Draft talk:Rebecca Baron

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Douglasgoodwin (talk · contribs) This user has declared a connection. (Longtime colleague and artistic collaborator of the subject; co-director with her of the Lossless series (2008) and Nearest Neighbor (2023), both of which are discussed in the draft.)

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I have a conflict of interest with this subject (disclosed above and on my user page) and am submitting this draft through AfC for independent review rather than creating it directly.

Two sections deserve particular scrutiny because they describe works I co-directed: "Lossless" and the final paragraph of "Themes and critical reception" (the 2023 Block Museum program, which includes Nearest Neighbor and my own Artifact #1). I have tried to confine those passages to what independent sources say — the Lossless material rests on Jaimie Baron (Routledge, 2014), Jihoon Kim (Bloomsbury, 2016), the Austrian Film Museum, and the Harvard Gazette; the Block paragraph rests on the museum's own program page only. I would have no objection to a reviewer trimming or removing the Nearest Neighbor sentence if it is judged under-sourced.

The notability case rests on the independent scholarly treatments (Rascaroli/Oxford, J. Baron/Routledge, Kim/Bloomsbury, the Sarbanes interview in Beckman & Ma/Duke), the Austrian Film Museum retrospective, the Harvard Film Archive programs, the 2000 Whitney Biennial, the Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships, and authored criticism in Documentary (IDA), Screen Slate, and SAIC's Conversations at the Edge. Douglasgoodwin (talk) 02:05, 3 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Update: I have since added a short Nearest Neighbor subsection sourced to Visions du Réel (2023 world premiere) and Film Comment. Douglasgoodwin (talk) 03:27, 3 September 2026 (UTC)Reply