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THE JOURNAL
A DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER'S BLOG
NEW YORK CHARLOTTESVILLE VALENCIA
FEATURE ESSAY
The numbers do not fully absorb. As of this writing, 1,783 cultural heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed in Ukraine since February 24, 2022. Among them, 46 have been completely erased. The Ministry of Culture counts 346 artists and 132 media workers dead. PEN Ukraine had already reached 102 cultural figures killed by the end of 2024, and the count has not stopped. These are not collateral casualties. They are the point.
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Alice Goes West
Alice: At Home With Alice Parker has been nominated to the Oficial Selection at the upcoming Bare Bones Music & Documentary Festival....
News Release
Feb 23, 20221 min read
The Butt–Millet Memorial
Washington was built to be admire and visit as one would a permanent exhibit. It doesn’t have at first glance, the cluster of accumulated...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Feb 17, 20222 min read
Chesterwood Announces Film
Chesterwood is pleased to announce the development of “Daniel Chester French” a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Eduardo...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Feb 16, 20222 min read
Beyond the Female Form
It is exceptional, to say the least, to find statues, busts or otherwise dedicated to female historical figures in America. In fact, as...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Feb 11, 20221 min read
HFP at The MET
During the last several months I had the opportunity to walk on the shoes of Daniel Chester French, the famed sculptor of the Lincoln...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Feb 9, 20224 min read
The Monumental Cycle of Life
The monument to King George III on Bowling Green downed by a group of New Yorkers following a reading of the newly adopted Declaration of In
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Feb 5, 20224 min read
Julian Bond (1940-2015)
He would spontaneously write as he and his wife Pam travel around the country, lecturing, visiting friends or just living the way they alway
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Feb 4, 20222 min read
Why Daniel C. French, Why Now?
I put the question, and others, before Thayer Tolles at the MET. Her reply renewed my enthusiasm for a documentary that now occupies all...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Feb 4, 20221 min read
The Bohemians
By the time The Minutemen was ready to be unveiled in the presence of Emerson and Ulysses Grant, then sitting president of the United...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Feb 3, 20223 min read
Sculptor Judith Shea
I’m finally back in Virginia, editing conversations and b-roll captured in the freezing cold over the last two weeks in New York. At...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jan 30, 20221 min read
Public Art at the Custom’s House
Notes for a documentary film on Daniel Chester French If you ever walk south on Broadway, all the way to the tip of Manhattan, you might...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Jan 9, 20222 min read
All Things Considered
A new documentary film about African - American musicians and their contribution to American music has been completed by a...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Dec 29, 20213 min read
Notes on Daniel Chester French
By Jeffrey Plank - Daniel Chester French will use selected major works to identify and elucidate the important and very difficult...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Dec 21, 20216 min read
A Doc for Daniel Chester French
The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia was organized in 1935. The founders were scholars and elected officials who shared a wish to m
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Dec 21, 20211 min read
Preserving Historic Places
Meet Brent Leggs; he probably has the best job in the world. He’s the current Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the African...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Dec 16, 20212 min read
Borges & Loewenstein
When I moved to Charlottesville in 2010, my only contact was Jared Loewenstein, funder and curator of The Jorge Luis Borges Collection...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Dec 12, 20211 min read
On Location in Richmond, Va
It was a good day in Richmond with David Dearinger. He did most of the talking about male and female figures in the sculptured work of...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Dec 9, 20212 min read
The Tennessee Chocolate Drops
Martin, Bogan and Armstrong and the revival of String Band Music in America Just a footnote on Black Fiddlers, a last minute tribute to...
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Dec 2, 20212 min read
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