Two new films—at once highly personal and intensely political—are on my mind today as I think about a definition of storytelling I heard this past week at a conference hosted by DC-based Docs in Progress: the opening of a window onto a world we don’t know. The first, “Fill the Void,” has been called a…
My son, the millennial, graduated from college this past weekend so I am feeling very Tevye-ish (“Is this the little girl I carried, / Is this the little boy at play? / I don’t remember growing older, / When did they?”). Here are two spots that communicate much more elegantly not only my feelings this…
Storytelling can save your (branding) life. Just ask Scheherazade whose captor and, later, consort—the king of Persia—tuned in for a 1001 nights. Storytelling is the word du jour for communicators in every genre. In yesterday’s NYT, there were two wonderful pieces about the importance of narrative as a way to make sense of our world.…
Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo. There’s an art to storytelling and Ira Glass is clearly a master of the craft. In his own way, so is David Shiyang Liu, whose typographic rendering of Glass’s approach brings another layer of art to the story. An energetic, elegant and captivating little film…