Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Arts & Culture'
SXSW 2012 Film Festival: Documentary Report
by Jessica Mosby -USA- The annual South by Southwest film, interactive, and music festivals are one of the highlights of my year. In 2011 I attended South by Southwest for the first time, and while I had fun, being a...
21st Century Teens, 15th Century Albanian Law: Joshua Marston’s The Forgiveness of Blood
by Alexandra Marie Daniels -USA- Through the lens of average teenage eyes, The Forgiveness of Blood captures the contradictions that have hindered Albania’s post-communist development. Specific in context yet universal in theme, Joshua Marston (director of the highly acclaimed 2004...
When Did You Know You Were A Feminist?
by Anna Clark -USA- I was the only woman who worked on a ropes course during the summer I spent employed at a girls’ camp in Pennsylvania. Officially, my job was to strap kids into climbing harnesses and belay them...
Buddhism in Ladakh: Everyday, Everywhere
by Charukesi Ramadurai - India - High in the north Indian state of Kashmir sits Ladakh, held by many as the last bastion of Himalayan Buddhism. Since Tibet is out of bounds for most tourists, Ladakh now attracts travelers and...
Art Installation The Dresses / Objects Project Explores Femininity and Gender
by Emily Wilson -USA- I admire boldness. So Katrina Rodabaugh’s The Dresses / Objects Project, a multi-disciplinary installation combining a dizzying array of artistic forms appealed to me. Through poetry, dance, fashion, photography and letterpress, Rodabaugh embraces a broad swath...
In the Sinai Desert, Radio Sharm is Live and Well
by Victoria Aitken -UK- The Sinai desert has a new underground radio station - the only one to escape a ban on live radio transmissions - and it is breaking records for a radio station of its size. Radio Sharm’s...
Kashmir's Last Cinema Struggles to Survive
by Nusrat Ara -Indian-Administered Kashmir- It is Sunday noon. I am standing outside the only functional cinema in all of Indian administered Kashmir. Located in the city of Srinagar, the shabby Neelam Cinema sits quiet. It looks more like a...
Geotherapy: Artist Mara Haseltine's Blueprints to Save the Planet
by Nora Maccoby - USA - "The question for me has always been: How can I help the world?" Mara Haseltine smiles - her large aquatic blue eyes bright and passionate. "Because it's a race against time. We have to...
Climate Refugees: The Human Toll of a Changing Planet
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The world’s weather is changing and millions of people will be displaced. This tragic reality is captured in the new documentary film, Climate Refugees. Without engaging in the divisive global warming debate, director and...
Interview with Howl film directors Epstein and Friedman: “Allen Ginsberg’s Poetic Prophecy”
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Howl, a biopic centered on beatnik Allen Ginsberg’s seminal poem and the resulting obscenity trial, was the most moving and intellectually engaging film presented at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival....
Of Art, the Sacred and the Secular: India’s Debate over Painter M.F. Hussain
by Aditi Bhaduri - India - A debate gripping much of India’s urban middle class has been the controversy surrounding renowned painter M.F. Hussain. Considered India’s Picasso, he received the country’s second highest civilian award – the Padma Vibhushan. But...
Mine: The Pets That Hurricane Katrina Left Behind
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The most emotionally and politically-charged documentary of the year is about a surprisingly original subject: the domestic pets that were lost or left behind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Mine artfully portrays the...
If There is Something to Desire:
Interview with Russian Poet Vera Pavlova
by Anna Clark - USA - Why is the word yes so brief? It should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in...
India's Women Find Empowerment in Exotic Dance
by Mandy Van Deven - India - Anyone who has ever sat through the frequent and painstakingly choreographed musical numbers in a Bollywood film can tell you that dance is an integral part of Indian culture. From Bhangra in the...
Proceed and Be Bold: Director Laura Zinger and Subject Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. on Art, Life, and Independent Filmmaking
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is living the dream. After discovering his love of letterpress, Kennedy left his comfortable corporate job and devoted his life to his art. Today the self-described “humble negro printer” lives...
Tapestries of Hope: Director Michealene Cristini Risley on the Tenacity and Optimism of Zimbabwe’s Rape Survivors
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The most striking element of the new documentary Tapestries of Hope is not the hell that the young rape survivors profiled have lived through, but their unbreakable spirit. The film is a vibrant international...
