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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

  • Food & Drink

    A Multitude of Singularities

    Genuine Goodness at Afrikando Banadir
    Posted on 05/23/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Rhythm on My Heels’

    Josef Škvorecký was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924 and died in Toronto earlier this year.
    Posted on 05/16/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Hit So Hard’

    This straightforward documentary is about Patty Schemel, the drummer on Hole’s most important contribution to the history of rock, Live Through This.
    Posted on 05/16/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    Native Land: A Documentary by American Commies
    Posted on 05/16/2012
  • Suggests

    In the Country

    This superb Norwegian trio brings to jazz the exhaustion, world-weariness, and pop-culture melancholy of post-rock.
    Posted on 05/09/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Eden’

    Megan Griffiths’s third film—Griffiths is a rising star in Seattle’s filmmaking scene and one of three nominees for the 2012 Genius Award—doesn’t have one dull moment in it.
    Posted on 05/09/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    Patience (After Sebald): A Great Documentary About a Great Writer
    Posted on 05/09/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    I Stand Corrected at Translations: The Seattle Transgender Film Festival
    Posted on 05/02/2012
  • Film

    The Island President: Trying to Save the Maldives from Rising Oceans and Islamist Extremists

    The Island President: Trying to Save the Maldives from Rising Oceans and Islamist Extremists
    Posted on 05/02/2012
  • Books

    The Selfish Gene Goes to War

    The Father of Sociobiology Changes His Mind
    Posted on 05/02/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Elles’

    As a film about the realities of sex work in present-day Paris, Elles stumbles.
    Posted on 04/25/2012
  • Features

    Four Factories

    Charles Mudede Visits a Concrete Factory, a Mattress Factory, a Sandal Factory, and a Fortune Cookie Factory
    Posted on 04/25/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    Monsieur Lazhar: Tres Bien (Until the End)
    Posted on 04/25/2012
  • Theater

    Jimmy Carter Superstar

    Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Jimmy Carter Is Our Jesus
    Posted on 04/25/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Monsieur Lazhar’

    A famous and useful law of scriptwriting: no animals, no water, and no children.
    Posted on 04/18/2012
  • Film

    Surviving Progress: Chimps Will Never Go to Space

    Surviving Progress: Chimps Will Never Go to Space
    Posted on 04/18/2012
  • Suggests

    In a Silent Way: The Music of Electric Miles Davis

    Two critics shaped the way I think about music: Stanley Crouch (jazz) and Greg Tate (hiphop).
    Posted on 04/11/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    The Iron Lady: A Bad Film About a Great Person
    Posted on 04/11/2012
  • Suggests

    E. O. Wilson

    Back in 1975, E. O. Wilson caused a storm in the academic world with a book called Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, in which he treated human sociality in the same way he treated the sociality of other animals: ants, great apes, and so on.
    Posted on 04/04/2012
  • Film

    Once Upon a Time in Anatolia: A Majestically Slow Crime Thriller

    Once Upon a Time in Anatolia: A Majestically Slow Crime Thriller
    Posted on 04/04/2012

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