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Liberia??? Check! (3:17)

"Welcoming Bush, but waiting for Obama!" was one of many billboards splattered on the main road in Monrovia, welcoming P...

Back Home and Voting (3:00)

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

Battling Bias: Islam and the 2008 Election (4:04)

A Muslim man in Brooklyn walks into the poll knowing he can vote for president, but that he could never succeed as a candidate him...

Media Circus (Previously Titled: Election Fatigue) (3:26)

I’m a 26 year old filmmaker in Jackson, MS. I am an African American working class woman from a middle class family. I am the ...

My Best Friend for Congress (4:06)

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...

Green Collar Jobs (2:47)

In the past few years Americans have been faced with an increasing amount of problems from rising gas prices, the Iraq War, the Ho...

Voting Schmoting (Previously Titled: The Decision of Whether and How to Vote) (4:27)

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

Mi Otro Yo (Previously Titled: Declaration of Policy) (3:01)

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

Uncle Sam (Previously Titled: Uncle Sam Lives!) (3:38)

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...

Faith and Circumstance (2:48)

The separation of church and state is a corner stone value of the United States of America, but completely separating church and s...

Competing Thoughts (Rough Cut) (7:03)

Using pickup soccer as a microcosm of our globalized culture, this video essay explores the world of competition.

The Legend of the End of the World (Rough Cut) (03:32)

Somewhere near the Lakhota Badlands, an old woman makes a blanket out of porcupine quills.

Kafka-2-Go (Rough Cut) (09:49)

Here’s a dream for your iPod: A visual manifestation of Franz Kafka's Fragments in which the narrator awakens on a tram, pu...

Bi-Racial Hair (Rough Cut) (4:14)

13 year-old Zora’s poem “Bi-racial Hair” offers a satirical look at the racism facing African Americans of mixed ethnicity.

Reparation Blues (Rough Cut) (4:10)

A visual poem on reparations for the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, based on Ghail Rhodes-Benjamin's work of the same title.

Taxi (Rough Cut) (03:24)

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

Swim (Rough Cut) (4:06)

Animation and photography illustrate Jearld Ambrose's memories of swimming at segregated Atlantic Beach in South Carolina.

The Ghosts of John Jay High [Formerly 'Thug School'] (Rough Cut) (3:10)

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

The Birth of War (Rough Cut) (4:15)

The idea of war is so essential to the history mankind, yet is so foreign to the innocence we experience as children, or is it?

Sonny's Letters From the War (Rough Cut) (3:37)

Pvt. Walter “Sonny” Pyrih, as remembered through his sincere and touching letters.

Oh Johnny (Rough Cut) (4:03)

Elizabeth Patterson tells the story of the loss of her husband Johnny, killed when the Ticonderoga was bombed at the end of WWII.

A Clearing in the Fog (Rough Cut) (3:04)

A moment of humanity in wartime from the life of Irving Sarot, WWII surgeon, as told by his grandson.

War Games (Rough Cut) (3:00)

A quirky, animated narrative that explores the author's childhood obsession with war, and how one accident changed that.