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Jonathan Kiefer

  • Mill Valley Film Festival logo Managing Editor, Publications, Mill Valley Film Festival
  • Contributing Writer, MUBI
  • Screenwriter and Associate Producer, Around the Sun
  • Communications Associate, Roxie Theater
  • Adjunct Professor of Film, California College of the Arts
  • Filmmaker and Writer, Freelance
As seen in: Around the Sun, Nature, KQED-TV (San Francisco,CA), Notebook, Sunset, San Francisco Weekly, Film Comment Magazine, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, New Haven Independent, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Screen Slate
I wrote the movie @aroundsunfilm and sometimes write about other movies and work for @roxietheater and teach at @cacollegeofarts.
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Being Human: The Films of Roy Andersson

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By Jonathan Kiefer
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Under the opening credits our fresh-faced hero arrives, puffed up in a leather jacket and piloting his moped along the open road of destiny—only to be overtaken by an unhurried cyclist. He endures with relative aplomb. He is easy to root for. Soon he’ll discover the sublime, unguarded intimacy of first love—and that it’s a fleeting interlude in the cruel world of disappointed adults.
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The Durability Of Dorothea Lange: Photography As Activism, And…

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By Jonathan Kiefer
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What first draws the eye, even from across the room, is a close-up: the dark hood, the sinewy face, the upward gaze of worry or hope. She is equally plausible as grim reaper or nun, but as the title informs us, pointedly generalizing both person and place, she is ​“Migratory Worker, Rural California.” That image (above) is among many now on display in an exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California.
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Keane

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By Jonathan Kiefer
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From the moment we meet him, he’s desperate. “I bought some tickets from you. Last September,” he’s saying. “On the 12th. Clifton. I was with my daughter. She was abducted downstairs on the lower level.” He hands over a ragged half-page of the Times, the headline—“Girl, 6, Disappears from Port Authority”—beside a photo we can’t quite make out. There’s no telling how long ago last September 12th was for this man, but long enough that his cause seems already lost. “She was six at the time,” he tries.
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