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Charles Mudede

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Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory of this birth, but he does remember noticing himself in the mirror for this first time—it happened on May 3, 1972. Mudede is also a filmmaker: Two of his films, Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and Zoo was screened at Cannes. Mudede his written for the New York Times, Cinema Scope, Ars Electronica, C Theory, and academic journals. He also wrote the liner notes for Best of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien: Elektra Years. Mudede has lived in Seattle since 1989.

More Articles by Charles Mudede

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Date

  • Film

    Art House

    Bollywood History Lesson
    Posted on 04/04/2012
  • Film

    Four Lovers: Imagining a New Sexual Morality, for a While

    Four Lovers: Imagining a New Sexual Morality, for a While
    Posted on 04/04/2012
  • Film

    The Salt of Life: The Bearable Lightness of Being

    The Salt of Life: The Bearable Lightness of Being
    Posted on 04/04/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘The Salt of Life’

    What Gianni Di Gregorio’s The Salt of Life shares with his previous film, Mid-August Lunch, is a sense of life’s lightness.
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Film

    Spring Film Calendar

    Everything Happening in Film This Season
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    A Girl Becomes a Woman in Teabag Country
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Music

    Charles Mudede Picks Up the Telephone

    Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner Answers the Telephone
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Music

    All That Jazz

    A Guide to Jazz Clubs in Seattle
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Music

    Some of That Jazz

    The Jazz Charles Mudede Is Most Looking Forward to This Spring
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘North by Northwest’

    A great film is much like a great party, and what makes a party great is not the host or even the location but whom the host invites.
    Posted on 03/21/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    The Horror of an Israeli Slasher Film
    Posted on 03/21/2012
  • Music

    The World We Live In

    An Interview with Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White of THEESatisfaction
    Posted on 03/21/2012
  • Suggests

    THEESatisfaction

    On July 4, 2010, THEESatisfaction (Catherine Harris-White, Stasia Irons) dropped THEESatisfaction Loves Stevie Wonder Why We Celebrate Colonialism, an EP with tracks named after American presidents.
    Posted on 03/14/2012
  • Visual Art

    Real but Barely So

    Art That Rains and Art That Texts You by Susie J. Lee
    Posted on 03/14/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    Rendez-vous with French Cinema Is the Best SIFF Showcase Yet
    Posted on 03/14/2012
  • Rock-and-Roll Survival Guide

    How to Be Successful Without Being an Asshole

    How to Be a Superstar Without Losing Your Heading
    Posted on 03/14/2012
  • Suggests

    Skream and Benga

    Back in the middle of the previous decade, UK producers Skream and Benga played a central role in developing a new direction in music that was dark, deep, heady, and utterly urban.
    Posted on 03/07/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    The Dreileben Trilogy
    Posted on 03/07/2012
  • Music

    Borderless as a Multinational Corporation

    Spoek Mathambo Is the Globalist Producer
    Posted on 03/07/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Chico & Rita’

    Directed by the Spaniard Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and set mostly in the late 1940s, the Oscar-nominated animated feature Chico & Rita is a simple story about what makes great music and art: sex.
    Posted on 02/29/2012

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