Projects tagged "Film, Video & Photo"

"Cops and Robbers" on Netflix
Practitioner:
Timothy Ware-Hill, Arnon Manor, netflix
Date:
Dec 28 2020
Following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, corporations jumped on the opportunity to commodify the Black Lives Matter movement. In June of 2020, Netflix launched a Black Lives Matter collection, and by December, they had released Cops and Robbers, an animated short about racial injustice.
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TIME
Practitioner:
Garrett Bradley
Date:
Oct 16 2020
" Rich is a fighter. The entrepreneur, abolitionist and mother of six boys has spent the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 90s in a moment of desperation.
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Art and Activism (TV Documentary)
Practitioner:
Leonidas Martin, Enmedio, Yomango
Date:
Feb 19 2012
A television report written, directed and produced by Enmedio members Leónidas Martín and Xavier Artigas. Collective projects that see art as a kind of social relationship. Artistic interventions that target consumption, media guerrilla tactics, creative mobilisations and protest, critical projects brimming with humour and disobedience, new narratives capable of changing the existing symbols and codes.
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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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“Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic”
Practitioner:
Dancing Through Prison Walls
Date:
Mar 24 2021
“Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic” features six dances written inside a prison, a 35-minute dance film, and 11 artists (seven choreographic interpreters and four formerly incarcerated narrators) conversing on dancing in carceral spaces.
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Suite Venitienne
Practitioner:
Sophie Calle
Date:
Jan 1 1979
Sophie Calle's works discuss the issue of "privacy", the composition of an individual's identity at the social level, and the relationship between "private" and "public/group/society", including personal information, personal records, public surveillance, and other topics. An obvious feature of her works is the unique and extremely subjective criteria of judgment and reference for measurement.
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In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude
Practitioner:
Various Artists
Date:
May 1 2016
For centuries, (male) artists have perpetuated a relatively consistent image of the female nude: She’s soft, willowy, and docile. Sensual but not sexually aggressive. Flirtatious but not confrontational. She’s not quite a human but, mediated through the lens of a camera and the eyes of a man, an object of desire in the flesh.
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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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GLAAD and Ogilvy Launch “Protect This Kid” Campaign in Support of LGBTQ Youth
Practitioner:
GLAAD, Ogilvy
Date:
Apr 11 2024
On Thursday, April 11th, GLAAD and Ogilvy, a global advertising, marketing and public relations agency, launched a bold worldwide digital campaign, “Protect This Kid,” in support of LGBTQ youth.
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The Crossroads Project
Practitioner:
Robert Davies, Fry St. Quartet
Date:
Apr 3 2012
This month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in decades, these longtime artist-activists were doing what came naturally: fighting the planet’s warming.
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Semiotics of the Kitchen
Practitioner:
Martha Rosler
Date:
Dec 31 1975
“Semiotics of the Kitchen” is a feminist video art that examines the symbolism of women's confinement within domestic spaces, utilizing the framework of a televised cooking show. In this piece, Rosler assumes the role of an "anti-Julia Child," wielding a series of kitchen utensils in alphabetical order, some archaic and peculiar, assigning them arbitrary names before forcefully miming their use.
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There Will Be Blood
Practitioner:
Emma Arvida Bystrom
Date:
May 17 2012
"I got my period in the store!" "I got my period on the car seat!" "My mom talked about my period in front of a cute guy!"
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Egypt’s Hip Hop Revolution Continues: New Videos From The Narcicyst & MC Amin
Practitioner:
The Narcycist
Date:
Feb 29 2012
A year after the revolution, Egypt is still in conflict, still grasping for a catalyst to solidify its society and bring unity and peace to the people. Violence, poverty and unemployement are still rampant, and the voiceless still seek a voice. As was the case in 2011, Hip Hop has reemerged as a voice for the Egyptian youth for 2012, with new challenges and frustrations countering their struggle for freedom and equality.
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Rockers Unite for Haiti Benefits
Practitioner:
Jay-Z, Springsteen, Radiohead, etc.
