“Who cares?”  Every storyteller inevitably confronts this question, whether from our own inner voice or external sources.  In the documentary world, grant organizations, festival programmers, and other partners pose the “Who cares?” question as follows: Why is this film important, timely, urgent, or relevant? I thought I’d share part of my response to that […]

Despite Eddie Murphy’s classic critique of the homemade hamburger (“That don’t look like no McDonald’s!”), “homemade” often refers to something that is not only made at home, but also made by hand, with love, especially for you.  That spirit animates LOVE IS A SENSATION. I loved Ms. L.V.  She was devout and bawdy; funny and […]

Snap.  Snap.  Snap-ap.  Ms. L.V. Hull’s art “studio” was a 15x19 inch TV tray that likely cost $15 at the most. Snapping the legs of the tray into the supporting brackets served as an invocation of the muse each time she sat down to work; a rhythmic ritual performed by the body to court the [...]