Genres Video, Film & Radio
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ACLU-NJ: Automated Injustice
ACLU of New Jersey Foundation
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Automated Injustice Project: a series of animated shorts to explain how government use of algorithms can perpetuate racial bias, with no opportunity or due process to challenge unjust decisions. Read More
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- Website: www.aclu-nj.org
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The SCRIABIN SONATAS Reimagined, