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Everyday Utopias
Everyday Utopias are two video documentations from The Wonder of Learning: Hundred Languages of Children exhibition, They describe a day in an infant-toddler center and a day in a preschool, the everyday-ness of being together, a special care for the environment, and the idea that the infant-toddler center and preschools are places in which culture is created.
learning  education  reggioemilia  thirdteacher  teaching  schools  documentary  tcsnmy 
20 days ago by robertogreco
Fabricados para no durar (Comprar, tirar, comprar) SUB - YouTube
"Baterías que se 'mueren' a los 18 meses de ser estrenadas, impresoras que se bloquean al llegar a un número determinado de impresiones, bombillas que se funden a las mil horas... ¿Por qué, pese a los avances tecnológicos, los productos de consumo duran cada vez menos? ¿Quieres saber dónde terminan?"

"Comprar, tirar, comprar"; un documental que nos revela el secreto: obsolescencia programada, el motor de la economía moderna. Rodado en España, Francia, Alemania, Estados Unidos y Ghana hace un recorrido por la historia de una práctica empresarial que consiste en la reducción deliberada de la vida de un producto para incrementar su consumo porque, como ya publicaba en 1928 una influyente revista de publicidad norteamericana, "un artículo que no se desgasta es una tragedia para los negocios".
economics  capitalism  technology  via:litherland  documentary  plannedobsolescence  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now on Vimeo
"Released to coincide with the Fall 2011 issue of VQR, Maisie Crow's original short film introduces us to the city of Slavutych and its residents—survivors of the Chernobyl disaster and the workers still dismantling the plant."
slavutych  maisiecrow  memory  place  placeandmemory  documentary  2011  chernobyl  from delicious
10 weeks ago by robertogreco
NFB/Interactive - Bear 71
[an interactive film about grizzly bears from the National Film Board of Canada]

"It's hard to say where the wild world ends and the wild one begins."

"The forest has its own language."

"If you look backward from any single point in time, everything seems to lead up to that moment."

"They'll have to learn *not* to do what comes naturally, and I wonder. Maybe the lesson is too hard."
deschooling  unschooling  parenting  flash  video  film  2012  tracking  visualization  classideas  storytelling  interactivenarratives  nationalfilmboardofcanada  nfb  bear71  bears  nature  animals  documentary  interactive  cyoa  interactivefiction 
february 2012 by robertogreco
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
"There's no place like home. It's where we live, work and dream. It's our sanctuary and our refuge. We can love them or hate them. It can be just for the night or for the rest of our lives. But whoever we may be, we all have a place we call home.

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is a series of short films that explore the idea of home; what makes them, how they represent us, why we need them.

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE is produced and directed by Ben Wu and David Usui, of Lost & Found Films."
place  refuge  sanctuary  wherewework  wherewelive  workplace  homes  thismustbetheplace  films  documentary  home  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
REALRURAL
"Ever since Americans have had to define what “rural” means, they have done so simply by saying what it is not. In common usage, rural is any place not populous, not developed, not easily reached by an interstate. Our national authority on demographics, the U.S. Census Bureau, classifies it merely as a remainder: “‘Rural’ encompasses all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area.” That’s it.

And yet, anyone who has ever left the highway in the Golden State knows that rural California is a place far too diverse to lump into the category “other.” From Modoc County to Raisin City, from the Carissa Plains to the Coachella Valley, the experience is in fact one of diversity and depth. The stories here are about rural California as a world unto itself—not a list of the things it is not, but an exploration of the things that it is."
stories  rural  documentary  photography  california  lisahamilton  via:javierarbona  realrural  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
'The Great Wall of Los Angeles,' a Documentary by Donna Deitch | Arts | Land of Sunshine | KCET
"Since 1978, the mini-documentary "The Great Wall of Los Angeles," directed by Social Public Art and Resource Center co-founder and filmmaker Donna Deitch, has been used as a calling card. It's screened to introduce SPARC's mission to new staff members, UCLA students beginning their studies at SPARC's Digital Mural Lab, and guests interested in the work of the public art institution.

In a tidy 12 minutes and 22 seconds, this early work by Deitch exemplifies two important SPARC processes: engaging youth in art and creating community-based work that becomes part of public memory and landscape."
teens  youth  history  murals  1978  art  losangeles  documentary 
january 2012 by robertogreco
GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY
"…early 1980s, an entire industry rose over telling of tales, solving of intricate puzzles & art of writing. Like living books, these games described fantastic worlds to readers, & then invited them to live w/in them.

They were called "computer adventure games", & they used the most powerful graphics processor in the world: the human mind.

Rising from side projects at unis & engineering companies, adventure games would describe a place, & then ask what to do next. They presented puzzles, tricks & traps to be overcome. They were filled w/ suspense, humor & sadness. & they offered a unique type of joy as players discovered how to negotiate obstacles & think their way to victory. These players have carried memories of these text adventures to the modern day, & whole new generation of authors have taken up torch to present new set of places to explore.

