Video: When We Were Knights
. How can you express everything that you want to somebody you love, knowing that if you don’t, that might be the last opportunity that you have? That is a … Continue reading
Video: A Night at the Garden
. What would American fascism look like? A 1939 New York rally offered more than a hint ‘We, with American ideals, demand that our government shall be returned to the … Continue reading
Video: Stop Telling Women to Smile
. Stop Telling Women to Smile is an art series by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh which attempts to address gender-based street harassment by placing in public spaces drawings of women with captions … Continue reading
Video: Bessie Smith, “St. Louis Blues”
. Josh Jones writing for Open Culture says of this scene: Released in 1929, the “flawed, but absolutely essential” film St. Louis Blues frames Bessie Smith’s character through the lyrics … Continue reading
Video: Amid crime and blight, Natalie Thomas plants peace and community
. Since 2011, Natalie Thomas has been the caretaker of the Unified Positive Effect Community Garden at the corner of Climax Street and Estella Avenue in the Beltzhoover neighborhood of … Continue reading
Video: Breath
. A film about the invisible life-force. Breathing is at the essence of being human, but not just because it keeps us alive. Like laughter and facial expressions, breathing is … Continue reading
Marsha Gordon: Blade Runner’s chillingly prescient vision of the future
Can corporations become so powerful that they dictate the way we feel? Can machines get mad – like, really mad – at their makers? Can people learn to love machines? … Continue reading
Video: Blade Runner — Nexus 2036 (new short film)
. Here is the premiere of a Blade Runner 2049 prequel short film “in-world” piece that explains what happened in the world of Blade Runner between the first movie, set … Continue reading
Joan E. Bauer: Manzanar
Manzanar for Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of Farewell to Manzanar The word, Spanish for apple orchard but by 1942, no orchards in the Owens Valley. Water … Continue reading
Sarah Browning: Titian’s San Christoforo
Ducal Palace, Venice, 1523 The saint’s massive muscled arms – arms for the forge, for fighting, for tending and laboring – reach toward heaven, toward the baby god on … Continue reading
Video: Perfectly Normal
. About award-winning short film Perfectly Normal, director Joris Debeij says: I was introduced to Jordan, the effervescent subject of this Op-Doc, by a mutual friend; we met for lunch … Continue reading
Video: Monument/Monumento
. At Friendship Park, a unique meeting place along the US–Mexico border, family members and loved ones from both countries can see and speak to each other through a meshed … Continue reading
Video: The Story of Zero
. This short animated video produced by the Royal Institution of Great Britain illustrates the history of the mathematical concept of zero. Today, zero signifies an absence of value as … Continue reading
Video: Rolling on the Floor Laughing
. In this short film directed by Russell Harbaugh, two grown brothers return home for their widowed mother’s birthday, only to find themselves competing with a strange man for her affection. … Continue reading
