Projects tagged "Film, Video & Photo"

Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée)
Practitioner:
Eléonore Pourriat
Date:
Feb 1 2014
On what seems to be just another ordinary day, a man is exposed to sexism and sexual violence in a society ruled by women... Eléonore Pourriat's short film imagines how a man might experience a sexual assault in a matriarchal society.
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Photo: Mermaid Ocean Activist at a Climate Protest Against Fossil Fuel Donations & Subsidies at the Office of Far-Right Politician. Video: Displaced Mermaids Genetic Link To Bleached Reef Corals
Practitioner:
Sandy of The Sea
Date:
Jun 22 2016
Sandy of The Sea with Ocean News on the bleaching of marine species! This is an exciting yet troubling breakthrough for marine species. A new genetic study has proven that mermaids may be more closely related to fragile Branching Corals. Marine biologists have received test results carried out on Table Coral and Mermaids (Table Coral is a branching type of coral).
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Music video in support of gay marriage rights
Practitioner:
Sam Smith
Date:
Feb 5 2015
Grammy nominee and Rolling Stone cover star Sam Smith unveiled the video for his new single "Lay Me Down," the latest track off his platinum-selling debut album In the Lonely Hour. The video, filmed at the parish church of St.
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A Homeless Polar Bear In London
Practitioner:
greenpeace - savethearctic.org along with Radiohead and Jude Law
Date:
Feb 12 2012
With Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" as the soundscape, Jude Law narrates in this powerfully sad little video clip created in collaboration with Greenpeace. Please visit savethearctic.org and sign the petition.
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10 Rappers Turned Social Activists-Vince Staples
Practitioner:
Vince Staples
Date:
Jul 11 2016
Vince Staples mentioned Long Beach's Ramona Park approximately 80 times on his debut album Summertime '06 and even allotted the park two of its own tracks: "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 1" and "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 2." "The sun come down and guns come out, you know Ramona Park."
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Occupy Love
Practitioner:
Velcrow Ripper
Date:
May 3 2013
Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred, Fierce Light) on a journey deep inside the revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet, as he asks the question, “How could the crisis we are facing become a love story?”
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LezFem's Diary
Practitioner:
LezFem
Date:
May 17 2014
The current cultural and political context in Macedonia marginalizes lesbians and women in general, and the dominant political party forces the traditional role of the woman, where she is a mother, a housewife, and of course, heterosexual. Furthermore, the major TV stations are flooded with Turkish soap operas, where traditional values are the leitmotif of the show.
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Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms
Practitioner:
German Doctors
Date:
Apr 27 2020
A group of German doctors have posed naked in an attempt to draw attention to shortages of protective clothing and equipment. Calling their protest Blanke Bedenken, or Naked Qualms, members of the group said they felt at risk from coronavirus and claimed their calls for help over several months had gone unheeded.
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Op-Doc A Conversation With Latinos on Race
Practitioner:
JOE BREWSTER, BLAIR FOSTER and MICHÈLE STEPHENSON
Date:
Feb 29 2016
In this short documentary, Latinos grapple with defining their ethnic and racial identities http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/opinion/a-conversation-with-latinos-on...
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The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hope
Practitioner:
David Gere, Gideon Mendel
Date:
Nov 28 2019
For artist Vasilios Papapitsios, going public with his HIV status has been gradual.
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Huntsville Fighting Covid
Practitioner:
Smarter Every Day
Date:
Apr 7 2020
Destin from the Youtube channel Smarter Every Day has started the "Hunstville Fighting Covid" website in order to mobilize and teach those who have 3D printers how to print Personal Protective Equipment to aid medical professionals fighting the COVID-19 epidemic.
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Rise, Resist & Unite...V-Day & The Vagina Monolouges
Practitioner:
V-Day Sedona/ Organizations Across the Globe
Date:
Feb 17 2018
Back after a five year hiatus, V-Day Sedona joins with hundreds of other productions across the globe in celebrating V-Day’s 20th anniversary with an act of artistic activism. For its 20th anniversary, V-Day is calling on activists around the world to Rise, Resist and Unite.