Stripping Burlesque of Whiteness: Brown Girls Burlesque Take Center Stage
by Mandy Van Deven - India - Known for its bawdy sexual humor, over-the-top characters, and underlying social criticism, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales set the stage for the satirical theatrics which came to be known as burlesque. During its...
Coming of Age in 1960s London: Interview with An Education's Director Lone Scherfig
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Post-war London is at its most enchanting in director Lone Scherfig’s new film, An Education. Nick Hornby’s clever screenplay, Scherfig’s apt direction and a talented star-studded cast that includes Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Peter...
Art Imitating Life: Berlin Through the Eyes of Käthe Kollwitz
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Celebrations for the historic occasion have been planned for months, and next week, Angela Merkel – Germany’s first and now second-term...
Ethiopia: The “Cradle of Civilization” Struggles for Survival
Photoessay by Tammy Law - Australia - One of the oldest countries in the world, Ethiopia is often referred to as “the cradle of civilization” – a country with a tumultuous past, present and future, and yet at the same...
Parvati’s Burden: Scratching the Surface of Motherhood in India
by Mandy Van Deven - India - Unlike the abundance of exploration into the many dilemmas of motherhood by feminists in the West, in India the subject is so under-examined that it might as well not even exist. In fact,...
Crude: The Real Price of Oil – An Interview with Director Joe Berlinger
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Crude: The Real Price of Oil is outright sickening. Huge crude oil pits dot the landscape, natural waterways are so polluted that drinking the water causes cancer, and Ecuador’s indigenous communities’ entire way of...
Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Burma (also known as Myanmar) is a closed country, literally. Since the 1962 military coup, few outsiders have even entered the Southeast Asian country. News reports are scarce and often unreliable because the news...
From Denmark with Love:
An Interview with Filmmaker Janus Metz
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - Migrant communities in Denmark are a subject fraught with debate. As South Asian women increasingly immigrate to Scandinavia, stricter laws have been enacted to discourage the practice of convenience marriages. Rumors about abuse in...
Colin Beavan on Life Post-No Impact Man: "No American is living a sustainable life"
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The title of Colin Beavan’s book, No Impact Man – not to be confused with the documentary or blog – has a mildly self-deprecating tone that sums things up nicely, No Impact Man: The...
The Water Front: Fighting to Keep the Tap On
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Highland Park, Michigan would seem an unlikely candidate for water access problems – the city is located on the Great Lakes, the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world. The Great Lakes are...
Between Denmark and Thailand:
Two Films Explore Romantic Barter
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - For the past two years, the buzz has grown increasingly louder about emerging Danish documentary filmmaker Janus Metz. In his complementary, almost sequential films, Love on Delivery (From Thailand to Thy) and Ticket to...
This Way Up: A Meditation on Growing Old Along the Israeli/Palestinian Border
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Growing old in a nursing home is rarely an enviable fate. For the Palestinian Christian residents of the Catholic–run Our Lady of Sorrows nursing home, old age is particularly disheartening. Located in East Jerusalem,...
Heart of Stone: Two Generations Unite to Confront Gang Violence in Urban Newark
by Jessica Mosby - USA - During its midcentury glory days, Weequahic High School was a prestigious public school located in a predominantly Jewish enclave of Newark, New Jersey. Students were expected to excel post-graduation, as evidenced by noteworthy alumni,...
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg: Director Aviva Kempner Documents the Life of TV Pioneer Gertrude Berg
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Gertrude Berg is the most famous cultural icon you’ve most likely never heard of. The Jewish-American writer and actress played her most famous character, Molly Goldberg, for over 25 years on radio and later...
Barking Water: Sterlin Harjo’s Sentimental Take on the Classic Road Trip
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The opening scene of Sterlin Harjo’s new film Barking Water perfectly sets the film’s tone. Frankie (Richard Ray Whitman) lies dying in the hospital when old flame Irene (Casey Camp-Horinek) busts him out, loads...
Interview with Actress Parker Posey: “It’s not easy as a woman in this business to have integrity”
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Unlike many actors in the film industry, Parker Posey’s aspiration is not to be an A-list Hollywood star. Her career path has circumvented mainstream filmmaking, which – in her own words – does...
