Sentences with phrase «by social documentary»

Influenced by social documentary photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and August Sander, Opie underscores and elevates the poignant yet unsettling veracity of her subjects.

Opie was originally inspired by social documentary photographers like Lewis Hine, but outside of photojournalism, there aren't a lot of contemporary artists looking at the world the way Hine did.

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When the album finally arrives, it will be flanked by their documentary film, a social media full - court press, and an augmented reality app that invites fans to be subversive promotional collaborators.

Something Ventured, a new documentary film directed by husband - and - wife team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, explores the lives of the men who, in the early 1960s when the venture capital industry was just beginning to take shape, risked social status (and their money) to back the companies they truly believed in.

This is a month - long online seminar program hosted by authors, speakers, and social justice activists Patti Digh and Victor Lee Lewis, who was featured in the documentary film, The Color of Fear, with help from a community of people who want and are willing to help us understand the reality of racism by telling their stories and sharing their resources.

A short documentary to show Government's commitment to the aged, by the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection was screened.

By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic frackinBy measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor of sociology at the UI and corresponding author of a new study, demonstrated how local screenings of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic frackinby natural gas drilling — affected the public debate on hydraulic fracking.

A documentary / fiction hybrid that's more effective as the former than the latter, Woodpeckers deserves to follow up its appearance in Sundance's World Dramatic competition section by serving time at festivals with a social conscience.

Halfway through, however, Baumbach's world view turns oddly prescriptive, its loose - limbed social observation tethered by a snoozy inside - baseball subplot on documentary ethics.

In the last few years, films made by first - timers with tiny budgets have tended to dominate, together with worthy documentaries examining social problems and global warming, the latter one of Redford's favourite hobby horses.

Of the politically and socially motivated standouts, The Social Network (d. David Fincher) and Black Venus (d. Abdellatif Kechiche) treated us to fictionalised accounts, vastly different in tone and aesthetic, of historical events (of which more below); while Post Mortem (d. Pablo Larrain) offered a fictional personal story set in the time of and impacted by the coup in Chile by Augusto Pinochet that overthrew Salvador Allende; and Inside Job (d. Charles Ferguson) blazed across the screen, a searing must - see documentary indictment of the men and institutions that caused the international financial crash of 2009 (again, more below).

This documentary film recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world - renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert - a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent.

What turns this fairly ordinary - sounding family drama into something on the edge of epic is its use of landscape and setting — the desert Southwest, California's San Fernando Valley (also the setting for Wenders's 1997 The End of Violence), and the concrete canyons of Houston — reinforced by the stunning cinematography of regular early collaborator Robby Müller and a plangent slide - guitar score by Ry Cooder (with whom Wenders would later make the Oscar - nominated documentary Buena Vista Social Club).

«While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, VIRUNGA stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.

Written by Peter Straughan, and according to its credits «inspired» by the 2005 documentary film of the same name, «Our Brand is Crisis» uneasily mixes the star vehicle with the screwball - political - comedy / satire with the (half - heartedly, in the end) impassioned call to social consciousness arms.

I chased The Other Side Of Hope with a film whose existential metaphors and appreciation for the drudgery and social habits of working stiffs couldn't be more different from Kaurismäki's droll, Capra-esque humanism: Good Luck (Grade: B), a striking documentary mood - piece by the American experimental director Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness).

Capital C (Unrated) Crowdfunding documentary exploring the benefits and pitfalls of financing an entrepreneurial enterprise by pitching a plethora of potential investors via social networking.

The Audience Award: Documentary was presented to The Invisible War, directed by Kirby Dick, about: an investigative and powerfully emotional examination of the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that cover up its existence and the profound personal and social consequences that arise from it.

Even more unlikely, «Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton» is directed by Oscar - nominated Rory Kennedy, best known for committed social - issue documentaries like «Last Days In Vietnam,» «Shouting Fire» and the Emmy - winning «Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.»

Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and executive producers Martin Scorsese (The Departed) and Steven Zaillian (Moneyball) present LIFE ITSELF, a documentary film that recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world - renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert — a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent.

While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, «Virunga» stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.

And aside from the dream sequences — all of which enhance and are justified by the story — the authenticity, realism, and social relevance established by writer / director Geremy Jasper is such that, at times, you could almost think you were watching a documentary.

I Am Not Your Negro Film Review by Kam Williams Oscar - Nominated Documentary Inspired by James Baldwin's Unfinished Manuscript When novelist / social critic James Baldwin passed away in 1987, he left behind an unfinished opus entitled «Remember This House.»

His use of color film in the early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.

From 1936 to 1940, he oversaw the League's Future Group as they created documentary photo essays of political importance, fueled by a desire for social change.

