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Pursuing graduate studies in New York and Paris, Conrad returned to Cambridge and became an active member of a growing filmmaking community. "While the great independent repertory houses like the Symphony and the Park Square were closing, people around here weregrowing active making movies. I had always wanted to be a poet, but I began to find film appealing--a universally accessible medium that I found attractive and fascinating...
...Conrad's early work is exclusively documentary (Three Thousand Years and Life, Cutting Up Old Touches), but with Dozens he moves into feature films. "Though most certainly a fiction feature, the film contains documentary elements. It is designed to make you think of your city and the people with whom you live. Your mind is frequently take off the fictional element by recognizing what is real." The film, the recipient of awards at film festivals around the world, was first released last April and has aired on national public television...
While at Harvard, Conrad "saw as many movies as possible," and studied film aesthetics with Stanley Cavell, Cabot Professor of the General Theory of Values and Aesthetics. He also wrote film reviews for The Crimson: "They were not at all good; I was still learning," says Conrad, adding, "Don't look them...
THIS IS DOZENS, a vicious, angry, game rooted in the Black ghetto culture of our country, a ritual in which participants vent physical hostility through a series of rhymes and insults. When we first meet the young woman portrayed in Christine Dall and Randall Conrad's The Dozens, she is yelling at a correctional officer, playing the game, sharpening the instincts that serve her as well in the outside world as they do in prison...
...Dall and Conrad avoid making Sally's fate obvious by the introduction of unpredictable elements and a dynamic tension created by a slowly emerging subplot. The calculated use of humor prevents the story line from lapsing into static dramatic inevitability. Conrad and Dall frequently objectify Sally's viewpoint by allowing her to comment upon what has happened, or what is occurring within a given shot. While the image remains intact, her voice, satirizing the dramatic situation or directly addressing the audience, comes from off the screen. She second-guesses our reading of the film ("I'll bet you're saying...