Telling the Stories of Chinese-America:
Lisa See on Her New Novel, Shanghai Girls
by Anna Clark - USA - Meet Lisa See—if you aren't already among her millions of fans around the world. Born in Paris and raised in Los Angeles, where she lives today, See is the New York Times bestselling author...
Deepa’s Inferno: Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in Heaven on Earth
by Mandy Van Deven - India - Couched in a story from Indian mythology, Deepa Mehta’s newest feature film, Heaven on Earth, blurs the line between reality and fantasy to provide a nuanced and authentic look at the struggles of...
Art & Copy: A Look at the Creativity Behind American Advertising
by Jessica Mosby - USA - This summer Don Draper and company return to AMC for the third season of the hit TV show Mad Men. The stylized drama has made the 1960s advertising industry seem like the glory days...
Interview with Film Director Sally Potter: “Women are human beings in drag”
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - When I told British director and choreographer Sally Potter, 59, that I am from Argentina, she broke into song - “Don’t cry for me Argentina.” She has many fond memories from the time...
Big River Man: Martin Strel versus the Amazon
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Martin Strel does not look like an athlete. The overweight fiftysomething is an alcoholic, a flamenco guitarist, and a one-time professional gambler. But this Slovenian long-distance swimmer has swam the Mississippi, the Danube, the...
Chris Rock Searches for Answers in Good Hair
by Jessica Mosby - USA - "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" That question, tearfully posed to comedian Chris Rock by his young daughter Lola, was all it took for Rock to travel the country (camera crew in...
The Cove: Action, Adventure, and the Race to Save Japan’s Dolphins
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Anyone who thinks that documentaries are boring and stuffy should see The Cove – just to have their preconceived notions shattered. The film is 90 minutes of danger, covert operations, and thrilling feats with...
No Impact Man and Earth Days: Two Sides of Environmentalism
by Jessica Mosby - USA - On Wednesday, the United States will celebrate the 39th Earth Day. In honor of this annual call to environmentalism, I have chosen to preview two documentaries that premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival:...
Drama Therapy: Blind Street Workers in India Find a Voice in the Arts
by Mridu Khullar - India / USA - A theatre troupe consisting of unemployed job seekers, hawkers on the streets of Kolkata, India, and people who've been told they have no prospects in life, come together each evening to sing,...
Afghan Star: Afghanistan’s American Idol
by Jessica Mosby - USA - American Idol in Afghanistan? Seriously? Afghanistan’s first competition/reality show, Afghan Star, is arguably the most popular – and controversial – television program in Afghanistan. Eleven million people, or one-third of the country, tuned in...
Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y., Art, Craft, and Design
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y., Art, Craft, and Design is about one my favorite things (do it yourself) and profiles some of my favorite artists and crafters (Jill Bliss, Nikki McClure, and Debbie...
Interview with Actress Tilda Swinton: "I am probably a woman"
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Tilda Swinton is one of the most talented and captivating artists in current international cinema. She’s also in high demand. Tilda recently finished shooting a Jim Jarmusch film in Spain with Jim Murray...
Adam: Not Your Average Love Story
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Most American romantic comedies and dramadies go something like this: two attractive people "meet cute"; after some witty banter, and maybe a date, they find themselves in bed together; immediately following this sexual encounter...
The 2009 Academy Awards: Documentary Features in the Race for an Oscar
by Jessica Mosby - USA - On Sunday night, the 81st Academy Awards will air live from Los Angeles. Five documentary films are vying for the coveted Documentary Feature Oscar: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), Encounters at the End of the World,...
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Family Treks Across Mongolia to Help their Autistic Son
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The premise of the new documentary film Over the Hills and Far Away is straight from the handbook of the American bourgeoisie: Journalist father and professor mother take their young autistic son on a...
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Oscar season usually guarantees that there will be at least one film about the Holocaust starring an A-list actor. 2009 is no exception: Tom Cruise stars in Valkyrie; Viggo Mortensen (of Lord of the...
Flow: Who Owns the World’s Water?
by Jessica Mosby - USA - After seeing the new documentary Flow, my 2009 New Year’s resolution is to stop buying bottled water. Over $100 billion is spent annually on bottled water, but it would cost only $30 billion to...
