Union (ALU) president Chris Smalls, the film's main protagonist, join Ken to discuss the world premiere of “Union”. In this riveting, verité documentary, we meet Chris and other current and former employees inside a tent (ALU's makeshift HQ), as they form an independent, grassroots labor movement to unionize Amazon's largest fulfillment center in New York City. What begins as a longshot fight against one of the world's largest companies, eventually becomes the most watched labor election in decades. Brett, Stephen and Chris discuss the immense challenges faced by the union, its highly effective efforts to galvanize Amazon workers, and the creative spark set off by this union of two acclaimed filmmakers. Thanks to Amos Cochran of Edit/Score for hosting our 2024 Sundance interviews. Edit/Score is a new music library with an innovative approach to finding music for your film. Listen to the library and learn more at editscoremusic.com The Presenting Sponsor of "Top Docs" is Netflix. Follow: @unionthefilm on Instagram and twitter @topdocspod on Instagram and twitter
We are back for a new season, and this time with a series of guest hosts – a new one each episode – to accompany Bart and Chris on their journey through documentary cinema. Our guest for this episode is filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi, whose Facing the DragonI mentioned on our April 17 bonus episode. We review Danish director Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld, a wild romp of an investigative movie, just recently released in theaters, and interview director Stephen Maing about last year’s Crime + Punishment. Curious about the connection? Listen on … Finally, at the end, in “Doc Talk,” since Sedika has just taken up a teaching position at Savannah College of Art and Design, we discuss her planned strategies to train the next generation of documentarians. And all that in just over 50 minutes. Enjoy! Group Review Documentary: COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD (Mads Brügger, 2019) Now in theaters and on demand Film Featured in Interview Portion: CRIME + PUNISHMENT (Stephen Maing, 2018) Now on Hulu Other Documentaries, Sites and Topics Mentioned: BORAT Danes for Bush (Mads Brügger, 2004) Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967) Facing the Dragon (Sedika Mojadidi, 2018) Field of Vision High Tech, Low Life (Stephen Maing, 2012) The Intercept The Surrender (Stephen Maing, 2016) The Yes Men Links to reviews/interview by Christopher Llewellyn Reed: Film Festival Todayreview of Cold Case Hammarskjöld Hammer to Nailreview of Crime + Punishment Hammer to Nailinterview with Stephen Maing of Crime + Punishment Timestamps: 00:37 – Intro 06:02 – Group Review of COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD 24:47 – Bart and Chris interview Stephen Maing of CRIME + PUNISHMENT 43:34 – Doc Talk Website/Email: www.fogoftruth.com disinfo@fogoftruth.com Credits: Artwork by Hilary Campbell Intro music by Jeremiah Moore Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst) Editing and Shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed
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Filmmakers Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 11/9), Julie Cohen (RBG), Annie Sundberg (Reversing Roe) and Stephen Maing (Crime + Punishment) sat down with Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers for a panel called “Getting Political” at the DOC NYC PRO conference on November 9, 2018. The date marked the two year anniversary of Donald Trump’s election and came […] The post 90: Michael Moore, Julie Cohen, Annie Sundberg & Stephen Maing on “Getting Political” appeared first on Pure Nonfiction.
~Support Ephemera on Patreon~ https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast ~Get in touch~ Ephemerathepodcast@gmail.com ~Additional links~ I took the name “splinternet” from Scott Malcolmson’s book of the same name. It’s very good and written for a lay audience; he tells the compelling human story of the history of the Internet and the attempts of sovereign states to excercise control over it. It’s published by the excellent O/R Books: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/splinternet-by-scott-malcomson/ HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE is a remarkable documentary by Stephen Maing following 2 Chinese citizen journalists. You can rent it on iTunes, but if you speak Chinese, the star of the movie - a young blogger named Zola - has uploaded it to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0TOHB-Paug While I’m recommending movies, visual artist Lawrence Lek’s “Sinofuturism (1839 - 2046 AD)”, a “science fiction that already exists”, touches on the Chinese experience of the Internet. He uploaded it to Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/179509486 More on the JSON attack: https://www.securityweek.com/china-uses-watering-hole-attacks-jsonp-hijacking-identify-users
A new documentary, Crime & Punishment, shares the story of 12 active cops trying to hold the NYPD accountable and create reform from within. To talk about the film and the questions it poses, MacKenzie Fegan is joined by director Stephen Maing, retired NYPD detective Derick Waller, and private investigator Manuel Gomez.
