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Britain on Film: Black Britain
Britain on Film: Black Britain
Featuring footage spanning from 1901 to 1985, this little-seen footage has been found from all across the UK. This programme allows an exploration into stories of migration, community and also the struggle against inequality, while also providing the opportunity to celebrate black British culture and life on screen. Films in the programme include: Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery (1901), Hull Fair (1902), For the Wounded (1915), From Trinidad to Serve the Empire (1916), Hello! West Indies (1943), Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 (1949), To the Four Corners (1957), Black Special Constable (1964), Black Police Officers (1966), Cold Railway Workers (1964), Nigerian Wedding in Cornwall (1964), Coloured School Leavers (1965), London Line No. 373 (1971), African Student Families (1975), Liverpool 8 (1972), Blood Ah Go Run (1982), The Jah People (1981) and Grove Carnival (1981)
Britain on Film: Black Britain 2017
Frenchman's Flat
Frenchman's Flat
In 1953 at the height of the Cold War "Frenchman's Flat" focuses on the atomic weapons testing that was conducted on U.S soil in Nevada.
Frenchman's Flat 2017
Mobilizing Movies! The U.S. Signal Corps Goes to War, 1917-1919
Mobilizing Movies! The U.S. Signal Corps Goes to War, 1917-1919
Focuses on the official military cinematographers that accompanied the American Expeditionary Force in France, how these men were trained, improvements in camera technique, the conditions at the front while filming the Great War and the uneasy relationship between the U.S. Signal Corps that was officially assigned to cover the war and the Committee on Public Information (CPI), America's wartime propaganda agency.
Mobilizing Movies! The U.S. Signal Corps Goes to War, 1917-1919 2017
São Paulo: Three Visual Essays
São Paulo: Three Visual Essays
São Paulo: Three Visual Essays redeems key characters of the city, with photographs taken in 1862, such as the ones by Militão Augusto de Azevedo, then onwards through the 20th century, with shots by Alice Brill, and finally through the 21st century, with pictures by Mauro Restiffe, among others. The visual communication of the city is presented since the painted walls of the 19th century to its neon lights and billboards by the 20th and 21st centuries. It also accompanies the grand transformations the city has gone through. Within the course of a hundred years, São Paulo, which started out as a village, transformed into one of the world's greatest metropolis.
São Paulo: Three Visual Essays 2017
The Manhattan Front
The Manhattan Front
In 1915, a German saboteur comes to Manhattan. Co-opting progressive labor politics, he provokes a neutral America into World War I.
The Manhattan Front 2017
15: A Quinceañera Story
15: A Quinceañera Story
15 – A Quinceañera Story is about Zoey, a young Mexican-American celebrating her 15th birthday. Though Zoey was assigned male at birth, she identifies as female and this celebration has special significance for her trans madrinas (godmothers) who couldn’t have a Quinceañeras of their own
15: A Quinceañera Story 2017
Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas
Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas
Film by Tatyana Borsch “Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas" (2017) talks about the Central Asian expedition of the outstanding artist, thinker and public figure Nicholas Roerich. It was the largest journey of the 20th century through the most unexplored areas of Asia. The route ran through the majestic, inaccessible mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Tibet, China, Kashmir, Mongolia and Altai. ... Altai - Himalayas.
Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas 2017
Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America
Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America
This is the story of Kent State University students who stood up to question racism, violence against protesters, and the long American involvement in the Vietnam War. On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot thirteen of them, killed four, and all were forever changed.
Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America 2017
The Architecture of the Trees
The Architecture of the Trees
A fifteen minute, structurally contemplative exploration of the superimposed juxtaposition of urbanism and naturalism, exhibited via a scrapbook of landscape images with a progressively eerie tone.
The Architecture of the Trees 2017