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What's Your Life Story: Red Crab Walking (16 seconds)

A crab strolls across wet rocks to the water's edge.

Life Stories Open Call check in (2:04)

Chris Hastings checks in about Life Stories Open Call

WGBH Lab: LIfe Stories, September 14, 2009 (1:30)

Time for a new Open Call! Check out this fall theme, Life Stories, inspired by NOVA

"Heating Up" rough cut (5:49)

In 2004 a shoe-string visionary youth arts organization, Artists For Humanity (AFH), built one of the most environmentally sustain...

Heating Up! Water and Energy - Lennon Rodgers (7:52)

About Lennon Studying mechanical engineering  •  Worked for a few years at NASA/JPL on large  ground bas...

Heating Up! Tackling Transportation - Jeff McAulay (10:31)

About Jeff Studied biomedical engineering Getting electricity from bacteria Worked at Nuvera Fuels Cells Producing hydr...

Heating Up! Solar Energy - Kevin J. Huang (9:31)

About Kevin B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell S.M. student, Technology and Policy, MIT Ph.D. student, Materials...

Heating Up! Energy & Climate - Laura Meredith (6:49)

About Laura Education: B.S. in Chemistry – CalPoly, San Luis Obispo PhD student in Climate Physics & Chemistry – MIT ...

Heating Up! Webinar 2 - Chris Hastings (2:21)

As part of the Heating Up Open Call and in recognition of Earth Hour The WGBH Lab and the MIT Energy Club are hosting a live webin...

Heating Up - Webinar #1 (51:16)

An exploration of how video makers are mixing and reusing media on the web to create new content.

Heating Up - Intro to open call (1:15)

Learn about the WGBH Lab's new open call "Heating Up"

My Best Friend for Congress (4:29)

In 1993, my good friend, George Phillips, and I ran for senior class government. I won my race to be treasurer and he won the pres...

Mi Otro Yo (4:53)

Tucson High School students are battling a recent senate bill aimed at banning all ethnic studies courses and clubs in publicly fu...

Back Home and Voting (3:29)

My proposal is simple in content but more complex and nuanced in its presentation. I want to present 3 to 4 socio-psychological a...

The Politics of Smear (4:53)

How is it that during Election 2008, the words "Muslim" and "Islam" have become political dirty words?

Uncle Sam (3:55)

Every now and then, someone stands out of the crowd and makes people take notice. In this case, he happens to bear a striking rese...

Voting Schmoting (4:50)

An artistic and impressionistic pictorial of an unordinary life in an ordinary environment. For many years, economists have tho...

Leave the Many and Hold the Few (3:00)

“Leave the Many and Hold the Few” is a brief glimpse into the relationship that I have with my nana. Last year, I moved home ...

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (3:19)

Every Tuesday my eighteen-month old daughter and I take a music class together. Last fall we switched from our kids only class to ...

Grandmother Granddaughter (03:00)

The house that Martha bought some 50 years ago is full of people. The film Grandmother Granddaughter is a snapshot of Martha’s l...

Interlude (4:17)

”Interlude” is an intimate and poetic portrait of the artist’s ninety-two year old grandmother, who is slowly beginning to ...

Portrait of an Alzheimer's Patient (7:15)

In the last week before my Grandfather went into an Alzheimer's care facility after 10 years of home care, I made this short ...

Proposals for a Love Letter (Part 1) (4:00)

A close up and personal depiction of the artist's mothers' relationship with her elderly mother. (The artist's'...

Diana and Carrie (3:03)

The story of Diana and Carrie is one like many in the nation; a daughter taking care of an aging parent. What makes their story u...

Why We Can't Parent Our Parents (1:57)

I spent two decades caring for seven elders. I'm an author, speaker, columnist and blogger on the subject of elder care. My s...

Dammit, Dad! (02:57)

Short film written and shot in 6 hours as practice for film race. Subject is close to me since my sister drives my father's f...

Care at 100 (3:00)

This story is about a daughter named Josephine Triplett that caregives for her recently turned 100year old mom Gemelia Herring. T...

Mary's Boys (3:15)

At age 91, Mary Mitchell is still able to maintain her independence, continuing to live in her home in Farmington Michigan thanks ...

The Ghosts of John Jay High (4:28)

Seven bright and accomplished John Jay High seniors cry foul at being unfairly lumped in with the school’s thuggish past.

Taxi (6:29)

A Taxi driver in Huntsville, Alabama asks passengers how Americans should deal with racism, expulsion, and reparation issues.