Projects tagged "Film, Video & Photo"

Wait Watchers
Practitioner:
Haley Morris-Cafiero
Date:
Feb 11 2013
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The Democracy Wall in Carroll Gardens
Practitioner:
CG CORD/Carroll Gardens Coalition for Respectful Development
Date:
Mar 25 2017
The "Democracy Wall" in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, New York was established in 2009. This wall is a long-term, community art activist project that is part wall mural, part past information archive.
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The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols Video
Practitioner:
RowVaugn Wells
Date:
Jan 27 2023
TYRE NICHOLS WAS a photographer with an eye for the natural world. He was especially drawn to landscape portraiture, its calm and innocence. It is said that Nichols liked to crane his lens skyward, capturing what sunlight he could before it dissolved into the horizon. As he drove home after taking photos on January 7, he was pulled over by the Memphis police and what happened next was as tragic as it is terribly commonplace. Tyre Nichols is dead at 29.
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Experience Getting Old Before Getting Married
Practitioner:
Simple Wedding Movie
Date:
Apr 12 2021
Simple Wedding Movie is an organization in China that cares about love and marriage and offer marriage service. It made a short video with the theme: experience getting old before getting married. Most people would get married in a young and beautiful age. During that time, they are young and beautiful. Because of that, young couple may more likely to have passion and love for each other.
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A Straight Journey: days and nights in their kingdom
Practitioner:
Masamojo
Date:
Apr 23 2015
A Straight Journey is a documentary of Chinese homosexual people. It is the first time for Chinese gays and lesbians to make their debut and speak out via one of the largest Chinese Internet service providers. Two Chinese photographers Masa and Mojo took a journey across 11 China's cities making portraits of 48 gays, lesbians and their families from 2014-2015.
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Urban Art Video Campaign Against Gun Violence Goes Viral
Practitioner:
Change The Ref
Date:
Dec 23 2018
A video campaign titled Sympathy Cards, initially released in 2018, is going viral again. The chilling video depicts, via hidden cameras, shoppers walking by or browsing the greeting cards section at a shop. Shocked, confused, some visibly upset, shoppers freeze when they notice that, along with the traditional selection of greeting cards, is a section devoted to school shootings.
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Ngapartji Ngapartji
Practitioner:
Big hART
Date:
Jan 1 2005
From 2005-2010 the Ngapartji Ngapartji project was based out of Alice Springs, working with Pitjantjatjara communities throughout Central Australia. The project created an online Pitjantjatjara language site, two touring theatre works and a documentary Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji; http://www.nothingrhymeswithngapartji.com/
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"Cuntrol"
Practitioner:
Marilyn Minter
Date:
Jan 21 2020
It’s almost no surprise that the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade happened this past week. Since its enaction in 1973, there have been numerous occasions where politicians and people alike have tried hacking away at its success in reaffirming a women’s right to choose.
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Seaspiracy
Practitioner:
Ali Tabrizi
Date:
Mar 25 2021
"Seaspiracy, a documentary-styled film released on Netflix this week, intends to shock, and on that count it succeeds.
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INTERNATIONAL LINK BEETWEEN FEMALE VIDEO ARTISTS
Practitioner:
FEMLINK
Date:
Jun 7 2012
WHAT IS FEMLINK Who we are ? We are Independent visual artists.
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Kony 2012
Practitioner:
Invisible Children
Date:
Mar 5 2012
In 2004, the United Nations called the LRA crisis in northern Uganda the “most forgotten, neglected humanitarian emergency in the world.” Invisible Children was founded to change that and to fight against the false notion that our responsibility to each other stops at our own nations’ borders.
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Blixel: (Re)stock Image Collection
Practitioner:
Kenya Robinson
Date:
Apr 21 2021
The purpose of this project was the permeate stock images with more depictions of Black people. Stock images are usually easily found and utilized, showcasing people doing everyday activities or scenes. To boost representation of Black people in this particular image field, were left out, so the artist chose to recreate popular stock images with Black models to showcase representation and shed light on the lack of diversity in these photos.
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THE GIVERNY SUITE
Practitioner:
Ja'Tovia Gary
Date:
Sep 1 2023
Filmed in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet's gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY SUITE is a cinematic poem that advocates for the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Employing techniques including hand-painted film animation and montage editing, Gary first developed the work during an artist residency in Giverny, where the gardens offered a space of respite.
