At the inception of my senior project I proposed the question “Is direct cinema still valuable in an age of constant and easily accessible methods of documentation?” I intended on[…]
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Blog Post #2 – Piper Jassem
At the halfway point in my senior project, I found I have hit a bit of a wall. In an effort to create a film that is both intimate but[…]
Blog Post #1 – Piper Jassem
As of April 17th, I have engaged in almost 50 hours of senior project related work. Eight days of filming, six documentaries that have been watched, and some hundred pages[…]
Piper Jassem – Annotated Bibliography
Jazz on a Summer’s Day, Directed by Bert Stern, performances by Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry, Chico Hamilton, Dinah Washington, and Anita O’Day, New Yorker Films / Raven Films[…]
Making a music documentary
Name: Piper Project title: Making a music documentary. Project overview: The 2020 covid quarantine, pandemic times, and ample free hours plunged me into a rabbit hole of living vicariously through[…]