Date:
Feb 18 2010
Jay-Z rapped alongside side Bono, the Edge and Rihanna; Coldplay's Chris Martin moonlighted as Beyoncé's piano player; Justin Timberlake covered Leonard Cohen — and those performances, from January 22nd's multinetwork, $66 million-grossing telethon for Haitian earthquake victims, were just the most visible of musicians' efforts to raise funds.
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2015
Practitioner:
El Fayed Foundation
Date:
Mar 31 2014
The slogan of 2015 is "Art changes Perceptions, Perceptions change people, People change the world". The organization has created an online community where anyone can post digital images of poverty existing in the Arab world. The action was created in response to the 2000 United Nations Millennium Summit declaration to eradicate extreme poverty throughout the world by 2015.
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Attractive & Fat
Practitioner:
Jes Baker
Date:
May 19 2013
Jes Baker is cutting retailer Abercrombie & Fitch down to size. Baker, who blogs under the name "The Militant Baker" and wears a size 22, changed the brand's A&F logo to "Attractive & Fat" in a mock, black-and-white Abercrombie ad to challenge the line's branding efforts.
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Documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico
Practitioner:
Gabriel Miranda
Date:
May 13 2017
Puerto Rico doesn’t know what’s going on here, and if they do, they’re ignoring us.” So opens Gabriel Miranda’s documentary Vietnam, Puerto Rico. Focused on the coastal community of Vietnam, which is located in the Guaynabo, the doc tells the story of a disenfranchised population being displaced over the past two decades to make room for a glitzy new waterfront development.
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Ice Watch
Practitioner:
Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing
Date:
Dec 14 2018
Does it vex you, the environmental impact of Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch? Do you hear about the transportation of 30 icebergs from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland to be displayed in London as a memento mori for our inhabitable environment and judge the project a bit of an own-goal, sustainability-wise? You would not be alone – on personal evidence, this seems a popular response.
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Shine MSD
Practitioner:
Sawyer Garrity, Andrea Peña, Brittani Kagan, students and faculty of MSD
Date:
May 4 2018
Shine, written by Stoneman Douglas students Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña in response to the tragic shooting at their school on February 14, 2018 to inspire unity, hope, and change. MSD alum Brittani Kagan collaborated with students and faculty to create this music video to honor the victims and the school.
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Daily Bread
Practitioner:
Gregg Segal
Date:
Jun 4 2019
Gregg Segal -- a California-based artist who is known for using the medium of photography to explore culture with the "sensibility of a sociologist" -- travelled around the world asking kids to keep a journal of everything they ate in a week. Once the week was up, Segal made a portrait of the child with the food arranged around them:
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Orca whale light/drone performance in Russia
Practitioner:
Greenpeace
Date:
Feb 17 2023
A performance in support of a bill banning the catch of cetaceans for cultural and educational purposes in Russia. The bill was supposed to pass readings in the lower house of parliament but unfortunately it was postponed; this activity is meant to help generate support for it to pass. The action was timed to coincide with the World Whale and Dolphin Day (Feb 19).
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Dying to Breathe: The Unseen Cost of Gold Mining
Practitioner:
Sim Chi Yin
Date:
May 15 2015
Photographer Sim Chi Yin spent more than three years documenting a Chinese gold miner who is suffering from the deadly lung disease silicosis. Despite the odds, his loving relationship with his wife has kept him alive much longer than anyone expected.
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Documentary on art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires
Practitioner:
Graffitimundo
Date:
Oct 1 2008
'White Walls Say Nothing’ is the first feature-length film of its kind to explore art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has oscillated between dictatorship and democracy for over a century, and its citizens have barely known political or economic stability.
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Life Line Booth
Practitioner:
Life Line Booth
Date:
Jan 1 2013
3-part webseries where Life Line Booths are set up with donated items in homeless communities for anyone's taking. In addition to practical aid, we provide blank canvases, paper and markers for visitors to express their thoughts and share their stories. Through these shared stories, we hope to shatter the stigmas about homelessness at large.
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Not Photoshopped
Practitioner:
Feel More Better, Bloggers
Date:
Jul 10 2012
From StyleCaster:
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