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(Image credit: Vibrations from Gaza, by Rehab Nazzal, 2024)
In keeping with the Inuit oral culture, Of Ravens and Children is a documentary exploring the issues of family, community, self, environment and culture. Children and teens of Igloolik participated in a summer camp where they could openly talk about global issues. Elders speak about the importance of story-telling in their… ⊕
2024, 08:20 minutes
tapecode 302.03
Makeshift, spontaneous, and unconventional memorials randomly encountered throughout Toronto.Personal yet often activist in nature, many of these tributes document the passing of marginalized, murdered, and lesser-known individuals. Found in public spaces of civic sprawl, these sites were photographed and filmed between 2019… ⊕
This video presentation amplifies the bias of fictional distorted images of black males. Media of all types, this production included, display distorted images. These portrayals show how exaggerated simple-minded stereotyped images create beliefs that predict actions that reinforce false stereotypes that can and do affect the… ⊕
At an underground club in the 1980s, a young man flirts with a mysterious older guy, as a serial killer and a new “gay cancer” lurk on the sidelines. Four decades later, in the midst of a new pandemic, the same man returns to the revamped nightclub where he meets someone as young as he was on that magical night long… ⊕
A trio of film poems exploring the individual's struggle for survival and stability on an overpopulated planet. Shot on hand-processed 16 mm combined with digital stills, found footage, and phytograms made by leaving organic matter on film stock in the sun.