Pray the Devil Back to Hell: Liberian Women Bring Peace to their War-Torn Country
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The recent history of Liberia is bloody. Valuable natural resources, corrupt leaders, ethnic conflicts, and thousands of displaced people led to 8 years of conflict during Liberia’s two civil wars (1989-1993 and 1999-2003). Many...
A Voice for the People: Chile’s Murals Are a Gallery of the Streets
by Kavita Bedford - Australia - Those seeking insight into the Chilean mentality should explore the footpaths of Santiago and Valparaíso. The desires, fantasies and messages of the last forty years are boldly expressed on walls, metro stations and buildings....
The Gorée Gazette Tackles the Realities of Economic Migration from Africa
by Blaire Dessent - France - For the 2008 Dak’Art Biennial, an international art exhibition held in Dakar, Senegal, a group of artists and thinkers associated with the Action Lab project of the Brooklyn-based freeDimensional (fD), collaborated on the production...
Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi
by Jessica Mosby - USA - At the tender age of 19, Claudio Duran opened the door of his Santiago home in the middle of the night to find military secret police ready to arrest him. The officers took him...
Lemon Tree: The Struggle of One Woman Caught in the Middle of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
by Jessica Mosby - USA - United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made nineteen trips to the Middle East in the last two years in hopes of securing a regional peace accord. But as the Bush administration comes...
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
by Jessica Mosby - USA - I vividly remember the 1988 presidential election, or more accurately the months of campaigning that led up to the election. At the time, my family did not have cable television and all that was...
Soldiers of Conscience: Opposing the Iraq War
by Jessica Mosby - USA - “There are two types of bayonet fighters, the quick and the dead. Which type are you?” This is what a boot camp drill sergeant yells at new recruits, who then reply in unison –...
In the Family: Preventing Breast and Ovarian Cancer with Genetic Testing
by Jessica Mosby - USA - If you could know that you were at risk for a terminal illness, would you want to know? And then what would you do next if the news confirmed your worst fears? At the...
The Jewel of Medina Stirs up New Controversy for its Depiction of the Prophet Muhammad
by Imelda V. Abaño - Philippines - Back in September 2005, the now infamous Danish cartoon of the prophet Muhammad became a worldwide controversy. It was reprinted in newspapers in several countries and led to widespread Muslim protests and violence....
Overcoming Bigotry with Beauty: A Man Named Pearl
by Jessica Mosby - USA - A middle-aged African American man climbs a ladder that he has precariously perched next to an enormous tree. His only source of light is his tractor’s small headlight. When he reaches the top of...
The Center for Creative Growth: Celebrating the Potential of Every Human Being
by Blaire Dessent - France - When the family of Ramon Avalos, a blind and mentally disabled man in his 50s, received a check from Center for Creative Growth for a few hundred dollars from the sales of his artwork,...
A Raw Portrait of Police Violence in Rio: Interview with Brazilian director José Padilha
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Even before Elite Squad was released commercially in October 2007, the hugely popular film about police violence and corruption in Rio de Janeiro was already a major success in Brazil. Eleven million Brazilians...
Freedom Machines: Empowerment through Technology
by Jessica Mosby - USA - There will always be those who yearn for a simpler time, a time before the world was consumed by the internet and ever-advancing technologies. For the 54 million people living with disabilities in the...
Long Hair Drama, Part 4
by Lijia Zhang - China Sundown left a trail of blood-red clouds in the western sky, yet evening offered no respite from the burning heat. With the plum rain season at an end Nanjing renewed its reputation as one of...
The Greening of Southie: Two Shades of a "Green" Building
by Jessica Mosby - USA - In the not so distant past, the idea of reducing, reusing, and recycling seemed idealistic, even if it just meant putting a glass bottle in a recycling container instead of the trash. But a...
Long Hair Drama, Part 3
by Lijia Zhang - China - Since the reform and opening up, a handful of young people have begun to worship capitalism,” preached political instructor Wang Aimin, the ideologue-in-chief of our unit, spittle flying over his notes and out into...
Long Hair Drama, Part 2
by Lijia Zhang - China - CLICK, CLACK, CLICK, CLACK ... When the percussive tap sounded from the corridor outside I was instantly alert. Soon, the source arrived in the doorway and walked into the workshop. “Masters, have you all...