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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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Cheat Neutral
Practitioner:
Christian Hunt, Alex Randall
Date:
Nov 19 2009
Cheat Neutral satirizes the carbon offset model by offering people the opportunity to pay someone else not to cheat on their partner in order to neutralize their own infidelity. Cheatneutral allows you to pay £2.50 to carry on cheating while funding “monogamy-boosting offset projects”.
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"Deport the Statue" Campaign
Practitioner:
Breakthrough
Date:
Jun 13 2013
It’s time to deport the Statue of Liberty. That’s the latest mission for Legals for the Preservation of American Culture, an organization which has begun the “Deport the Statue” campaign for the removal of Lady Liberty through four Twitter accounts and a video that hopes to prove the iconic statue is not only an undocumented French immigrant but is “taking a job away from a qualified American statue.”
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Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container
Practitioner:
Christoph Schlingensief
Date:
Jun 11 2000
Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (Ausländer raus! Schlingensiefs Container), alternately named "Wien-Aktion", "Please Love Austria—First European Coalition Week", or "Foreigners Out—Artists against Human Rights", is an art project and television show from 2000 that took place within the scope of the annual Wiener Festwochen. It was created by Christoph Schlingensief and directed by Paul Poet.
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American Prison Perpestives
Practitioner:
Christoph Gielen
Date:
Apr 11 2010
With American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions.
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Penis seats for men
Practitioner:
Mexico City Government
Date:
Mar 30 2017
In a conceptually odd but undeniably memorable PSA campaign, the Mexico City Metro has installed a “penis seat” in one of its subway cars, featuring a molded likeness of a man’s torso and penis, to get male riders thinking about the sexual harassment that women endure every day. The seat is labeled “For men only.”
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With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold Statement
Practitioner:
makelovenotscars.org
Date:
Sep 10 2015
In her peppy and helpful online video tutorial, Reshma Bano Quereshi promises to teach her viewers “how to get perfect red lips.” But unlike the more than 200,000 other online videos dedicated to the application of lipstick, this one goes beyond plumping and priming.
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Earthrise
Practitioner:
Bill Anders
Date:
Dec 24 1968
What he captured became one of the most influential images in history. A driving force of the environmental movement, the picture, which became known as Earthrise, showed the world as a singular, fragile, oasis.
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Abercrombie and Fat
Practitioner:
Jes Baker
Date:
May 20 2013
Jes Baker, 26, created a campaign called Abercrombie and Fat in response to the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch. In 2006, the CEO released a statement that his target consumer is the cool, All American kid who has a lot of friends. He continues to say that his business is exclusive and a lot of people do not belong in his clothes.
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Thus.
Practitioner:
nilankur
Date:
Mar 1 2014
This is an attempt to foster critical thinking and create social capital. www.thuscritique.wordpress.com
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Nazi control room reopens as Topography of Terror museum in Berlin
Practitioner:
Berlin Artist
Date:
May 6 2010
It was once the most feared address in Berlin, a place easy to enter but very hard to leave. Now the ruins of the former engine room of Nazi terror at Prinz Albrecht Strasse in Berlin have been preserved in a new exhibition space open to the public from tomorrow.
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Herself
Practitioner:
Caitlin Stasey, Hannah Terry-Whyte, Keenan MacWilliam
Date:
May 13 2015
Herself.com may not be safe for work, but it FEELS safe for work. That's how intimate and gorgeous the shots of these naked women are, they transcend, for some, the feeling that you are looking at the taboo. You are simply looking at a person, in a quality of artistry that you might not be used to seeing on what are deemed "regular people".
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Balls Across America
Practitioner:
The Yes Men
Date:
Jan 1 2008
The Survivaball made its first appearance in 2006, when "Halliburton representatives" attended a conference on catastrophic climate change and demonstrated the functionality of the large inflatable suits ("a gated community for one"), which keep corporate managers safe from global warming. Not long afterward, in Berlin, the Yes Men learned they also work as disruptive, arrest-resistant tools.
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