Weng Diedie is a Chinese filmmaker who has spent several years visiting the matrilineal Mosuo tribe in South-Western China, and filmed a fascinating and beautiful tale of how their traditional music is threatened by tourism and modernization. She has already shown it to full houses at many different venues in the US, and now she […]

My friend Peder noted that this phenomenon was preceded by a film by Woody Allen, which took this to the extremes. I will copy and paste from the Wikipedia article:
What’s Up, Tiger Lily? is the first film directed by Woody Allen. He also wrote and appeared in this 1966 comedy, which utilized clips from […]

I have been interested in languages and translation, and ways of making content from different languages available for a long time. I was very excited to come across DotSub, an online YouTube-esque platform for film clips where you can upload videos, and have viewers contribute subtitles in different languages Wiki-style (and without having to download […]

This entire summer, NRK2, one of the state TV channels in Norway, have been broadcasting Bollywood movies every Friday night. To me, this was a real treat. Although I don’t enjoy every singly Bollywood movie (how could I, when they produce over 900 per year?), I seem to me more receptive to them than many […]