in the gallery...
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Big Stories, Small Towns
On the theme of documentary made in close collaboration with communities check out the Big Stories, Small Towns project that happened in Port Augusta, South Australia. Two experienced film makers lived and worked in Port Augusta for several months in 2008, producing a series of films about community stories. The material is only available online... »
Challenge for Change and NFB Filmmaker in Residence Program
One of the projects that broke new ground for movements in participatory & social-change film-making was the Challenge for Change program. Created by the Canadian National Film Board in 1967, it ran until 1980 and resulted in over 140 films being made as collaborations between filmmakers and Canadian communities. The Challenge for Change program... »
Detroit Summer & the Allied Media Conference
While I was in New Orleans I had the opportunity to meet DJ Invinsible (see her company emergence music for insight into independant hip hop world), who was doing some media training for the new young writers at the Neighborhood Story Project who were about to launch their books. She is a very cool... »
Cameras for community in New Orleans
Since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the slow process of rebuilding has progressed, a number of new collaborative media making projects have gotten underway around the city. The New Orleans Kid Camera Project started in 2006 when Joanna Rosenthal & Cat Malovic, both trained as social workers, were looking for a way to engage... »
Actions in Palestine region – social justice and advocacy through photography and film
I wrote a few weeks ago about projects in the Pacific region that are using participatory visual practices to advocate for social and environmental issues, such as Pacific Black Box addressing displacement due to climate change. In the Middle East – where conflict colours the daily life of everyone and the perceptions of the region... »
Interesting stuff in Africa
All sorts of interesting collaborative art/social change/community doco work has been going on in various parts of Africa for many years – I recall several years ago at the first 2 Fires Conference in Braidwood NSW (Australia) meeting a woman who had been facilitating participatory art projects with AIDS orphans with fascinating result… HIV and... »
Pacific Black Box
Many projects that bring together collaborative arts and collaborative documentary (or ethnography) practices begin with a simple aim of allowing a particular group of people to give voice to issues that effect them, rather than relying on outsiders to represent them. By providing individuals and communities with tools for self expression – be they... »
Have You Heard … the movement
The talented and busy Eve Tulbert, and her collaborator Prof. Eric Rice have been super busy this north american summer (‘09) working on the Have You Heard project, or movement… I last wrote about Eve back in July, introducing her and the collaborative media for health work with LA street kids and other young people,... »
Intro to participatory video making in and around San Cristobal De Las Casas
Images in this post thanks to Indigenous Video Makers of the Southern Frontera Project CIESAS Sureste IN the town of San Cristobal de las Casas there is an astounding wealth of activities that are combining practices of collaborative ethnography (that is people documenting their own cultures and community, rather that this work... »
sophiehaviland.com goes live
Sophie Haviland is my sister and she has a great new website, www.sophiehaviland.com! Such a plug might be seen as shameless nepotism, but this site is a window into a whole world of collaborative art projects which most people will not know about, and is well worth a visit for anyone interested in international collaborative... »