New York Times February 13, 2009 | | Ken Johnson | | "...The shorter videos, which range from one and a half to four and a half minutes, are more tightly focused. An elderly man tells about surviving a fall down his basement stairs. “They accused me of having seizures,” he recalls, “and I said, ‘I don’t have no dogs.’ ” In a rich, Southern-accented baritone, another older man, who is white, tells a comical, racially loaded story about his black nanny. In less sensitive hands these people would come off as exotic grotesques. Mr. Miner studies them with a cool but infectiously generous spirit...." |