Collage, documentary photography, poetic text, painting, needlepoint, crochet, textile work and animation are all methods enlisted by these artists to create works that deal with various social issues.

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital January 17 — March 9 Anderson Gallery VCUarts Informed by an intensely personal and socially activist stance that combines elements of portraiture and social documentary, LaToya Ruby Frazier's photographs and videos portray her family and her hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, the site of Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill.

Based on documentary and photographic evidence of the time, it reconstructs the spatial, temporal, social, and political contexts in which the works of art were created and exhibited, and the way in which they were interpreted and received by the public of the time.

Holzfeind presents a new documentary film and installation on the Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments that consider how the social fabric of these buildings has been shaped over time by their architecture.

The project is led by Gina Minielli Gunkel, a professional social documentary photographer (SPQ class of 2016), and Nancy Bruno, a NYC public school teacher and ceramic sculpture artist (Queens College MFA class of 2017).

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Screening: Cao Fei's Haze and Fog and i.Mirror by China Tracy (aka: Cao Fei) Second Life Documentary Film at the Museum of Modern Art As part of its «Documentary Fortnight» series, MoMA is screening two films by Cao Fei, the Beijing - based artist and filmmaker who tackles Chinese economic and social issues.

Now regarded as a classic photography project, Tulsa has been acclaimed as a powerful and highly personal social documentary, still emulated by art and fashion photographers alike — a reputation due in no small part to its enduring capacity to shock.

The exhibition includes Mary Ellen Mark's social - documentary photograph, The Damm Family, which depicts a homeless family in their car, and an untitled photograph by Ramon Muxter which captures the roadside aftermath of a fallen mattress from the top of a van - evidence of the travails of highway travel.

From social documentary and street photography to portraiture and architectural photography, «strange and familiar» includes works by Tina Barney, Gian Butturini, Henri Cartier - Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Raymond Depardon, Rineke Dijkstra, Jim Dow, Hans Eijkelboom, Robert Frank, Bruce Gilden, Frank Habicht, Candida Höfer, Evelyn Hofer, Axel Hütte, Sergio Larrain, Shinro Ohtake, Akihiko Okamura, Cas Oorthuys, Gilles Peress, Paul Strand, Edith Tudor - Hart, Hans van der Meer, and Garry Winogrand.

His use of color film in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black - and - white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre.

Informed by documentary practices from the turn of the last century, Frazier explores identities of place, race, and family in work that is a hybrid of self - portraiture and social narrative.

Several of the two dozen works are documentary photographs of acts of social disobedience, public demonstrations and political counteraction, among them now - famous images by Richard Avedon, Gordon Parks, Larry Fink, Gilles Peress and Garry Winogrand.

Inspired by a blend of social documentary, figurative portraiture, and family album - style snapshots, her images explore visual expression and identity in black culture.

3.45 pm Content and Context: Documentary, Exhibition and Social Change: Ezra Winton, followed by Q and A

His oeuvre is informed by the social and political context of his home country Albania, but with the exception of documentary works such as Dammi I Colori (2003) in which Sala interviews the mayor of Tirana, Edi Rama, this usually remains implicit, wrapped in a thick blanket of poetry and music.

FILM SCREENING OF «THE INTERRUPTERS» Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6 — 9 pm Center for Social Change 2103 Coral Way, 2nd floor Film by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz «The Interrupters» (2011, unrated, 125 mins) is a documentary film exploring violence in America.

Instead, united by a methodical, often distanced perspective on architecture and landscape as a form of documentary evidence, his images summon the personal experience of public space and the social aspirations encoded in concrete, rebar, clay and dust.

Her images of California's LGBT community — including a self - portrait wearing a bondage mask, her body punctured by needles and the word pervert razored into her chest — threw Catherine Opie onto the social - documentary scene of the early 1990s.

Under the influence of Ashcan School artists, Ribak's early social realist work veered towards the documentary as he depicted boxers, miners, and even international communities being afflicted by Fascist regimes.

John Dudley Miller, a former nuclear engineering officer in the Navy with a doctorate in social psychology and a long career in journalism, sent this «Your Dot» critique of «Pandora's Promise,» the new documentary defending nuclear power, and the more recent videotaped discussion of nuclear energy by the climate scientist and campaigner James E. Hansen [Updated, 12:27 p.m. Hansen has responded below.]

Added to their great management weaknesses, the continued existence of law societies with their present powers and purpose is threatened by the great communications power provided by the social media, news media, documentary and investigative facilities and agencies, plus the sophisticated pressure groups.

The industrial plight of the city had been highlighted in «Roger & Me,» a 1989 documentary by social activist and native Michael Moore.