Long Hair Drama, Part 1
by Lijia Zhang - China - For ten years, I worked in a missile factory on the banks of the Yangtze River. Although I grew up in the residential compound of my mother’s factory, and all my friends were the...
Tibetans Find Power in Words
by Mridu Khullar - India - • Tibetan writers are using literature and new languages, Chinese and English, to share information about Tibet's struggle for freedom with a wider audience. Photograph by Sirensongs. •With the 2008 Olympics in China beginning...
Still Rocking and Protesting in the Free World: CSNY Déjà Vu
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Neil Young does not mince words. During his Freedom of Speech 2006 tour with on-again-off-again band mates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, the group energetically performed Young’s new songs titled, “Let’s Impeach...
I.O.U.S.A.: A Surprisingly Entertaining Look at America’s Debt
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Paying upwards of $10 USD to see a movie about economics, particularly in these increasingly desperate financial times, hardly seems like a prudent decision – much less a pleasurable way to spend a Sunday...
A New China Floods the Traditional Way of Life in Up the Yangtze
by Jessica Mosby - USA - On 8-8-08 when the Beijing Summer Olympics begins, the world will see that the Maoist doctrine of the Cultural Revolution has been replaced by capitalism and McDonald’s – all in the name of progress....
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Every Sunday afternoon my college journalism advisor, who everyone lovingly called “Coach,” would meet with the newspaper staff and critique the past week’s articles. As a portly middle-aged man who had won numerous awards...
The Aftermath Project: War Is Only Half the Story
by Sara Terry - USA - It all goes back, I think, to the day I was standing in a mass grave, hating the fact that I was there, balanced precariously on a mound of bones, camera reluctantly in hand....
To New York’s Theatre Company CollaborationTown,
“Life is a Collage”
by Emily Rose Herzlin - USA - “Theatre is ephemeral,” proclaims Geoffrey Decas as he waxes philosophic and waters the plants on his terrace in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Cars whiz by on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway as the smell of marinated...
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
by Jessica Mosby - USA - American slave trading is a human rights atrocity forever associated with the Confederacy of the Southern United States. Northerners are stereotypically portrayed as benevolent abolitionists fighting the South’s slave labor plantations. But history is...
Rows of Opportunities: Art of the Olympians Is Planting the Seeds of Excellence
by Cathy Oerter - USA - I ran through the Iowa countryside, young and carefree, unaware of the life I had been richly blessed with. It was just me and the breeze and the green methodical cornfields. The gravel roads,...
Kenya’s Kazuri Bead Factory Allows Women from Kibera Slum to Build New Lives
by Sarah Wyatt - USA - Years of hardship and backbreaking labor in the riot-stricken slums of Kibera in south Kenya have worn 18 year old Eshe Koome to the bone. A single mother of two, she walked out on...
The Linguists: Searching for Endangered Languages Around the World
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Linguistics, the study of languages, is generally not interesting for people who are not linguists. Filming the daily work of a linguist – reading and listening – is an idea better suited for a...
Madcap Adventures and Serious Cultural Discussions: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Revealing the ending of a film is downright mean, but it’s obvious that Oscar-nominated director Morgan Spurlock does not find Osama Bin Laden in his latest documentary film Where in the World is Osama...
Girls Rock!: Keeping the Beat for Aspiring Female Musicians
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The experiences and emotions of young American girls are much more complicated, and even tragic, than most people, particularly men, would assume. Girls as young as eight are regularly confronting low self-esteem, eating disorders,...
Interview with Polish Director Andrzej Wajda: An Elegy for Poland’s Painful Past
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Andrzej Wajda was 13 years old when World War II broke out. Together with his mother he lived most of his life in the vain hope that his father might have survived the...
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
by Jessica Mosby - USA - “Rape has always been used as a weapon of war” is the opening line of the new documentary film The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. For 76 minutes the film exposes the incredibly...
Art for a Time of Crisis
by Nancy Van Ness - USA - In a heap on the studio floor as though they had collapsed under some disaster, fallen birds present a scene of despair. I am drawn toward them. They are a very powerful artistic...
Iconic Photographer Annie Leibovitz Bares All in New Book and Exhibit
by Molly Nance - USA - I'm not usually one to arrive to a press event 30 minutes early, but recently I woke up in time to drive two hours north from Monterey to San Francisco, to arrive promptly at...
