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Next Stop Splitsville

October 4, 2010 hudmoura

Hilary is a nice middle aged lesbian with multiple personalities. She has a hard time making friends because the “alters”…

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A Search for Home: exploring family history

September 19, 2010 hudmoura

          The film A search for home, an experimental documentary directed by Gillian Greenfeld, tells the story of…

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New economic and social policies for an interactive age

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Oliver Russler’s Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies is a thematic interactive art installation that challenges the audience to look their own…

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Sebastião Salgado

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The photographs of Sebastião Salgado, are some of the rawest accounts of the disparity of human civilization. Compositionally and graphically,…

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Conjure One: global network of music

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At first listen, Conjure One’s self-titled album (2002) is just a standard electro-pop record. Delve deeper, however, to find that each…

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Globally understood: Food as a basic need. A look at Pierre Leichner’s Food Wars

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Pierre Leichner’s exhibit Food Wars is currently running at the Maple Ridge Art Gallery, and consists of sculptures as well as…

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Fusion music: the disappearance of local music

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Musicians in Exile (1992), directed by Jacques Holender, follows the lives of several musicians who had fled their country. This film…

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Alighiero Boetti: Political Map of the World (1971-1989)

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Alighiero Boetti, born in Italy in 1940, was part of the Arte Povera movement that began in 1967.  This movement…

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Dancing with Matt Harding at the Internet as a way to find happiness and global reliability

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In 2006, Matt Harding embarked on a 6 month trip through 39 countries to dance in front of famous landmarks.…

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Fast Food Change: Supersize Me

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Writer and director Morgan Spurlock documented the effects of a nation’s love of fast food, and what the consequences to…

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Dan Perjovschi: What happened to us? What is happening to the world we live in?

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Dan Perjovschi is an anti-communist and visual artist, mixing drawings, cartoons and graffiti in artistic pieces drawn directly on the…

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Transmission of the Invisible: transmission of an almost-lost tradition to the modern global world

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What happens to the culture of a country that is subjected to civil war, genocide, poverty, corruption and foreign industrial…

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Global Traffickers of Music

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Up, Bustle and Out is a group from Bristol, England that travel around the world to different locations in order…

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Liu Bolin: Almost Invisible

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The photographs have been entitled “Almost Invisible” as well as “The Invisible Man in China” in various Internet sites, but…

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When Bollywood meets Hollywood

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The film Slumdog Millionaire is possibly the most successful collaboration between Bollywood and Hollywood filmmakers in terms of the publicity…

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Expanding global linkage in photography

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Tim Barber is an American born, Canadian educated, photographer living and working in New York City. In 2005 he created…

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Bottari: what comes next?

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Sooja Kim‘s Cities on the Move – 2727 kilometers Bottari Truck (1997) is an eleven-day performance piece where the artist…

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The Nollywood Boom

June 6, 2010 hudmoura

Nollywood represents the third largest grossing film industry, after Hollywood and Bollywood. Based out of Nigeria, Nollywood relies on the…

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Judy Radul’s Courtroom Drama

April 15, 2010 hudmoura

Judy Radul’s, World Rehearsal Court, exhibited for the first time last year at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery…

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Framing Intolerable Ideas in Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven

April 1, 2010 hudmoura

Todd Haynes film Far From Heaven uses colorful and melodramatic Cinematography (by Edward Lachman) to explore issues of race, class…

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Land of Lemons: Palestine’s fight for its future in Lemon Tree

March 26, 2010 hudmoura

Israel’s Lemon Tree uses the analogy of a lemon grove to reveal the political and social complexities present between Israel…

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