Get Lamp is a documentary that will tell the story of the creation of these incredible games, in the words of the people who made them."
cyoa  computers  computing  getlamp  classideas  storytelling  writing  towatch  if  interactivefiction  documentary  history  gaming  text  games  edg  srg  via:litherland  interactive  fiction 
january 2012 by robertogreco
Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter - Watch the Full Documentary Film | American Masters | PBS
"From 1941 to 1978, this husband-and-wife team brought unique talents to their partnership. He was an architect by training, she was a painter and sculptor. Together they are considered America’s most important and influential designers, whose work helped, literally, shape the second half of the 20th century and remains culturally vital and commercially popular today. They are, perhaps, best remembered for their mid-century modern furniture, built from novel materials like molded plywood, fiberglass-reinforced plastic, bent metal wire and aluminum – offering consumers beautiful, functional, yet inexpensive products. Revered for their designs and fascinating as individuals, Charles and Ray have risen to iconic status in American culture. But their influence on significant events and movements in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Charles and Ray Eames are now profiled as part of American Masters."
design  inspiration  pbs  film  furniture  architecture  glvo  california  history  2011  documentary  eames  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
The Human Motor - YouTube
"The Human Motor: A Documentary on the San Francisco Critical Mass Bike Ride, created by Ellie Vanderlip, 2011"
via:javierarbona  carculture  cars  activism  transportation  biking  bikes  toshare  studentfilms  documentary  2011  history  sanfrancisco  criticalmass  ellievanderlip  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Patricio Guzmán’s ‘Nostalgia for the Light’ to Open - NYTimes.com
"What finally enabled Mr. Guzmán to make “Nostalgia for the Light,” which opens on Friday at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village, was his realization that the subjects he wanted to address did have a point in common: the preservation of memory. The women who comb the desert looking for the remains of loved ones who disappeared under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet share that trait with the archaeologists and geologists who work in the shadow of the astronomical observatories that dot the Atacama, drawn by its clear skies.

Remembrance has, of course, also been the main theme of Mr. Guzmán’s own body of work, which has been primarily political. But his best-known film, the three-part, four-and-a-half-hour “Battle of Chile,” has come to be regarded as something more than just the record of a particular historical moment."
light  nostalgiadelaluz  nostalgiaforthelight  history  remembrance  salvadorallende  chile  archaeology  geology  pinochet  patricioguzmán  astronomy  memory  documentary  film  2011  atacama  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Nostalgia for the Light / Trailer - YouTube
"Nostalgia for the Light takes place 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, "disappeared" by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973."

[See also: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1556190/combined ]
nostalgiaforlight  science  astronomy  space  2011  atacama  patricioguzmán  chile  documentary  film  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
FOLLOWING SEAN - official website
"Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood at the height of the 1960s.

The city was awash with the trappings of America's cultural revolution-the San Francisco State University campus flooded with cops in riot gear, the Haight filled with drifters and idealists, and, on the third floor of Arlyck's building, a come-one-come-all crashpad apartment. It was from this top floor commune that the precocious 4-year-old Sean would occasionally wander downstairs to visit and talk-and one day Arlyck turned on his camera‌

Thirty years, three generations, and a lifetime later, Arlyck has returned to San Francisco in search of who the adult Sean might have become‌"
economics  philosophy  cities  thechildinthecity  children  via:litherland  hippies  sanfrancisco  california  documentary  film  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
I am Eleven -
"I AM ELEVEN is a globe-spanning portrait of humanity at a crucial age – no longer children, not quite adults, preparing to inherit a world changing as quickly and dramatically as they are. This documentary focuses on a series of eleven-year-olds from 15 countries, each speaking in their own words and revealing the private obsessions and public concerns that animate their lives. It is simultaneously an epic survey of the similarities and distinctions between cultures and an intimate account of these young personalities finding their way in the world today."
documentary  children  iameleven  classideas  genevievebailey  towatch  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Life In A Day - YouTube
"Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator) team up to offer this candid snapshot of a single day on planet Earth. Compiled from over 80,000 YouTube submissions by contributors in 192 countries, Life in a Day presents a microcosmic view of our daily experiences as a global society. From the mundane to the profound, everything has its place as we spend 90 minutes gaining greater insight into the lives of people who may be more like us than we ever suspected, despite the fact that we're separated by incredible distances."
documentary  ridleyscott  lifeinaday  earth  classideas  humans  film  2011  towatch  society  nature  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
How To Start A Revolution | a film by Ruaridh Arrow
"Half a world away from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. His name is Gene Sharp. White-haired and now in his mid-eighties, he grows orchids, he has yet to master the internet and he hardly seems like a dangerous man. But for the world’s dictators his ideas can be the catalyst for the end of their regime.

Few people outside the world of academia have ever heard his name, but his writings on nonviolent revolution (most notably ‘From Dictatorship to Democracy’, a 93-page, 198-step guide to toppling dictators, available free for download in 40 languages) have inspired a new generation of protesters living under authoritarian regimes who yearn for democratic freedom."
genesharp  revolution  nonviolence  documentary  activism  film  2011  politics  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
SAFFRON // 2 mins on Vimeo
"A documentary about the intersection of street art, politics, and human rights in Burma . With Shepard Fairey and Aung San Suu Kyi. 90 mins Dir. Jeffrey Durkin"

