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“It Really Does Take a Village”: Ted Schaefer on Giving Birth to a Butterfly
“It Really Does Take a Village”: Ted Schaefer on Giving Birth to a Butterfly

Annie Parisse in Giving Birth to a Butterfly. Our projected identities—and the constant performance inherent in presenting ourselves—fuel the surrealist philosophy of Ted Schaefer’s Giving Birth to a Butterfly. The filmmaker’s directorial debut, from a script he co-wrote with author…

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“We Expected for Pretty Much No One To See It”: Justin Zuckerman on Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater
“We Expected for Pretty Much No One To See It”: Justin Zuckerman on Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater

Isadora Leiva in Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater. I first saw Justin Zuckerman’s Yelling Fire in an Empty Theater—the writer-director’s ultra-low-budget, MiniDV-shot feature debut—back in December at Williamsburg’s Spectacle Theater. I’d been invited on a whim by the film’s…

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