Video: The German Who Came to Tea
. This award-winning film tells a story relayed by Annie Day, a 102 year-old English woman who remembers taking in two German prisoners of war for Christmas holiday at the height … Continue reading
Video: The welder-turned-poet who fell in love with words in a Glasgow shipyard
. ‘Imagine going down into the dirt to find a word that you’re going to elevate up into poetry. That’s mining for me.’ The Scottish poet Robert Fullerton is a … Continue reading
Video: Lakota in America
. Genevieve Iron Lightning is a young Lakota dancer on the Cheyenne River Reservation, one of the poorest communities in the US. Unemployment, addiction, alcoholism, and suicide are all challenges … Continue reading
Video: An Amish Man
. This short lyrical film offers a rare glimpse into modern Amish life. Originally Swiss Anabaptists, the Amish are a fellowship of Christians who live in small communities in the … Continue reading
Jon Tribble: Anubis Online
… every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye. —Joseph Campbell, … Continue reading
Video: Women of These Hills — 3 Cultures of Appalachia
. Three Appalachian women in their 80’s share their stories of growing up in the rural regions of the Appalachian mountains. Take a glimpse into their lives as they share … Continue reading
Video: Lin-Manuel Miranda performs “The Hamilton Mixtape” for Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House
. Tony Award winning writer Lin-Manuel Miranda performs “The Hamilton Mixtape,” a song narrating Alexander Hamilton‘s unlikely rise from his origins as a illegitimate son of a Caribbean prostitute … Continue reading
Video: Eleanor Ambos
. Eleanor Ambos is an unlikely tycoon. Since arriving in New York from her native Germany at age 20, she has transformed a modest interior-design business into a small empire, … Continue reading
Video: The Inner Life of the Cell
. In 2006, Harvard University teamed up with XVIVO to develop an animation that would take their cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic world of a cell. The … Continue reading
Video: Night Shift
. As dusk rolls in over Nairobi’s purple sky, two men approach a villa in one of the city’s poshest neighborhoods. One is Abraham, a young Kenyan, coming from one … Continue reading
Ian Boyden: Spider Field
for the Dalai Lama on his 82nd birthday First leg I awoke to an island held by cloud a meadow held by mist that had returned to admire something it … Continue reading
Operatico Politico: Rock Opera vs. Trump – Queen Edition — “Alternative Rhapsody”
. Is this the real life? Did he just post that Tweet? Well, it’s been exactly one year since Donald Trump was ‘elected’. To mark the occasion, Operatico Politico’s … Continue reading
Operatico Politico: Rock Opera vs. Trump (Queen Edition)
. Well, it’s been exactly one year since Donald Trump was ‘elected’. To mark the occasion, Operatico Politico‘s new installment of satire is here! This time, we tackle an a capella version … Continue reading
Video: What a White Savior is and Why it’s a Problem
. The white savior is a literary and cinematic trope portraying a white character rescuing people of color from their plight. Critics have observed this narrative in an array of … Continue reading