[Trailer (and film) has footage from the mural that we saw go up around the corner. Also here: http://vimeo.com/28177120 ]
sandiego  southpark  breadtruckfilms  shepardfairey  streetart  2011  2012  2010  documentary  saffron  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
blackoystercatcher: Taking history back from the "storytellers"
"Some of the most interesting documentary films take their structures from organic phenomena like the hours of the day, or the trajectory of a river from source to mouth. Others are essays that follow a structured thought process. Still others divide into sequences or parts that need to be understood and compared as discrete units for the film to generate meaning in the viewer. In fact, there are nearly infinite possible documentary structures, of which I think we've only seen a small fraction. By contrast, the mainstream documentary focuses on what's now called "storytelling," a highly traditional representational strategy…<br />
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Of course, there's nothing wrong with storytelling, whatever it may be, and not all stories are bad. What's wrong is the assumption, which has become not only pervasive but compulsory, that documentaries need characters, that the narrative arc must reign supreme, and that we're obliged to show people wrestling with and resolving problems."
storytelling  history  culture  documentary  stories  film  rickprelinger  2009  filmmaking  structure  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
We have to call it school « Sesat Blog [See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcHsKBkhN4 ]
"A film by Peggy Hughes about Ny Lille Skole, in the 1970s. From Teach Your Own by John Holt:<br />
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"…over the titles one of the teachers says “We have to call it school. The law in Denmark says that children have to go to school, and if we didn’t call this a school, they couldn’t come here.” But it is not a school in any way that we understand those words. It is a meeting, living, and doing place for six or seven adults and about eighty children, aged about six through fourteen. It s more like a club than anything I can compare it to. The children come there when they feel like it, most of the time during the winter, not so often when spring and the sun arrive. Once there, they talk about and do many things that interest them, sometimes with the adults, sometimes by themselves. In the process, they learn a lot about themselves, each other and the world."<br />
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A good contrast to this, from the same era in Danish education, is the book Borderlines by Peter Hoeg."
peggyhughes  unschooling  deschooling  johnholt  caterinafake  nylilleskole  teachyourown  education  learning  perterhoeg  books  children  schools  schooliness  society  1970s  denmark  documentary  wehavetocallitschool  BagsvægdNyLilleskole  copenhagen  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
PROBLEMA the film
"Who are we in the 21st Century?<br />
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A cinematic interpretation of the world's largest round table gathering, PROBLEMA is a visually imaginative, thought-provoking invitation to a world of global dilemmas. Spanning seventeen questions confronting who we are and where we're going, the film follows the insights, perceptions, reflections and views of over 100 people from more than 50 nations sat together in one circle.<br />
A not-for-profit production, PROBLEMA is freely available to watch and to download via this website. If you'd like to support the film, we encourage you to host a screening, to sign our guestbook or to consider making a micro-donation to help further its human connection."
film  activism  classideas  capitalism  documentary  thinking  dilemmas  problemsolving  criticalthinking  teaching  global  philosophy  2011  via:cervus  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Chile, los héroes están fatigados [See also: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388834/ AND Also in parts on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eFrZbBXhDc AND http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Enr%C3%ADquez ]
"Hijo de una de las figuras claves de la Unidad Popular, el cineasta Marco Enríquez sale a la calle decidido a pasar revista a la evolución de los compañeros de ruta de su padre. ¿Cómo fue que antiguos veteranos de la lucha popular y el socialismo terminaron asesorando multinacionales y coordinando empresas en el corazón de la cultura neoliberal? A través de entrevistas y vagabundeos callejeros, Enríquez va exponiendo su tesis: el desgaste de los viejos estandartes, el recambio cruel de una ideología por otra. Amargo, pero a la vez muy divertido -Enríquez no tiene pudor en reírse, por ejemplo, de esas circulares e inútiles discusiones políticas de sobremesa- este documental es un vaso de refrescante agua fría entre tanto megafilme pomposo. Toda una curiosidad en su género."