This week on the What's In The Queue Podcast, we're chatting about the 2018 Hulu Original documentary Crime + Punishment from director Stephen Maing. This doozy of a doc covers the no longer legal "quota system" which requires police officers to have a certain number of arrests, detentions, and stops per month in order to be "successful." Join us as we chat about this illegal policing technique. Hey, did you know our 50th(!) episode is coming up? We're doing a special look back at this past year and we want to hear from you. Send us your favs from the podcast so far. You can send emails and audio clips to whatsinthequeue@gmail.com or slide into our DMs on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram and let us know! Have you seen a documentary that you think we might like? Let us know all about it! Send your recommendations to whatsinthequeue@gmail.com
Want to see the video version of this podcast? Please visit Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0h_eZe2db0 To watch our collection of documentary filmmaker interviews, please visit Youtube here: https://bit.ly/2HWQsEw To watch our collection of filmmaking/directing videos, please visit Youtube here: https://bit.ly/2TMZC7T In this Film Courage video interview, filmmaker Stephen Maing shares his multi year process making the Hulu documentary Crime + Punishment, a look at 12 New York City Police Officers who challenged the quota system in writing summons/arresting minorities as revenue generation for the City. Steve shares his thoughts on portraying those featured in the film, the questions a filmmakers should ask themselves in taking on a project and how he wanted to show all featured in the film with equal time so as not to pin the movie and claims on one individual. WATCH CRIME + PUNISHMENT https://www.hulu.com/watch/1323868 CONNECT WITH STEPHEN MAING https://www.crimeandpunishmentdoc.com https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537737 https://twitter.com/mainmaing https://www.facebook.com/CrimeandPunishmentDoc CONNECT WITH FILM COURAGE http://www.FilmCourage.com http://twitter.com/#!/FilmCourage https://www.facebook.com/filmcourage http://filmcourage.tumblr.com http://pinterest.com/filmcourage BUSINESS INQUIRIES http://bit.ly/22M0Va2 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FILM COURAGE YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://bit.ly/18DPN37 LISTEN TO THE FILM COURAGE PODCAST https://soundcloud.com/filmcourage-com PROMOTE YOUR MOVIE, WEBSERIES, OR PRODUCT ON FILM COURAGE http://bit.ly/1nnJkgm SUPPORT FILM COURAGE http://www.patreon.com/filmcourage BECOME A FILM COURAGE MEMBER https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8o1mdWAfefJkdBg632_tg/join CONNECT WITH FILM COURAGE http://www.FilmCourage.com http://twitter.com/#!/FilmCourage https://www.facebook.com/filmcourage http://filmcourage.tumblr.com http://pinterest.com/filmcourage BUSINESS INQUIRIES http://bit.ly/22M0Va2 SUBSCRIBE TO THE FILM COURAGE YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://bit.ly/18DPN37 LISTEN TO THE FILM COURAGE PODCAST https://soundcloud.com/filmcourage-com PROMOTE YOUR MOVIE, WEBSERIES, OR PRODUCT ON FILM COURAGE http://bit.ly/1nnJkgm SUPPORT FILM COURAGE http://www.patreon.com/filmcourage Please subscribe to our Youtube channel. You can show additional support via our Youtube sponsor tab by going here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8o1mdWAfefJkdBg632_tg/join or through Patreon here - http://www.patreon.com/filmcourage. Thank you for listening! We hope you've enjoyed this content.
Episode 127 of One Week Only! Our key film this week is the bold and bizarre French fantasy "The Wild Boys" (35:35) We also review the wild & unique anime "The Night is Short, Walk on Girl" by Masaaki Yuasa (3:45), the beautiful, thoughtful documentary "Makala" directed by Emmanuel Gras (13:50), and the gripping & timely documentary "Crime + Punishment" directed by Stephen Maing (25:45). Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com
Meet the NYPD12: a group of minority whistleblower officers who risk everything to expose racially discriminatory policing practices in the NYPD and smash the blue wall of silence. Using stunning cinematography and intimate, character-drive access, CRIME + PUNISHMENT captures the story of these brave individuals right from the beginning, as several officers meet up to talk about the New York Police Department's outlawed practices of quota-driven policing and officer retaliation -- and find themselves starting a class-action suit against the city. Using secret recordings between officers and commanders, firsthand accounts, and emotional testimony, the NYPD12 detail the explosive truth when no one else will listen. In the meantime, Manuel Gomez, an ex-cop turned private investigator, collects testimony from young minorities who have been affected by these policies and targeted by officers in the name of fighting crime. Told from the rarely heard perspective of active whistleblower officers and the young men and women of color they police, CRIME + PUNISHMENT is a once-in-a-generation film that considers the complexities of police work when faced with the unjust systemic and institutional practices fueling social justice movements across America. Director / Producer / Cinematographer / Editor Stephen Maing joins us for conversation on how he came to know the brave men and women who stepped forward, and why this is not just a New York City issue. For news and updates go to: crimeandpunishmentdoc.com