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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.

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  • Suggests

    ‘A Doll’s House’

    Something marvelous happens at the very end of Seattle Shakespeare Company’s solid production of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
    Posted on 01/09/2013
  • Suggests

    ‘Hannah Arendt’

    Hannah Arendt, the opening feature of SIFF’s Women in Cinema festival, is about that peerless philosopher’s most significant contribution...
    Posted on 01/09/2013
  • Film

    Art House

    Holy Motors: The Surprising Erection in a Great Movie
    Posted on 01/09/2013
  • Film

    Rust and Bone: Killer Whales and Legless Sex

    Rust and Bone: Killer Whales and Legless Sex
    Posted on 01/09/2013
  • Theater

    Enjoy the Silence

    Almost Nothing Is Wrong with Seattle Shakespeare Company's A Doll's House
    Posted on 01/09/2013
  • Columns

    Last Months

    Looking Back on a Year’s Worth of Last Days
    Posted on 01/02/2013
  • Film

    Art House

    The Best Films I Saw This Year
    Posted on 12/26/2012
  • Music

    The 206 in the 2012

    My Top Five Hiphop Tracks of 2012
    Posted on 12/26/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    Children of Men Is for Your Eyes Only
    Posted on 12/19/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Manhattan’

    There is so much to love in this superb work of American cinema.
    Posted on 12/12/2012
  • Suggests

    Shabazz Palaces and THEESatisfaction

    Shabazz Palaces and THEESatisfaction form the basis for a family of Northwest artists that includes the hiphop producer OCnotes...
    Posted on 12/12/2012
  • Visual Art

    Anatomy of a Building

    An Anatomy of the Next Big Thing in Local Architecture
    Posted on 12/05/2012
  • Film

    See Me, Feel Me, Eat Me

    An Old Woman Lovingly Eats a Young Man's Intestines in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's New Cinema of Feeling
    Posted on 12/05/2012
  • Film

    How to Make a Great Film 
for Only $9,000

    How Zach Weintraub Made a Great Film for Only $9,000
    Posted on 12/05/2012
  • Music

    Some of That Jazz

    The Jazz I'm Most Looking Forward to This Season
    Posted on 12/05/2012
  • Welcome, Gay Marriage!

    Don’t Do It Like They Did

    A Very Brief History of Very Bad Straight Marriages
    Posted on 12/05/2012
  • Film

    The Heat of R. Kelly's Imagination

    R. Kelley's Trapped in the Closet Tests the Limits of Narration
    Posted on 11/28/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    Radio Unnameable: Experimental Radio as Twitter's Grandfather
    Posted on 11/28/2012
  • Music

    The World Is Yours

    Two Concept Albums by OC Notes
    Posted on 11/28/2012
  • Film

    Art House

    The Best Film Ever About a House DJ
    Posted on 11/21/2012

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