[Interviewed: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Brunnerhttp://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Guillermo_Garret%C3%B3n + Carlos Ominami (see Wikipedia)]
meo  marcoenríquesominami  politics  chile  documentary  film  history  left  josébrunner  óscargarretón  enriquecorrea  ricardolagos  lagos  socialists  carlosominami 
august 2011 by robertogreco
U B U W E B : Jorge Luis Borges
"Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the life and literary career of the charismatic Argentine writer, as well as the thematic, symbolic, and mythological underpinnings of his works. Archival interviews with Borges; his mother, Leonor Acevedo de Borges; his second wife, Maria Kodama; and collaborator Adolfo Bioy Casares provide insights into the private Borges, while readings from “The Mirrors,” “Dreamtigers,” “The Plot,” “The South,” “The Aleph,” and other landmarks of Latin American fiction demonstrate his virtuosity as a transformer of experiences."
borges  film  ubuweb  adolfobioycásares  maríakodama  documentary  towatch  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
BorDocs '11
"…un espacio pionero en México en el campo de la educación y exhibición especializada en formas emergentes del cine y video agrupadas generalmente bajo el término documental.<br />
…El Foro es…un sitio de encuentro entre jóvenes cineastas, productores, académicos y especialistas en la no ficción. Bordocs es también una oportunidad para degustar de los más destacado documentales y conocer las tendencias en el área.<br />
El documental ha retomado su papel protagónico como una vía multifacética y vanguardista para contar historias, abordar temas de denuncia social o para emitir discursos reflexivos, personales a partir de formas interactivas o hibridas. En los últimos años el documental goza de un auge internacional y se ha convertido en el núcleo donde convergen múltiples disciplinas artísticas y educativas. Bordocs Foro Documental aporta en la frontera Tijuana-San Diego un granito de arena y propone un lugar común para la formación y el disfrute del este cine que nos mira."
togo  tijuana  2011  adrianatrujillo  joséinerzia  itzelmartínezdelcañizo  documentary  classideas  film  bordocs  nonfiction  education  toshare  billnichols  danielaalatorre  everardogonzález  joséluisfigueroalewis  robertocanales  danielrosas  claudiorocha  joepmaríacatalà  jenniferfox  sergiodelatorre  anapaolarodríguezespaña  borders  mexico  sandiego  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Advanced Style: Age and Beauty - NOWNESS
"We're having a senior moment: From textile mogul Iris Apfel in her trademark owl spectacles to artist Ilona Royce Smithkin in DIY orange eyelashes, the stars of photographer Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style blog represent the most fashionable older ladies and gentlemen of New York and beyond. Today on NOWNESS we feature Cohen’s iconic style mavens in an exclusive short by filmmaker Lina Plioplyte. “Hearing them speak about clothing is so fascinating,” says Cohen, who launched his site in 2008 and also has a documentary in the works. “There is history and memories in what they are wearing and I think it’s important to show that storytelling aspect, as well as their vitality and creativity.” Cohen spoke to NOWNESS about silver-haired confidence."
documentary  film  fashion  elderly  age  expression  via:kottke  style  beauty  art  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
a reGeneration (a unique documentary from leave it better) by Graham Meriwether — Kickstarter
"All across the world, youth are beginning to take action. <br />
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Kids are building gardens, sharing stories, inspiring friends and family to change the way we relate to our food, to our community and ultimately, to our planet. <br />
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Our unique documentary project provides children with gardening supplies and cameras, and allows them to share the story as they learn to compost, plant seeds and ultimately harvest food they've grown themselves. <br />
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Throughout the project, footage will be shared on Leave It Better, so you can follow the incredibly inspiring youth who are the stars and co-directors of our documentary. <br />
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Starting in New York City, we will see the story grow organically as kids share stories with other youth gardeners in other states, countries, and continents.  <br />
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In the 2010-2011 school year, our pilot/research year, we've given gardens and cameras to 10 schools in New York…"
film  activism  food  green  documentary  via:alexpappas  children  kickstarter  gardening  gardens  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The Bully Project
"The Bully Project, a year in the life of America's bullying crisis<br />
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The Film is coming.......The Bully Project film is a new feature-length documentary that follows "a year in the life" of America's bullying crisis, and offers an intimate look at how bullying has touched the lives of five kids and their families. About the Film<br />
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The Movement is spreading.......With the film at its center, The Bully Project is a grassroots movement to educate and empower kids, parents, teachers and all school staff, to build stronger communities where empathy and respect rule. We are building an alliance to turn the tide on bullying. Are you with us?"
education  children  bullying  film  activism  behavior  documentary  schools  classideas  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Real Japan pilot on Vimeo
"Real Japan is a pilot demo for an upcoming documentary series about Japan, and the Japanese people.<br />
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Anyone who knows Japan even a little will have visited Tokyo, or the temples in Kyoto, but what about the rest of the country? They very rarely get a mention, but we think it's the people and places off the regular route where Japan's real treasures are to be found.<br />
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For the pilot, we went to Shodoshima, a small island in the Inland Sea in central Japan, to visit a 200-year-old kabuki theatre, traditional soy-sauce and noodle factories, and Xerom, where they make minute, cutting-edge components for your camera or smartphone. And we stayed with the delightful Sasaki family, who have farmed on the island for generations.<br />
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The plan is to travel across Japan to meet more wonderful, ordinary people all over the country, and learn about their work and their everyday lives…"
japan  television  documentary  travel  culture  work  life  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
winesburg, ohio - Jesse Bernstein was a writer, performance artist,...
"Jesse Bernstein was a writer, performance artist, genuine wacko, and “highly provocative underground celebrity,” who is renowned for his spoken word recordings (released with Sub Pop), and widely glamorized for his rampant drug use, mental illness, and (natch) close personal relationship with William S. Burroughs.<br />
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I Am Secretly An Important Man is a documentary about his life, directed by Pete Sillen. The film traces the evolution of his influence on popular culture, but never falters in keeping an inquisitive, steady eye on the nature of its troubled protagonist: “…he was not only inventing colorful background for himself, but I think he was trying out different storylines.” This looks lovely, can’t wait for it."
jessebernstein  williamsburroughs  petesillens  documentary  underground  spokenword  mentalillness  popculture  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education on Vimeo [More resources in the remainder of the video caption]
"…70 minute documentary that offers a “fly on the wall” perspective of the daily happenings at The Free School in Albany…<br />
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…is unique in that it transcends obstacles that prevent similar schools from reaching a economically and racially diverse range of students and operates in the heart of an inner-city neighborhood.<br />
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For over 30 years in perhaps the most radical experiment in American education, this small inner-city alternative school has offered its students complete freedom over their learning. There are no mandatory classes, no grades, tests, or homework, & rules are generally avoided. As a last resort, rules are created democratically by students and teachers, often at the prompting of a student. At a time when our educators are mandated to march forward with no child left behind, students of the Free School, many of whom would have fallen through the cracks of today’s failing public school system, have managed to slip out of education’s back door & have run away free."
freeschools  albanyfreeschool  documentary  education  unschooling  deschooling  jeffroot  bhawinsuchak  lcproject  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
WASTE LAND
"Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit."
art  urban  video  environment  film  documentary  vikmuniz  artists  ncmsd  glvo  towatch  riodejaneiro  brasil  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Breaking A Habit: Sister Corita - NOWNESS
"Aaron Rose's Documentary On the Nun Who Stormed the Art World<br />
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If The Sound of Music and Sister Act taught us anything, it was that Catholic nuns are expected to pray and sing, in that order. But the story of Sister Mary Corita Kent rewrites that script. A teacher at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1968, Sister Corita was a Pop Art pioneer. Her silkscreen prints created an arresting new visual language for spirituality in the early 60s, praising the Almighty by co-opting typograpy, advertising slogans and the bright colors of billboards and local streets. Though she would often work in collaboration with her students—who she encouraged to mount group exhibitions such as 1965’s decidedly anti-Vietnam Christmas show, "Peace On Earth"—she would spend each August creating her own art work…"<br />
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[Posted here: http://tcsnmy7.tumblr.com/post/3643416683/breaking-a-habit-sister-corita ]
sistercorita  teaching  art  immaculateheartcollege  immaculateheartcommunity  aaronrose  documentary  learning  noticing  seeing  observation  eames  design  tcsnmy7  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
LOVE STORY - ON VIDEO, WINTER 2004 on Vimeo
"Few skate spots on earth can claim the notoriety of philadelphia's love park. its location and design have made it the focal point of east-coast skateboarding. for the first time, ricky oyola, stevie williams, josh kalis, kerry getz, tim o'connor, and a host of local notables tell the tale of this legendary landmark."
urban  documentary  skateboarding  philadelphia  parks  skating  lovepark  2004  classideas  meaning  meaningmaking  history  rickyoyola  steviewilliams  joshkalis  kerrygetz  timo'connor  cities  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - DEBTOCRACY (FULL - ENG Subs)
"For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. "Debtocracy" seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media."
2011  greece  debt  finance  banking  imf  worldbank  odiousdebt  politics  economics  argentina  ecuador  eu  ecb  sovereignty  freedom  europe  olympics  arms  class  classwarfare  social  democracy  government  policy  corruption  goldmansachs  crisis  financialcrisis  healthcare  poverty  education  documentary  globalization  neoliberalism  theft  via:steelemaley 
june 2011 by robertogreco
Curtis gets Curtised | Abject [This is good.]
"I’m only one-third through Adam Curtis’s latest film, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, and as usual I am hooked in and provoked by his work. But as with his previous films, there is a certain something about how Curtis constructs his arguments… The way he picks out a distinct element or personal value and makes it the core value that explains EVERYTHING. Don’t get me wrong, I would describe The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares, and The Trap as essential viewing, and since his films are readily available online I hope lots of people watch them. He’s also a brilliant blogger.

