Monday, April 4, 2011

Found in Translation

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/on-view/found-in-translation

Monday, March 21, 2011

JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PAy1zBtTbw

This is a truly inspirational and motivational artist!

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Videos by Berger

J. Berger made a BBC documentary and his videos are on youtube:
WAYS OF SEEING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI
(4 episodes).

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Monday, February 28, 2011

The Willard Suitcases

http://www.suitcaseexhibit.org/indexhasflash.html

From the project description:
When Willard Psychiatric Center in New York's Finger Lakes closed in 1995, workers discovered hundreds of suitcases in the attic of an abandoned building. Many of them appeared untouched since their owners packed them decades earlier before entering the institution.

The suitcases and their contents bear witness to the rich, complex lives their owners lived prior to being committed to Willard. They speak about aspirations, accomplishments, community connections, but also about loss and isolation.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Filmaker in Residence

http://www.doclab.org/2009/filmmaker-in-residence/?visit

(From the website)

     This is the presentation of the pilot project for the National Film Board of Canada’s (NFB) new Filmmaker in Residence program. It is a continuation of what the NFB started in the 1960s and 1970s with Challenge the Change, and is devoted to community-based media production explicitly aimed at social change.
     For this first project, documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek took up “residence” at the St. Michael Hospital in Toronto. The site explains that staff and patients at the hospital were not merely the subject of her work, but also partners in it.
     Visitors can crisscross through her story at their own tempo, viewing texts, photographs, sound collages, and video images. Cizek follows three organizations that are connected with the hospital at various levels in the community. She joins Brendon, a police officer, and Ellen, a psychiatric nurse, as they work together on the Mobile Crisis Intervention Team. She also accompanies doctors from Dignitas International to Malawi, where the hospital makes its spearheading contribution to the struggle against HIV/AIDS.
    In addition, Cizek works with young women who have experienced homelessness on a photo blog project run by the Young Parents, No Fixed Address network.