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Sean Nam

Sean Nam is a former boxing beat reporter for USA Today. His writing has appeared in Boxing Scene, Cineaste, The Dublin Review of Books, and The Brooklyn Rail.

Art of the Real 2016: The Mesh and the Circle, Roundabout in My Head, The Moon and the Sledgehammer, & The Woods Where Dreams Are Made Of

Art of the Real 2016: The Mesh and the Circle, Roundabout in My Head, & More

by Sean Nam
April 10, 2016

Implicit in Hassen Ferhani’s Roundabout in My Head is the notion that there should be a certain level of trust between filmmaker and his subjects.

Art of the Real 2015: The Royal Road, The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk, & Becoming Anita Ekberg

Art of the Real 2015: The Royal Road, The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk, & Becoming Anita Ekberg

by Sean Nam
April 14, 2015

Fundamentally, Jenni Olson’s The Royal Road is a paean to the Bay Area landscape.

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