But I can’t ignore that something feels off for me in his rhetorical concatenations… and this slick parody helps me to understand what that something is:"

[This video embedded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg ]
adamcurtis  satire  style  documentary  allwathedoverbymachinesoflovinggrace  via:leighblackall  bbc  2011  video  collagevideo  collage 
june 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - Episode 1_ EXTRACTION: San Diego Art World Insiders
"Inspired by the open framework of the Agitprop project, Extraction: SDAWI (the reality show/art project) aims to promote integration, open dialogue, and cross pollination between some of the many diverse groups of artists and art organizations in the San Diego/Tijuana area.<br />
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In Episode One, Executive Director of the San Diego Fine Art Society, April Game, will be taken to the Voz Alta Project gallery space in Barrio Logan to see the work of artists from Studio 767, a tattoo studio in the Chula Vista neighborhood."
agitprop  sandiego  art  tijuana  documentary  chulavista  sandiegofineartsociety  vozaltaproject  barriologan  studio767  tattoos  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
49 Classics of Mid-Century Design We Need Your Help Identifying - Alexis Madrigal - Life - The Atlantic
"Collectors covet mid-century design for a reason: The clean lines and bright colors of the 1950s are beautiful. But there was more to the era's design considerations. The burst of creative energy that followed World War II spurred consumption by creating an endless array of new products, and when those were in short supply, new forms (and colors) for old products. The production of beauty was placed in the service of consumerism and anti-communism.<br />
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American Look showcases this design-industrial complex of ideas in beautiful Technicolor. Created in 1958 by the Jam Handy Organization, a large commercial filmmaking concern, with funding from Chevrolet, the 23-minute film surveys the landscape of late-50s aspirational life from interior dining sets to new work machines to speed boats. Taken together, the objects in the film paint a portrait of the variety of things that only American capitalism could deliver."
design  video  film  documentary  alexismadrigal  modernism  furniture  industrialdesign  2011  consumerism  us  mid-centurymodern  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
We are Sixteen.
"Sixteen is a class that asks what it means to be 16 around the world." [See also the resource page: http://thesixteenproject.wordpress.com/class-resources/ ]
via:tcarmody  anthropology  comingofage  16  sixteen  teaching  schools  classideas  gender  global  video  documentary 
june 2011 by robertogreco
Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance by Alanis Obomsawin - NFB
"On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight. Director Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. This powerful documentary takes you right into the action of an age-old Aboriginal struggle. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades."
education  politics  history  documentary  1990  mohawks  Quebec  canada  oka  indigenous  via:steelemaley  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Network Society as ‘high decadence’ | Beyond The Beyond
"*Now that we’ve actually got a network society, we’re gonna see a lot of harrowing-critical-reassessment material of this kind. Mostly because we’re not happier for it and the general situation stinks.<br />
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*Nicholas Carr, Jaron Lanier, Andrew Keen, these guys were like the first robins in spring. Note that this kind of criticism is NOT the same as those who opposed digitalization in the first place; this isn’t Luddism, it’s retrospective in tone. “Look what has been lost. We don’t think the same, our capacity to act is diminished, we are reduced to components and gadgets, those in power over us lack accountability,” etc etc. In Gothic High-Tech, awe at the sublime power of Moore’s Law machinery is replaced by a perception that public life is febrile, rotten, fraudulent and decadent."
networksociety  web  brucesterling  internet  adamcurtis  allwathedoverbymachinesoflovinggrace  documentary  jaronlanier  nicholascarr  andrewkeen  luddism  gothichightech  society  technology  culture  politics  hierarchy  networks  networkculture  well-being  machineslavery  machines  ideology  systems  systemsthinking  social  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Three Philosophers in Three Hours | Open Culture
"“Human, All Too Human” is a three-hour BBC series from 1999, about the lives and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The filmmakers focus heavily on politics and historical context — the Heidegger hour, for example, focuses almost exclusively on his troubling relationship with Nazism.<br />
The most engaging chapter is “Jean-Paul Sartre: The Road to Freedom,” in part because the filmmakers had so much archival footage and interview material (Check out a still lovely Simone de Bouvoir at minute 9:00, giggling that Sartre was the ugliest, dirtiest, most unshaven student at the Sorbonne).<br />
A note on Part 2: Thinking the Unthinkable. We linked to the YouTube version, which has a slight whistle in the background. Catch a cleaner version here on Google Video while you still can."
culture  philosophy  video  towatch  jean-paulsartre  sartre  heidegger  nietzsche  via:javierarbona  simonedebouvoir  documentary  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - First Orbit - the movie
"A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin's original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard. For more information visit http://www.firstorbit.org "
yurisnight  yurigagarin  space  spaceexploration  spacetravel  history  documentary  realtime  recreation  2011  firstorbit  ussr  russia  spacerace  audio  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - Jonathan Harris : Today
"When Jonathan Harris ( http://number27.org ) turned 30, he began a simple ritual of taking one photo a day and posting it to his website before going to sleep, along with a short story. He called this project, 'Today'.<br />
This is a short film about Jonathan's project, made a few weeks after he stopped it, by his friend, Scott Thrift: http://mssngpeces.com<br />
