This Week: Filmmaker and Geographer Brett Story discusses her new film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes.  The documentary is screening at Anthology Film Archives November 4th to 1oth. 00:00 - BTR Today 00:44 - The Prison in Twelve Landscapes 02:54 - Geography 08:29 - 12 Landscapes 13:41 - St. Louis County 18:44 - Calls From Home 22:47 - Prison As Stimulus 26:18 - The Bus 31:00 - Reactions From Inmates 37:01 - Finish

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The Prison In Twelve Landscapes

This Week: Filmmakers Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya discuss their new documentary about Indian traveling cinemas. The film is called Cinema Travelers, and it's screening this week at the New York Film Festival.       00:00 - BTR Today 00:42 - Cinema Travelers 02:39 - Traveling Talkies 04:52 - Amit's Photographs 07:58 - Bapu's Cinema 10:33 - Mohammed's New Projector 12:48 - Moving Images 16:05 - Social Dramas, Action Movies and Porn 17:50 - Personal Cinema Histories 20:54 - Future of Traveling Cinema 22:22 - Prakesh 25:41 - End of an Era 31:05 - Finish

Cinema Travelers

This week: Filmmaker Bill Morrison discusses his new documentary Dawson City: Frozen in Time. The film is screening on October 4th at 9pm at Lincoln Center as part of the New York Film Festival. 00:00 - BTR Today 00:44 - Dawson City: Frozen Time 03:04 - Dawson Film Find 05:17 - Exploding Film 07:40 - Then and Now 10:33 - Rhyming News 14:19 - Black Sox 18:10 - Narrative Cues 21:29 - Archiving Cat Videos 24:54 - Film Without Dialogue 29:30 - Finish

Dawson City: Frozen in Time

This Week: Photographer Lynn Saville discusses her new book Dark City: Urban America at Night. 00:00 - BTR Today 00:54 - Lynn Saville 02:07 - Revealing at Night 04:52 - Archeology of Overnight 09:48 - Place vs Space 13:38 - Photos at Night 16:55 - Because the Night 20:14 - New Projects 25:29 - Finish

Lynn Saville

This Week: In honor of the start of football season, I wanted to feature an interview with Michael Oriard. Michael is a writer, cultural historian of football, and former offensive lineman for the Kansas City Chiefs. He has written several books including King Football, Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature, and Brand NFL: Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport. Earlier this year he published The Head in Football: The History of Concussions and the Future of the Sport. I first got in touch with Michael in 2012 after reading his piece in Slate about the death of Steve Sabol. Sabol was the creative force behind NFL Films and is responsible for a lot of the technical, visual, and narrative innovations that shape the way we watch football today.   00:00 - BTR Today 00:41 - Michael Oriard 02:34 - Watching as a Player 03:19 - Visual language of Football 06:23 - Storytelling 10:15 - Highlights as Art 12:01 - Marketing 14:30 - NFL Films in context 20:16 - The Glory of Violence 25:48 - The Future 28:23 - Finish

Michael Oriard

This Week: Author, curator and photography historian Gail Buckland talks about her new book and exhibition Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present. The show is on view now at the Brooklyn Museum through January 8th, 2017.     00:00 - BTR Today 00:55 - Who Shot Sports 01:51 - Expanding the Canon 04:55 - Early Sports Photos 07:39 - Sports and Fashion 11:25 - Women in Sports Photography 14:40 - Sports and Culture 19:09 - Not a Sports Fan 22:19 - Rock and Roll Sports 24:42 - Technology 28:01 - Finish

Who Shot Sports

This week: Writer Kate Wagner discusses her research and fascination with architecture's greatest monstrosity: The McMansion. Her website, McMansion Hell, provides comprehensive and hilarious analysis of what makes these garish homes so hideous and why they've come to look the way they do. Some of her annotated diagrams can be seen below as well as on mcmansionhell.com.             00:00 - BTR Today 00:46 - McMansion Hell 02:33 - McMansion Defined 04:57 - Designing a McMansion 07:48 - The Millennium House 10:08 - History of the McMansion 15:18 - Interiors 17:18 - Critique 19:12 - So What? 20:43 - It's Personal 22:48 - Responses 24:02 - Tony Soprano's House 30:12 - Finish

McMansion Hell

 “The Wolves” from Ghost Stepping This Week: Photographer Molly Lamb discusses her work, growing up in the South, and how she uses photography to talk about ideas of home, loss and memory. Molly's latest exhibition Home and Away opens at Rick Wester Fine Art on September 15th.  “Mumble, Utter, Hum” from Ghost Stepping  "Untitled 9" from Take Care of Your Sister  "Untitled 9” from Let It Go  "Untitled 17" from Take Care of Your Sister 00:00 - BTR Today 02:28 - Storytelling 04:03 - Family Origins 07:27 - Light as Language 10:37 - Watch the Light 12:18 - Reverberations 15:15 - Working With Objects 18:24 - Pictures of Pictures 21:36 - Changing Landscape 23:13 - Feel of the South 25:40 - Home 28:45 - Books and Exhibitions 32:58 - Finish

