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The Outcast as a Mirror
Full text linkAGNES VARDA\u27S VAGABONDE: THE OUTCAST AS A MIRROR In 1985 French filmmaker Agnès Varda released what is considered by many to be her seminal work, Vagabonde(1) (Sans toit ni loi). The film represents over thirty years of experimentation with narrative structure and character development. Varda, who has always been fascinated with the audience\u27s participation in the production of meaning, has created a film in which the reactions of secondary characters build a portrait of an enigmatic woman. The director invites the audience to participate in uncovering of the "mystery" surrounding the life of a dead woman. On the surface, Vagabonde is a deceptively simple story. The film opens with the image of a frozen female corpse and a narrator (Varda) tells the audience that what follows are interviews with the people who knew her in the last weeks of her life. Through interviews and flashbacks the viewer learns..
The Future of Two Festivals
Full text linkBERLIN 1992 Flying into Berlin is now so very ordinary. No need to worry about wandering out of the narrow corridor over East Germany leading into the divided city; no fear now of being shot down by a watchful MIG; now the Frankfurt-Berlin train can stop where it likes and motorists can leave the autobahn on the way in. The fear and atmosphere of menace have gone. Checkpoint Charlie has gone; Bernard Samson has come out for the last time. No one will get riddled with bullets trying to cross the Wall because the Wall has disappeared. Was it ever there? Hard to believe as the West Berlin double-deckers pass the Brandenburg Gate and drive straight through to Alexanderplatz. A history of forty years has disappeared, to become a tick in time a hundred years hence. Surprisingly many former West Berliners are not too happy about this sudden..
Mac Mapping in the Library
No full textFor about a year or so I have been dabbling with computer mapping software on the Macintosh. My purpose was not to invent a sophisticated retrieval system such as CartoNet(at least not yet!), or to produce the perfect road map but to determine whether the computer could be used for its graphic capabilities to make Map Library operations easier, more accommodating, and user friendly. And my conclusion is an exciting ... yes, it can! The purpose of this paper is to share some of the things I have learned about computer mapping on the Macintosh, and how we can use these techniques in the everyday operation of a map collection