Bibliographic record
Abstract
Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, 108 Water Street, 5A, Watertown, MA 02472; 617-926-0491Produced by Brigid Maher, Alexander “Zander” Dixon, Emmy Vadnais, Erik Vadnais, and Zahra AhmedDirected by Brigid Maher2022, Streaming, 56 mins This biopic shares the story of a champion of avant-garde cinema and her life’s work, facilitating greater appreciation for experimental filmmaking. An artist and painter, Dixon’s penchant for film began when she started to shoot her own home movies. In part thanks to her familial connections, she began working at the Carnegie Museum of Art, but was disappointed to see film - “the 20th century art form” - underrepresented alongside the other visual arts. She suggested to the museum director the addition of a film department whereupon she was appointed curator of the new program, one of the first museum film screening series in the country. From 1970 onward, Dixon’s influence and stewardship in the world of independent filmmaking flourished. As host of the museum’s screenings, she was often mediator between viewers interested in embracing non-linear storytelling and the genre’s unorthodox content. Her encouragement of patrons to enjoy avant-garde film, combined with her own curiosity for new works, made experimental film more accessible to an increasing range of audiences. Dixon also supported the filmmaking community far beyond the selection of films and backing of individual careers, from workshops to opportunities to share expensive equipment to initiating networking tools. As her expertise in the field grew so did her reputation on a national level, and her advice and perspective on new works was sought across the country. Experimental Curator: The Sally Dixon Story is recommended. It is a forthright telling of an underappreciated figure at the crux of an artistic movement who worked tirelessly with open-mindedness and sincerity to benefit avant-garde voices then and now. Art History, Film Studies, and Women’s Studies curricula especially will find inspiration in Dixon’s dedication and advocacy. Awards:Winner, Best Feature Documentary Film, Doc.Boston Documentary Film Festival (2022); Award Winner, Toronto International Women Film Festival; Award Winner, Stockholm City Film Festival; Semifinalist, Berlin International Art Film Festival; Honorable Mention, UFVA Conference (2022)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.012 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".