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Projects tagged "Film, Video & Photo"

SARS
Practitioner:
Emily Shinada and Haley SIlverman
Date:
Apr 19 2008
A video collaboration betweenHayley Silverman and Emily Shinada. Using clips from a Japanese pornography film, the video highlights fears of interpersonal connection and explores the objectification of women.  It was on view at Alogon Gallery for theWomen Get Fucked exhibition.
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Philadelphia Eagles' Malcolm Jenkins Silently Responds to Press Questions by Holding Up Signs on Criminal Justice System
Practitioner:
Malcolm Jenkins
Date:
Jun 6 2018
No description available
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Arruinados
Practitioner:
O Teatrão/Companhia Fantasma
Date:
Aug 1 2013
In July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the Mondego River:Coimbra, Montemoro Velho, and Figueira da Foz.
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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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Reclaiming the Monument
Practitioner:
Black Lives Matter
Date:
Jul 28 2020
Text by Jessica Stewart - In Virginia, one artist is helping his community reclaim a controversial monument in the name of Black Lives Matter. The Robert E. Lee Monument now stands as the only remaining Confederate statue on Richmond's historic Monument Avenue. While litigation ties up the statue's removal, light projection artist Dustin Klein is using his art to change the meaning of this contentious monument.
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Russell Brand Mocks MSNBC News Anchors and the Mainstream Media on Live Television and in Print
Practitioner:
Russell Brand
Date:
Jun 17 2013
On June 17, 2013, Russell Brand (a stand-up comedian and actor) visited MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' news show to promote his international stand-up tour, 'The Messiah Complex', but he also managed to mock the 'Morning Joe' news anchors, as well as the mainstream media. Clips of this particular interview immediately went viral on YouTube, and one of the videos is linked to this page (see the first link below).
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Not All Like That
Practitioner:
John Shore, all Netizens
Date:
Aug 1 2013
John Shore and his wife Catherine had been attending the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego for six years when they were nominated to serve as deacons. But before they could be ordained, they were asked to sign a document agreeing that no person in a same-sex relationship should hold any position of authority within the church, which is one of the city’s oldest. It was 1990.
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The Universe in Verse
Practitioner:
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Community, Artists, writers, scientists, and musicians
Date:
Apr 28 2018
“The real wealth of the Nation,” marine biologist and author Rachel Carson wrote in her courageous 1953 protest letter, “lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot be, a matter of politics.” Carson’s legacy inspired the creation of Earth Day and the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency, whose hard-won environmental regulations are now being undone in the
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Every Month: One Week. One Film. One Global Audience.
Practitioner:
SIMA RAMA
Date:
Mar 16 2017
For the past five years, we’ve screened SIMA juried films in communities and classrooms across six continents and witnessed an increasing demand to use the inspirational force of documentary filmmaking to build a global digital community around today’s most pressing issues.
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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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Contest Backfires on Social Security Privatizer
Practitioner:
Social Security Works - WA & The Economic Opportunity Institute
Date:
Oct 18 2011
Oh, the sweet irony. Pete Peterson is the conservative billionaire who is a major financier in the effort to dismantle, cut and privatize Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Recently he and his foundation held a contest asking folks to submit videos on why it is important to “fix” the national debtof which, he and his foundation falsely claim, Social Security is a major contributor.
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Project 929: Mapping the Solar
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe
Date:
May 19 2013
Project 929: Mapping the Solar Augmented Bike Ride as Performative Intervention May 19th through 29th, 2013 http://www.project929.com<http://www.project929.com/> LINK HERE FOR LIVE STREAMING:http://project929.tumblr.com/livestreaming
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Human Syria
Practitioner:
persnal photos
Date:
Feb 7 2016
The wreckage of the Syrian city of Homs became the bittersweet backdrop for a young couple’s wedding pictures. Nada Merhi, 18, wore a traditional white gown when she married camouflage-clad Hassan Youssef, 27, on Friday. Youssef is a soldier in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army, which took Homs from rebels in November.
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Bike Church
Practitioner:
Nowness
Date:
May 18 2022
Watch Gabriel Frilando (aka CheatDeathNYC) cycle through the streets of New York City in this short film of remembrance made by NYC based, Argentinian born, director/ cinematographer Nicolás de Miranda. Speaking about this personal project Nicolás says:
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Partnership Exhibition with the Banneker-Douglass Museum and Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture
Practitioner:
Maryland Hall
Date:
Feb 27 2021
Maryland Hall, in partnership with the Banneker Douglass Museum and Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, invited Maryland-based Black artists, whose work encapsulates activism and social justice and using the creative process to educate their audiences about diversity, equity and inclusion to send proposals to take one of six 5 ft.
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Women turned Protective Wall into a memorial
Practitioner:
mexican women
Date:
Mar 8 2021
Ahead of Monday’s planned protest, police set up a barricade around the presidential palace, which a spokesperson described as a “peace wall” to prevent vandalism, the Guardian reported. But protesters said the barrier was symbolic of the president’s refusal to take on the issue, noting that he frequently makes a show of traveling in drug cartel-controlled parts of Mexico but felt unsafe ahead of their protest.
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#SB1116 The Musical!
Practitioner:
EquitablePayrollFund.org
Date:
Jun 7 2022
#SB1116 The Musical! SB 1116 establishes the Equitable Payroll Fund (EPF), which is a grant program designed to support Small Nonprofit Performing Arts Organizations (SNPAOs) – and workers directly – by providing substantial reimbursements of payroll expenses.
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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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Decolonize this Museum: Anti-Columbus Day Tour Attended by Hundreds at the American Museum of Natural History
Practitioner:
Decolonize This Place
Date:
Oct 9 2017
About: Hundreds of people came out to attend a decolonization tour of one of New York’s most popular museums. Written by Elena Goukassian on October 10, 2017
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The Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox
Practitioner:
Angelika Brewer
Date:
Feb 2 2023
The Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox is a community project that was initiated by Ogden poet, Angelika Brewer. The project involves a metal sculpture of a mailbox, which has various decorative elements such as a typewriter, a birdcage, and a heart. The mailbox serves as a platform for the public to submit their creative works such as poems, drawings, letters, or anything that can fit in an envelope.
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As the Taliban Curbs Women’s Rights, Advocates Demand Action
Practitioner:
Afghan women walk along a road in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 29, 2022.
Date:
Feb 15 2023
In December – as many around the globe were preparing for the holidays – Sama, a former attorney, remained hunkered down in her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, trying to comprehend how her world had changed.
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Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of China
Practitioner:
Siyuefeng Photography Studio
Date:
Sep 19 2014
The Breath of China is a thematic photo exhibition of thousands of air-quality images taken by 44 photographers in 34 Chinese capital cities. The exhibition was displayed on the 14th Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIPF) in Shanxi Province, from September 19th to 27th, 2014.
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Don't Cover Up, Set Up - Chinese Women Against Domestic Violence
Practitioner:
Justice4her
Date:
Jan 1 2017
The video DON’T COVER UP, STEP UP is a public service announcement raising the issue of gender-based violence. In the video, a vlogger teaches her fans how to cover up bruises with makeup after she has been beaten by her husband. There is a twist in the story as the husband enters the scene at the end of the video.
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Ghana Wins Election 2016
Practitioner:
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Rebecca Ekpe etc.
Date:
Dec 1 2016
An exercise that used drama/and audio visuals to engage with with all election partners, especially the political parties especially the political parties and their candidates/leaders, Electoral Commission, Musicians Association of Ghana, etc to push for a free, fair and peaceful Presidential and Parliamentary election and hand over of power to who ever won the elections peacefully.
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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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