Projects tagged "Film, Video & Photo"

12 year old bride in Times Square
Practitioner:
Cody Persin
Date:
Feb 24 2016
In order to raise awareness about the global issue of arranged child marriages, 21-year-old YouTube star Coby Persin decided to push the envelope by asking a 12-year-old 'bride' to pose with a 65-year-old 'groom' in the middle of Times Square. Child marriage is not only legal in 91 countries around the world, but even continues to be legal in the United States - with some having a cut off as low as 12 years of age.
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Nan Goldin’s “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” Showcases the Artist’s Defiant Activism
Practitioner:
Laura Poitras, Nan Goldin
Date:
Nov 23 2022
Laura Poitras’s Academy Award–nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) about photographer Nan Goldin is a powerful and thoughtfully constructed film. Focusing on Goldin’s work with the activist group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (PAIN), it allows viewers to continue appreciating the ongoing rebellion and inspiration of this singular artist.
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Two young Black Chicago women are using art and activism to change narratives about Black communities
Practitioner:
Another Life
Date:
Jul 31 2017
Both Johnson and Lewis recognize that the personal is political, and vice versa. By making connections between storytelling and activism, the two young women are using creative approaches to achieving justice and equity.
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Teachers in Their Power
Practitioner:
Kat Clark
Date:
Apr 27 2023
Teachers in Their Power is a storytelling project focused on changing the narrative about the teaching profession.
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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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Project Catalyst
Practitioner:
Artel Great
Date:
Apr 9 2014
Project 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 and the modern technologies of everyday life.
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
Practitioner:
Iranti
Date:
Jan 3 2012
ONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what they see and hear.
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The Sexist of the Year
Practitioner:
Tomas Gunnarsson
Date:
Jan 1 2012
This week's Swede of the Week is Tomas Gunnarsson, whose quest to find Sweden's "Sexist of the Year" has found a viral following across the country. He says Swedes who buy into the 'most equal country in the world' label are delusional. Who was the most sexist person in Sweden in 2013?
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Fanged Wilds and Women
Practitioner:
VC Bestor
Date:
Jan 1 2015
grrrRoar! Ecology is sexier when you focus on women and fanged beasts. Fashions in leopard print help us make that connection globally and online. Polluters at least pause at the reminder that nature isn't dead yet and in fact stirs the same passion as the woman you just met who's saying something about "Fanged Wilds"!
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This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic Pollution
Practitioner:
Benjamin Von Wong
Date:
Oct 14 2021
Benjamin Von Wong’s latest art-as-activism installation looks like something Photoshopped onto reality. A large brass-looking faucet, suspended in the air, pours a river of plastic out of its spout.
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Jiangshanjiao, do they talk to you like this?
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Date:
May 9 2020
On Feb 17, 2020, the official account of The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League on Weibo announced the launch of its virtual idols "Hongqiman" and "Jiangshanjiao", and set up a new official microblog, and called on people to "come and support the League Idols".
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Fashion’s biggest names are drawing penises for a great cause
Practitioner:
Dominic Myatt
Date:
Apr 16 2021
You might think that pictures of dicks (usually unsolicited) aren’t particularly hard to come by on the internet. And most of those dick pics aren’t particularly expertly composed. But that’s not the case for Penile Papers, a new collection of phallic art curated by London-based artist Dominic Myatt.
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FACELESS
Practitioner:
MANU LUKSCH
Date:
May 13 2007
FACELESS was produced under the rules of the 'Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers'. The manifesto states, amongst other things, that additional cameras are not permitted at filming locations, as the omnipresent existing video surveillance (CCTV) is already in operation.
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Film and Video Games: A Docugame
Practitioner:
David Dufresne
Date:
Nov 26 2013
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: " While filming a documentary about divisive oil refinery ventures in the subzero cold of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the director David Dufresne said he wasn’t considering only pollution in that Canadian boomtown or the vast tar sands beneath its frozen ground. He was also thinking deeply about technology, about making a new kind of hybrid media, a docugame.
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Inside Out Project
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Mar 2 2011
After winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement by displaying large-scale black and white portraits in public spaces. Through their “Actions,” communities around the world have sparked collaborations and conversations.
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Tracking Transience
Practitioner:
Hasan Elahi
Date:
Jan 1 2002
An erroneous tip called into law enforcement authorities in 2002 subjected Hasan Elahi to an intensive investigation by the FBI and after undergoing months of interrogations, he was finally cleared of suspicions. After this harrowing experience, Elahi conceived “Tracking Transience” and opened just about every aspect of his life to the public.
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No nos vamos, nos echan
Practitioner:
Juventud sin Futuro- Youth without a Future
Date:
Apr 7 2013
The "no nos vamos, nos echan" campaign speaks to making the invisible visible through pictures, videos and global mass demonstrations. Hopefully the Spanish government and other political players in Spain and Europe will see the faces of the population forced in exile.
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Social Experiment: 65-Year-Old Man Tries To Marry A 12-Year-Old Girl In NYC
Practitioner:
Youtuber Coby Persin
Date:
Feb 24 2016
The statistics in regards to older men marrying young girls is mind boggling and disgusting. Every day 33,000 girls are married to older men, denied their rights to education and opportunity and robbed of their childhood. Many countries around the world find this practice normal, thankfully we do not find it normal here in the United States. More than 91 countries allow girls as young as six-years-old to be married. This is a problem.
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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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Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Jan 1 2006
Exhibition visitors have expressed feelings of uneasiness or even pain and nostalgia when seeing Colored Vases by Ai Weiwei1. The 51 vases that make up the artwork are originally treasures from the Neolithic Age (5000–3000 BCE) and the artist has dunked them in common industrial paint. Why did Ai Weiwei do it?
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Same Curriculum, Different opportunities
Practitioner:
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
Date:
Dec 6 2013
Created a platform to showcase disparities that are therein in public basic schools verses the private schools. Simple a call to duty bearers to act on the deplorable physical learning environment existing in the public schools , because the environment impacts teaching and learning.
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Valie Export, TAPP und TASTKINO (TAP and TOUCH CINEMA) 1968/1989
Practitioner:
VALIE EXPORT
Date:
Jan 1 1968
At age twenty-eight, Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to VALIE EXPORT, in all uppercase letters, to announce her presence in the Viennese art scene. Eager to counter the male–dominated group of artists known as the Vienna Actionists—including Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler—she sought a new identity that was not bound by her father's name (Lehner) or her former husband's name (Hollinger).
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Seaspiracy
Practitioner:
Ali Tabrizi
Date:
Mar 24 2021
"Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species - and uncovers alarming global corruption."
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Bernie Sanders Gets His Own Video Game
Practitioner:
Illuminator, Act.TV, NYC Light Brigade
Date:
Apr 17 2016
Bernie Sanders supporters know how to bring the party! And they did it big time for the Democratic Debate in New York this week, with help from The Illuminator & the NYC Light Brigade. They installed an interactive video game featuring Bernie jumping over obstacles and WINNING!
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Controversy in the Wild Kingdom of Couture
Practitioner:
Kylie Jenner
Date:
Jan 25 2023
PARIS — Ten a.m. on a frigid Monday morning, the first day of the couture shows, and Kylie Jenner was strutting through the marble halls of the Petit Palais trying to find her seat for Schiaparelli, shoehorned into spiky stilettos and a black velvet one-arm gown, a full-size tawny lion’s head jutting from the side. It was as if Aslan had taken a break from Narnia and stuck his muzzle through a time-space continuum under her armpit.
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