Jonathan's 'Today' project is viewable here:http://number27.org/today.php?age=30 "
storytelling  jonathanharris  memory  photography  time  life  documentary  2011  today  aging  classideas  experience  sensemaking  privacy  space  growth  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Telling Their Stories
"High school students at the Urban School of San Francisco conduct and film interviews with Bay Area Holocaust survivors in their homes. Students then transcribe each 2-plus hour interview, create hundreds of movie files associated with each transcript, and then post the full-text, full-video interviews on this public website as a service to a world-wide audience interested in Holocaust studies. See Project Descriptions for a more detailed overview of the course and project.<br />
This is an ongoing, ever-changing, & constantly evolving project involving dozens of students, teachers, & community volunteers. The majority of efforts thus far have been applied to the actual interview process as well as posting interviews on this website… Our current strategy here is to simply provide information on our model."
digitalstorytelling  storytelling  oralhistory  classideas  socialstudies  history  urbanschool  sanfrancisco  tcsnmy  projectideas  film  documentary  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
For the Love of the Leader | DocumentaryStorm - Stream Full Documentaries
"This is the story of an extraordinary love affair between one Nation’s women and its leader.<br />
<br />
The Nation is Libya, an Islamic socialist state.<br />
<br />
Its leader, Muammar Gaddafi, a man reviled in the west as a brutal dictator, but in Libya “held up as a great revolutionary, and the liberator of islamic women.” For Libyan women; what does this liberation mean? And what price do they pay for the love of their leader?<br />
<br />
For the Love of the Leader focus on the female bodyguards in Libya who protect the “Mad Dog” of Tripoli, Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi.<br />
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Gaddafi has reigned supreme in Libya for 42 years. but after month long tensions, Western countries have started to deploy their military forces into Libya and have launched a full scale attack. An investigation of this documentary might give us a glimpse into a Libyan lifestyle, or give a taste of propoganda fueled over years of indoctrination."
gaddafi  libya  documentary  amazonianguard  2011  bodyguards  women  gender  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
U B U W E B - Film & Video: Buckminster Fuller - The World of R. Buckminster Fuller (1974)
"Buckminster Fuller was an architect, engineer, geometrician, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. His legacy becomes ever more relevant, providing us a road map to steer our planet away from oblivion and toward a sustainable future for all humanity. <br />
<br />
This film by Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Snyder, like his other documentaries on "the greats" (Michelangelo, Henry Miller, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Casals, among others), transports the viewer into Fuller's mind and soul. Told entirely in his own words, the film is an intimate, personal and inspiring message from Fuller to our fragile world."
culture  film  documentary  buckminsterfuller  robertsnyder  humanity  humanism  sustainability  towatch  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Philip-Lorca diCorcia - Wikipedia
"DiCorcia alternates between informal snapshots and iconic quality staged compositions that often have a baroque theatricality.<br />
<br />
Using a carefully planned staging, he takes everyday occurrences beyond the realm of banality, trying to inspire in his picture's spectators an awareness of the psychology and emotion contained in real-life situations. His work could be described as documentary photography mixed with the fictional world of cinema and advertising, which creates a powerful link between reality, fantasy and desire."
photography  art  lighting  philip-lorcadicorcia  cinema  documentary  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Flavorwire » The First Real David Foster Wallace Documentary
"In the first big DFW documentary since his suicide…Geoff Ward discusses the author’s childhood, legacy, preoccupations and battles with the gentleness of a true fan but the exactitude of a scholar. On the radio missive, which first aired on the BBC on February 6, Ward interviews Wallace’s contemporaries, Don DeLillo, Michael Pietsch, editor of Infinite Jest, Wallace’s agent, Bonnie Nadell & his sister, Amy Wallace. He also mines archives of interviews w/ DFW — some of the most wonderful are with Wallace discussing irony —  & accents his ruminations & conversations w/ passages from Infinite Jest as well as the forthcoming The Pale King.<br />
<br />
If you’re a reader, a writer or even just a member of the television saturation generation, it’s worth a listen, & if you’re a fan of Wallace, the program may tug at your heartstrings, suggesting what might have been, but celebrating the man as he was…DeLillo: “I can’t think of anyone quite like him, at all…Wallace stands alone.”
davidfosterwallace  books  writing  biography  bbc  documentary  thepaleking  infinitejest  2011  markcostello  dondelillo  geoffward  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
"At Salt, we train aspiring writers, radio producers, and photographers in the art of documentary storytelling — creating thought-provoking, richly worded stories. In the process, our students struggle to find their own voice, learn to sit comfortably with discomfort, and to ask hard questions not only of their subjects, but also of themselves. We encourage students to value and pursue truth, using journalistic skills and ethics to produce powerful, fair-minded, technically astute documentary work."
documentary  radio  education  photography  salt  portland  maine  schools  writing  journalism  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
the Economics of Happiness | Home
"The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization." [via: http://steelemaley.posterous.com/placticity-global-movements-and-bioregion-cha ]
economics  happiness  sustainability  documentary  film  local  environment  2011  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Schooling the World | The White Man's Last Burden [Trailer: http://vimeo.com/14344025]
"If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it?

