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All in One: Roy Andersson's Well-Framed Humor

It’s rare to find a comic filmmaker whose visual style is an important part of his or her process. A few of the masters used framing, camerawork, and editing to showcase their humor, most notably Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati. But even some of the undisputed masters of movie comedy, from Billy Wilder to Woody Allen, have simply concentrated on situation and characterization, and put the camera wherever was most appropriate to accentuate the dialogue or physical shtick.

Spotlight: Good Huemans

Pry open the lid of any budding street-corner philosopher and they will tell you that there is a vast difference between the concepts of knowledge and understanding. Certain information is able to be passed along by way of language that, once consumed and processed becomes knowledge. Understanding, on the other hand, is more rare and sacred—something ultimately personal.

Memorial Flags

Small American flags were placed, as has been local tradition since 2004, to memorialize each of the 2,977 citizens killed in the three terrorist plane crashes of 9/11/01 in Manhattan, Shanksville, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. The practice of placement of flags was spearheaded by Mark Multerer and Kathy Multerer, as they and a few of their friends lost relatives in World Trade Center on 9/11. “This is the most volunteers that we’ve ever had,” says Mark, “we started at 11:00 a.m. and it takes us a couple of hours to place all of the flags.

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