Much Ado about Everything: Berlin’s 58th International Film Festival
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - This year’s 58th International Film Festival in Berlin is offering a heterogeneous mix of topics and genres with many documentaries, a lot of pathos, a few lost souls, war and violence, politics as...
Made in America: Unending Violence in the Land of Prosperity
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Forty years of unending gang violence between rival gangs, the Bloods and Crips, has killed over 15,000 people in South Central Los Angeles. It seems counterintuitive that one of the most dangerous places in...
Sundance: Snow, Films, Celebrities and The Business of Film
by Jessica Mosby - USA - If you want to see interesting independent films and the movie stars in them, the Sundance film festival, held in the picturesque ski town of Park City, Utah, is the place to go. The...
Turn Back South: Immigration Through the Lens of a Bosnian Immigrant
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Though the United States is a country of immigrants, immigration divides the culture and fuels an endless debate clouded by strong emotion on both sides. Over 11.3 million people are living illegally in the...
The Beauty Academy of Kabul
by Jessica Mosby - USA - When thinking of Afghanistan, it is difficult not to be overwhelmed by despair. Violence claimed over 6,000 lives in 2007 alone. The quality of life for women continues to decline as a result of...
Filmmaker Wendy Slick Shows That “repressing women’s sexual being is a political issue”
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Including the word “orgasm” in the title of your documentary film is a bold move. After seeing the film Passion and Power: Technology of Orgasm at the Mill Valley Film Festival, I wanted to...
Author Cynthia Reeves Explores Relationships, Language and Dreams in Badlands
by Anna Clark - USA - There comes a time when a reader is starved for something new. A lot of tremendous fiction is being published these days, but most people don’t ever hear about it. In a time when...
Reflecting on What You Call Winter, Nalini Jones Finds That Home Is Where the Heart Is
by Nalini Jones - USA - Tomorrow evening, I fly to India. My bag is mostly packed and is a source of consternation to my dog, a sensitive soul who fears imminent departure. For me it is a sort of...
John & Yoko: A New York Love Story
by Hayward Hawks Marcus - USA - For years, many people have painted Yoko Ono as the cold and controlling monster who broke up the Beatles, ran John Lennon’s life, and probably made the pop legend unhappy, even if he...
Daughters of Wisdom: Tibetan Nuns Inspiring a Feminist Movement Through Their Isolated Monastic Life
by Jessica Mosby - USA - “Free Tibet” has become part of our lexicon due to countless bumper stickers adorning Volvos and fundraisers featuring Richard Gere. Despite the feminist persuasion of many Tibetan supporters, women in Tibet, particularly nuns, are...
Broadway Corporations like Disney Make Millions as Stagehands Strike to Save Homes, Jobs
by Nancy Van Ness - USA - I cross 42nd Street and walk up Times Square. It is a cold, windy, rainy day but I had promised to come. I continue past the army recruiting center and the police headquarters;...
Four Sheets to the Wind: An Insider’s View of One Native American Family
by Jessica Mosby USA The story of a young and adrift guy finding his way in a confusing world has been done – too many times. Though I usually would not go see a film about this sort of fellow,...
King Corn: Changing What We Eat and How We Grow It
by Jessica Mosby USA • Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis become the kings of corn in their new documentary by exploring the factors that have led to America's obesity epidemic. Photograph by Sam Cullman, courtesy of Mosaic Films Incorporated. •Blaming...
Postcards From Tora Bora: Looking for the Afghanistan of Yesterday in the Ruins of Today
by Jessica Mosby USA When you think of Afghanistan, smiling women in shift dresses attending college is not the first image that comes to mind. Decades of violence has devastated the country, leaving little more than bomb craters, crumbling buildings,...
Angels in the Dust: A Glimmer of Hope in HIV/AIDS Epidemic
by Jessica Mosby USA 100 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa will have been infected with HIV/AIDS by the year 2010. Another 26 million children will be orphaned by the virus. The idea that two ordinary people could affect, much less...
Artists Make Art Because They Must
by Nancy Van Ness USA Forty Years Ago - I was flying. The other dancers and I, in lines, executed jumps across the studio, immediately turning and coming back - jumping over and over again - propelled by music from...
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