You would change the way it educates its children.

The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a "better" life for indigenous children.

But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's way of learning and understanding the world with our own? Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world's last sustainable indigenous cultures.

"Generations from now, we'll look back and say, 'How could we have done this kind of thing to people?'""

[via: http://steelemaley.posterous.com/placticity-global-movements-and-bioregion-cha ]
education  unschooling  deschooling  colonialism  imperialism  westernworld  westernschools  schooling  schools  us  global  documentary  film  reform  wealth  prosperity  sustainability  2011  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth – a Documentary
"It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between?<br />
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.<br />
At the film’s historical center is an analysis of the massive impact of the national urban renewal program of the 1950s and 1960s, which prompted the process of mass suburbanization and emptied American cities of their residents, businesses, and industries.<br />
Those left behind in the city faced a destitute, rapidly de-industrializing St. Louis , parceled out to downtown interests and increasingly segregated by class and race."
documentary  architecture  housing  publichousing  urban  urbanism  urbanplanning  history  stlouis  pruitt-igoe  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Joy of Stats
"Documentary which takes viewers on a rollercoaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power thay have to change our understanding of the world, presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening, mind-expanding and funny online lectures have made him an international internet legend."
statistics  documentary  film  classideas  math  mathematics  hansrosling  history  influence  power  understanding  patternrecognition  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Here's Why the Banksy Movie Is a Banksy Prank | Fast Company
"As a straight documentary, this film is a snoozefest, an artist's love note to himself written in spray paint on a public wall. But Banksy isn't quite a straight-ahead kind of artist. He's a character based on surprise and coyness, someone whose work catches us where we least expect it, hours after he's fled the scene. And as another of his ruses, Exit Through the Gift Shop is as fun and well-conceived as the Banksy persona itself."
banksy  film  art  graffiti  documentary  prankumentary  shepardfairey  streetart  exitthroughthegiftshop  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
James Burke's Connections online
"Every episode of the classic science/history series Connections (as well as Connections 2 and 3) is available online at YouTube."
jamesburke  connections  science  history  towatch  technology  culture  documentary  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Utopia London [via: http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2010/11/utopia-london.html
"There was a time when London united around the vision of a better future. A group of young idealists were fusing science and art to build an egalitarian city. This documentary is their story."
architecture  london  urbanism  utopia  history  film  cities  culture  documentary  modernism  idealism  urban  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
El Oso » Archive » [Must See] The Invisibles [See also: http://www.amnesty.org/en/theinvisibles AND http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/watch-invisibles-2010-11-02]
"I am in El Salvador today. I live in Mexico City. I still consider San Diego to be home. It’s that connection, I think, that caused these videos to have such a huge impact on me. I don’t think I could ever watch them without my eyes watering, my throat tightening up. It’s only 30 minutes of your day. Please watch them. Please pass them on."
immigration  migration  border  mexico  us  centralamerica  documentary  davidsasaki  labor  justice  classideas  sandiego  california  theinvisibles  amnestyinternational  csl  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
A Sentence Apart on Vimeo
"Three intimate portraits exploring how the incarceration of a family member transforms the hopes and dreams of their loved ones."
jasonsussberg  theorigby  documentary  incarceration  prisons  california  sanfrancisco  children  parenting  classideas  prisonindustrialcomplex  storytelling  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
A History of Libertarian Countries at Sea on Vimeo
"An animated History of libertarian new country projects on the high seas. Patri Friedman of The Seasteading Institute narrates previous attempts of creating autonomous freeholds in international waters."
libertarianism  classideas  micronations  history  utopia  animation  documentary  seasteading  patifriedman  theseasteadinginstitute  sealand  jasonsussberg  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
SHELTER on Vimeo
"Lloyd Kahn claims that shelter is more than a roof over your head. As the author and publisher of over a dozen books on home construction, Lloyd has been grappling with the concept of home, physically and psychically, for over five decades. Situated in the financial and housing crisis, this film profiles Lloyd's ideas on do-it-yourself construction and sustainability."
architecture  diy  houses  happiness  handmade  construction  design  documentary  building  community  craft  housing  glvo  lloydkahn  geodesicdomes  counterculture  shelter  sustainability  reuse  jasonsussberg  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
PICKED: Influencers | Brain Pickings
"If you can get past the truisms and borderline fluff, the film offers a good dose of inspiration through a handful of case studies, stitched together with meticulous art direction, beautiful cinematography and a wonderfully curated soundtrack."
influencers  glvo  creativity  film  documentary  influence  davisjohnson  paulrojanathara  nyc  culture  popculture  yearoff  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden trailer on Vimeo [See also: http://schoolingtheworld.org/film/]
"If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it?<br />
<br />
You would change the way it educates its children.<br />
<br />
The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a "better" life for indigenous children.<br />
<br />
But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's way of learning and understanding the world with our own? Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world's last sustainable indigenous cultures.<br />
<br />
"Generations from now, we'll look back and say, 'How could we have done this kind of thing to people?'""
schooling  us  colonialism  education  schools  culture  westernworld  international  global  tradition  economics  imperialism  film  documentary  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
REVERENCE by zana briski — Kickstarter
"Reverence is a project that brings together film, music and photographs of insects in a nomadic museum -- a temporary structure inspired by the exquisite shape of praying mantis ootheca, or eggpod. It's called Reverence because that is the state in which I photograph and that is what I want to communicate through my work."
insects  film  documentary  zanabriski  photography  nature  museums  nomadic  prayingmantises  music  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Rick Ayers: An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform
