"More and more, it seems the American dramatic imagination has curtailed itself, choosing to avoid the horrific events through which we are living today" complains critic (and Dramatic Competition Jury member) B.Ruby Rich in her roundup of this year's Sundance film festival for The Guardian. "Sooner or later," Rich writes hopefully, "the times we live in will force their way on to the screen -- no matter how much angst and sex and personal dysfunction try to fill the space and keep them out."

Those (like B. Ruby Rich) looking for more socially conscious filmmaking might do well to check out the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight, February 10-28, which will feature a sneak peek at Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein's Troop 1500 (Spiro with cast, pictured right), which premieres at SXSW on March 12, as well as Coco Fusco's a.k.a. Mrs. George Gilbert (co-written with Rick Moody), Maryam Keshavarz's The Colour of Love, and Deep Dish TV's Shocking & Awful: A Grass-roots Response to War: The Real Face of Occupation, among numerous other titles.

# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 2/03/2005 02:11:00 PM

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