Molly Lamb

  This Week: Prolific documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman talks about his new film In Jackson Heights. The film is  a portrait of the people, businesses,community institutions, and street life that make up Jackson Heights, Queens, one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse neighborhoods in New York City. 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Frederick Wiseman 03:10 - Jackson Heights 04:09 - The Neighborhood 05:42 - Shooting and Sound 10:35 - Editing Process 15:30 - Working With Subjects 18:09 - Humor 22:13 - Becoming A Filmmaker 26:32 - More Novelistic Than Journalistic 30:00 - Finish

In Jackson Heights

This Week: Andrew Beccone discusses The Reanimation Library, a collection of about twenty-five hundred overlooked, forgotten, and discarded books he has collected from thrift stores over the last fourteen years. The Library is currently in residence at the Queens Museum and is available to the public by appointment. Just email Andrew to schedule a visit.   Image from Orange Roofs, Golden Arches: The Architecture of American Chain Restaurants, Reanimation Library collection   Image from Body Hot Spots, Reanimation Library collection     Image from The Space Shuttle Operators Manual, Reanimation Library collection Image from The Space Shuttle Operators Manual, Reanimation Library collection   00:00 - BTR Today 00:44 - Reanimation Library 02:20 - The Collector Gene 04:35 - The Dissonance 05:40 - Starting the Library 09:17 - Not a Freak Show 12:27 - Body Hot Spots 14:54 - Artists in the Library 18:59 - Future of Reanimation 23:21 - Finish

Reanimation Library

This week: Filmmaker Molly Bernstein talks about her new documentary, a portrait of artist Rosamond Purcell called An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell. The film is screening at Film Forum from August 10th to the 16. 00:00 - BTR Today 00:54 - The Art That Nature Makes 02:30 - The Dice 05:03 - Purcell's Studio 07:13 - Mastodon Toon 10:23 - A Way to See the World 16:04 - Errol Morris 17:55 - An Environmental Film 20:17 - Old Stuff in the Digital Age 25:05 - Finish

An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell

This week: Documentary filmmaker Pieter Van Huystee talks about his new film Hieronymus Bosch, Touched By The Devil. The film follows a team of art historians as they try to bring Bosch's 16th-century masterpieces back to the painter's hometown in The Netherlands for an exhibition on the 500th anniversary of his death. 00:00 - BTR Today 03:17 - Why Bosch 05:43 - Painting Forensics 10:30 - Prado v Bosch 16:02 - Interpretations 19:22 - Bosch - mania 23:50 - How to Make a Game Show 27:55 - Finish

Hieronymus Bosch, Touched By The Devil

Serpentine Pano watercolor on archival pigment print, 47" x 72", 2016 This Week: Artist Theresa Ganz talks about making her photo-based collages from images of rocks, caves, and the ceilings of ornate European palaces and estates. We also discuss how growing up in the city made her curious about nature, the connection between her work and outer space, and the ways that  artists' depictions of the land reflect issues of gender and power. Cave of the heart Pigment prints, collage, 67' x 46" each, 2014 Palazzo Madama 2, 2015, inkjet print, 8" x 10 00:00 - BTR Today 00:43 - Theresa Ganz 02:24 - Nature as Culture 05:21 - 19 vs. 21 09:14 - Slab 14:08 - Baroque Studies 16:20 - Stitches 18:50 - Space 21:21 - Storm Diptych 25:56 - Landscape and Gender 30:00 - Finish

Theresa Ganz

This Week: Laura Israel is the director of Don't Blink: Robert Frank, a new documentary about the influential artist, photographer and filmmaker. The film follows Frank's life and art from his seminal book The Americans through his  explorations in experimental film to the present day. Don't Blink: Robert Frank is screening at Film Forum through July 26th. 00:00 - BTR Today 00:42 - Don't Blink 02:32 - The Pitch 05:22 - Interviewing Robert Frank 07:07 - Process 09:55 - Music in the Film 13:59 - The Americans 16:24 - Frank Watching Frank 19:02 - Sharing Frank's Work 23:02 - Finish

Don&#039;t Blink: Robert Frank

Blue M82, Gelatin silver print, 11x14" This Week: Artist Amelia Konow talks about working in the darkroom, gravitational waves, and printing on 50 year-old photo paper. In her work, Amelia draws on the both the scientific and spiritual mysteries of outer space as a way to connect the massive scale of the universe to the concrete realities of our every day lives. Her work is on view at SF Camerawork from July 14th to August 20th as part of the group exhibition S P A C E. V838, Gelatin silver print, 8x10" Wrapped Up In The Cloud, ~3300 4x6" photographic prints Local Plants 68, Polaroid, 4.25x3.25", 2013 Local  Plants 70, Polaroid, 4.25x3.25" 00:00 - BTR Today 00:55 - Amelia Konow 02:19 - Space is the Place 06:08 - Cosmic Synthesis 07:42 - Local Plants 11:30 - NASA Database 14:57 - Wrapped Up in the Cloud 17:17 - The Epically Tempting Archive 21:24 - Light As Information 23:41 - Bridging the Gap 24:23 - Looking at the Universe 27:24 - Finish

Amelia Konow

Thomas grew up in Northern California where he fell in love with music and photography while going to punk shows and shooting skate photos. He photography in college, which may or may not qualify him to host an art podcast. When he's not working on Art Uncovered, Thomas works as photographer, retoucher, and audio editor and also plays guitar in the band Sleepies. He lives in Queens, New York, for now.

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