"Waiting for Superman is a slick marketing piece full of half-truths & distortions…suggests problems in education are fault of teachers & unions alone, & it asserts that the solution…is greater focus on top-down instruction driven by test scores…I'm not categorically opposed to charter schools; they can & often do allow a group of creative & innovative teachers, parents, & communities to build schools that work for their kids & are free of deadening bureaucracy of most districts…can be catalysts for even larger changes. But there are really 2 main opposing positions in "charter movement" -- not really a movement…but rather diverse range of different projects. On one side are those who hope to use charter option to operate effective small schools that are autonomous from districts. On other side are corporate powerhouses & ideological opponents of all things public who see this as a chance to break teacher's unions & to privatize education. Superman is a shill for the latter."
waitingforsuperman  charters  corporatism  testing  standardization  standardizedtesting  money  politics  pilcy  influence  privatization  rickayers  uniformity  specialinterests  documentary  2010  reform  education  publicschools  schools  funding  nclb  rttt  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Everything Is a Remix
"This site is a companion blog to the four-part video series, Everything is a Remix. The first episode of the series has been published and part two should be complete around the end of this year." [via: http://www.openculture.com/2010/09/everything_is_a_remix.html via http://twitter.com/willrich45/status/24562804816]<br />
<br />
[Related: A line that didn't make the cut for my Back to School Morning talk this year: There is nothing new under the sun. We build on the work of others. The NMY program is just our remix (blend) of what we consider to be the best ideas in learning and education from throughout history—Socrates, Dewey, Illich, Freire, Montessori, Postman, Ward, Holt, Meier, Kohn, Darling-Hammond, et al.]
tcsnmy  lcproject  remix  remixing  creativity  copyright  art  culture  mashup  music  video  documentary  cv  unschooling  deschooling  publicdomain  comments  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
The Fence - The Film
"In October 2006, the United States government decided to build a fence along its troubled border with Mexico. 3 years, 19 construction companies, 350 engineers, thousands of construction workers, tens of thousands of tons of metal and more than $3 billion later – was it all worth it? That's the question posed in Rory Kennedy's latest HBO Documentary THE FENCE (LA BARDA) as it investigates the impact of the project, revealing how the fence's stated goals – containing illegal immigration, cracking down on drug trafficking and protecting America from terrorists – have given way to unforeseen consequences."
via:regine  sandiego  borders  mexico  us  minutemen  documentary  labarda  drugs  immigration  terrorism  narcotraficantes  2006  georgewbush  fences  rorykennedy  classideas  politics  policy  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Jonathan Harris . The fading light
""It seems like anytime I go on a trip with someone, we end up breaking up right afterwards," I said. "But for me, I don't think it's because the excitement is gone. For me I think it's something different. It's like, there are these gaps between everyone. Every couple, every set of siblings, every parent and child, every group of friends, and you don't really know how big or small the gap is, because there's all this fog in the gap so you can't see into it. You start to imagine a bridge in the gap, hiding in the fog, and you're pretty sure it's there and if you ever really needed to you could go across the bridge. But when you take a trip with someone, and spend so much time together, all that fog blows away, and you can finally see the gap for what it is. Sometimes the gap is much smaller than you thought it was, and you grow a lot closer. Sometimes it's much bigger than you thought, and then you grow apart or break up."…"
jonathanharris  relationships  ecstatictruth  writing  work  travel  experience  fiction  nonfiction  journalism  wernerherzog  documentary  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
The Documentary About Hiroshima and Nagasaki The U.S. Didn't Want Us to See | Motherboard
"After its completion, the Japanese filmmakers were told to pack up all their materials and send them to America. While keeping some footage secreted away in the false ceiling of the cinematographer’s studio, they sent the rest of their footage, knowing that they were risking detention if they didn’t. They also knew that anything they sent to America might never be seen again.<br />
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It wouldn’t have been, if not for the determination of an American Army filmmaker named Daniel McGovern. Responsible for producing miltiary documentaries in Japan, he supported the work of the Japanese documentarians; once back in the U.S., he even attempted to pave the way for a national release of the film through Warner Brothers in 1946, holding previews for the press.<br />
<br />
Officials quickly nixed those plans. …print was discovered, some two decades later…he was told in a letter that “reports of censorship remain unjustified.”<br />
<br />
The original negative and production materials are missing to this day."
documentary  nagasaki  hiroshima  us  japan  history  classideas  wwii  ww2  atomicbomb  nuclear  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Gringos Living in Tijuana on Vimeo [via: http://generica.blogspot.com/2010/08/httpwww.html]
"GRINGOS LIVING IN TIJUANA provides a glimpse into the lives of seven, very unusual inhabitants of the city of Tijuana, Mexico. Derrik, Gerda, Jodi, Jason, Michael, Iana, and Jenny are not Hispanic, and they don't exactly appear as though they would "blend in" in the Mexican border town that has been called one the most dirty and dangerous cities of North America. Yet this film follows these gringos, in their daily activities, while they show and explain why they chose to live in the city they love-- Tijuana."
tijuana  sandiego  mexico  documentary 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Urbanized
"looks at issues & strategies behind urban design, featuring some of world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, & thinkers. Over half world's population now lives in an urban area, & 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, civic engagement, economic development, & environmental policy are fast becoming universal concerns. Yet much of the dialogue on these issues is disconnected from the public domain.
architecture  cities  documentary  film  urbanplanning  urbanism  urban  planning  design  objectified  urbanized  garyhustwit 
august 2010 by robertogreco
A 21st Century Education Film Series
"The twelve first-person films that make up this series explore three related themes, each in its own way at the center of current debate about what works, and what's needed, to help students succeed during school and in life."
21stcenturylearning  21stcenturyskills  film  documentary  tcsnmy  student-centered  education  schools  lcproject  stephenheppell  larryrosenstock  via:cervus  projectbasedlearning  technology  online 
july 2010 by robertogreco
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