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Collateral Murder
Practitioner:
Wikileaks, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Julian Assange
Date:
Apr 5 2010
In July 12 2007, during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, two United States Apache helicopters opened fire to a group of men claiming they were armed and dangerous. Two journalists that belonged to Reuters agency, as well as two children, were part of the attacked group. 
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'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' inspires real-life billboards
Practitioner:
avaaz, Justice 4 Grenfell
Date:
Feb 20 2018
A pair of activist groups have taken a tactic straight from the Oscar front-runner “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
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Twelve Square Meter
Practitioner:
Heng Zhang
Date:
Jul 1 1994
Zhang Huan is a very talented performance artist in China. In the famous work "Twelve Square Meters", he was covered with fish oil and honey sitting in a dirty public toilet in Beijing's East Village for an hour, not only making swarms of flies greedily surround him, but also People feel extremely uncomfortable and even nauseous.
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7 Days of Garbage
Practitioner:
Gregg Segal
Date:
Jul 10 2014
Gregg Segal -- a California-based artist who is known for using the medium of photography to explore culture with the "sensibility of a sociologist" -- asked family, friends, neighbors and other acquaintances to save their trash and recyclables for a week and then lie down and be photographed in it:
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Glam Up the Midterms
Practitioner:
Billy Eichner & Funny or Die
Date:
Nov 6 2018
You think midterm elections are boring? Not this year. Funny Or Die and Billy Eichner are going to Glam Up The Midterms!
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Art Therapist for Human Rights
Practitioner:
Art therapists
Date:
Jan 13 2017
We demand that AATA respond to Karen Pence's stated commitment to our field by asking her to publicly take action for the rights of LGBTQIA people, Native people, Black and Brown people, Muslims, survivors of sexual assault, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees and all people who are in danger as a result of the policies of the current administration.
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#FreeTheNipple Icelandic Style
Practitioner:
Women in Iceland
Date:
Mar 23 2015
It all started when an Icelandic girl took off her top on Twitter in a bid to promote sexual equality, only for her to be verbally attacked by some male Icelandic tit troll. Despite both comments being deleted, Twitter was suddenly awash with bare breasted ladies ("Th?"s one here is for feeding babies.
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Waltz with Bashir
Practitioner:
Ari Folman
Date:
Nov 21 2008
He had served in the army, either as a full-time soldier or as a reservist, for 22 years when he finally decided he wanted out. In 2003, Ari Folman, who had just turned 40, asked his commanders in the Israel Defence Forces to release him from the obligation to do a month's military service every year. They agreed - "so long as you go to the army therapist and talk about everything you went through".
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Cannabis Social Clubs around the planet Earth
Practitioner:
Cannabis friends, Cannabis Social clubs, cannabis activists
Date:
May 4 2013
Message to the world. We are legalizing CANNABIS everywhere in the world, please support us. We are making PICTURES showing us as cannabis smokers or growers, and supporting the legalization. In France, the movement becomes bigger and bigger, check this public profile of a french leader of the CANNABIS SOCIAL CLUBS to see how it looks : https://www.facebook.com/dominique.broc
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Extreme swimmer Lewis Pugh shocks the world with proving cold water is a language not only Russians understand
Practitioner:
Lewis Pugh
Date:
Jan 15 2023
Lewis Pugh typically starts to plan his next extreme-swimming challenge after just enough time has passed for him to have forgotten how deeply unpleasant the last one was. He opens his atlas – I know! An atlas! – and turns the pages until he finds a body of water that captures his imagination.
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Share It To The End
Practitioner:
Singapore Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth
Date:
May 6 2014
To call attention to bullying, the Singapore Coalition Against Bullying for Children and Youth has released a video that gets shorter each time it is viewed. Hosted on a site called Share It To The End, the short animated video depicts a boy getting bullied at school and telling us he always feels alone and doesn’t feel safe anywhere.
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Russell FourEagles - BORN to HEAL
Practitioner:
Todd Dacquisto, Tim Philosophos
Date:
Apr 8 2014
Born 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 healer. His grandmother chose him to learn the accumulated wisdom from over 200 generations of family healers.
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