Sentences with phrase «archival history of the event»

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The film's prologue consists of a concise 2,000 - year history of Iran (The information provided in the sequence, which mixes storyboards and archival footage, is the first and last piece context to the events that follow), which leads directly into the events of November 4, 1979, when a massive group of angry students stormed the embassy and took everyone in the compound hostage.

Drawing on extensive archival research to explore the history of Poland's revolutionary upheavals, Blobaum departs from traditional interpretations of these events as peripheral to an essentially Russian movement that reached a climax in the Russian Revolution of 1917.

This exhibition and event series invited contemporary artists to respond to archival materials and poetry relating to the history of white southerners who migrated to northern cities in the 1960s and 70s and organized cross-racial social movements, while addressing historical and contemporary questions of equity, justice, and race relations.

Based on archival research and personal conversations with people involved in events, they are concerned with memory and the limits to objective accounts of history.