Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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Project Catalyst
Read more: Project CatalystProject Catalyst specializes in designing culturally rich entertainment experiences that re-imagine the empowering possibilities of cinema and media from a multicultural perspective. Project Catalyst exemplifies the efficacy and essential value of art and cinema at the intersections of social justice…
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Ghetto Film School
Read more: Ghetto Film SchoolThe mission of The Ghetto Film School is to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers. External sources: http://www.ghettofilm.org/
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LA Rebellion
Read more: LA RebellionIn the late 1960s, in the aftermath of the Watts Uprising and against the backdrop of the continuing Civil Rights Movement and the escalating Vietnam War, a group of African and African American students entered the UCLA School of Theater,…
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The Black Cinema House
Read more: The Black Cinema HouseBlack Cinema House hosts screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora, and offers video classes to neighborhood youth, teaching the next generation to make their own films and tell their own stories. External sources:…
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THE BAREFOOT ARTIST
Read more: THE BAREFOOT ARTISTBorn in China in 1941, artist Lily Yeh experienced first-hand the ravages of that country’s civil war when her family became refugees, fleeing to Taiwan as the communists took over. That personal story and the story of Yeh’s global art…
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DISAPPEARED IN AMERICA
Read more: DISAPPEARED IN AMERICADISAPPEARED IN AMERICA is an ongoing project by Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen that uses films, installations, and lectures to trace migration impulses, hyphenated identities, and the post-9/11 security panic. Excerpts of the project have been shown at various venues, including the…
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Leaving the Googleplex
Read more: Leaving the Googleplex“Ex Google employee Andrew Norman Wilson’s video Workers Leaving the Googleplex investigates the marginalized class of Google Books’ “ScanOps” workers at their international headquarters in Silicon Valley while simultaneously chronicling the complex events surrounding his own dismissal from the company.”…
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Palestine: Cartography of an Occupation
Read more: Palestine: Cartography of an OccupationFrom creativetimereports.org: Artist-activist collective MTL’s clickable collages connect disparate aspects of Palestine’s geographical and political landscape, offering provocative insight into “how Palestinians suffer and struggle in ways that are parallel to those elsewhere” according to philosopher Michael Hardt. About MTL:…
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Russell FourEagles – BORN to HEAL
Read more: Russell FourEagles – BORN to HEALBorn to Heal, a documentary exploring the life of Native American healer, Russell FourEagles, and a handful of the lives he has touched. Growing up in a tarpaper shack in the north woods, Russell FourEagles was born to be a…
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The Inside Out Project
Read more: The Inside Out Project“I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we’ll turn the world…INSIDE OUT.” – JR, TED2011 “On March 2, 2011, at the TED Conference in Long Beach,…