{"id":2376,"date":"2017-11-10T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/11\/10\/forget-the-cat-lady-archetype-good-art-works-harder-in-samanthas-amazing-acrocats\/"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:25:00","slug":"forget-the-cat-lady-archetype-good-art-works-harder-in-samanthas-amazing-acrocats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/11\/10\/forget-the-cat-lady-archetype-good-art-works-harder-in-samanthas-amazing-acrocats\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the &#8216;Cat Lady&#8217; Archetype: Good Art Works Harder in &#8216;Samantha\u2019s Amazing Acrocats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/11\/samanthas-amazing-acrocats-docnyc-interview\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_medium\/public\/saac_performance.jpg?itok=1NovDT1W\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n\u201cI had never seen anything like this before.\u201d&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not just enough to find an eccentric character and let their quirks motivate your film. A good documentary reaches past the eccentric spectacle for a story of universal human experiences. Otherwise, in filmmaker Jacob Feiring\u2019s words, it\u2019s \u201cfutile.\u201d Feiring took that to heart when he decided to follow<strong> <\/strong>Samantha<strong> <\/strong>Martin\u2019s<strong> <\/strong>shoestring cat circus for over five years to create <em>Samantha\u2019s Amazing Acrocats<\/em>, premiering at DOC NYC this weekend.&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#8220;My concerns surrounding this subject matter led to a very observational approach.&#8221;&#013;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nofilmschool.com\/2017\/11\/samanthas-amazing-acrocats-docnyc-interview\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NoFilmSchool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; \u201cI had never seen anything like this before.\u201d&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; It\u2019s not just enough to find an eccentric character&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Ck","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}