Film scholar Professor Charles Barr recalls studying
film at the Slade School of Fine Art under the tutelage of the great British
film director Thorold Dickinson.
In college, I had a
professor who was, ironically, one of the great
film scholars in the world, but a mediocre lecturer and guide to the group as a whole.
Presenters are Mark Dean Johnson,
professor of art at San Francisco State University and director of the Martin Wong Foundation, who also moderates; Julia Bryan - Wilson,
professor of modern and contemporary art and director of the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, whose Fray: Art and Textile Politics includes a chapter about the Cockettes and Wong's design work for them; Sergio Bessa, director of curatorial and education programs at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and
scholar of concrete poetry; Marci Kwon, assistant
professor in the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University; and artist and filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, who introduces his 1998
film portrait of Wong, whom he knew personally.
Even noted
film and media
scholar Patricia Aufderheide,
professor of
Film and Media Arts in the School of Communication at American University and director of the Center for Social Media, noticed, tweeting: Dueling documentaries; looks like the big - biz folks aren't as good filmmakers... http://wapo.st/qwM4N7 @hotcoffeemovie