Author: Media Studies
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Student Profile: AYA JAFFAR
New School student, Aya Jaffar’s film for course, Poetics of Witnessing. Read more
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Housing Problems: Hong Kong
Film by Ines Gerber and Marie Bakke In 1935 a film entitled Housing Problems depicted the slums in London. It’s considered the first documentary with direct testimonies from working class tenants about their living conditions. They talked about small rooms (too small to swing a cat), crumbling walls, rotting staircases, sagging roofs, no running water, insanitary… Read more
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What Makes Us Who We Are
What Makes Us Who We Are, a youth media production by Osama Almathil, Nagi Algozy & Nayaf Othman. This video was made in the spring of 2014, when 25 high school students from the Arab-American Family Support Center (AAFSC) took part in an innovative participatory media project entitled, “I Need To Be Heard!” Read more
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The Right to Know
A short documentary about youth perceptions of safety and policing in New York City by participants of The Video Lab, 2012. Read more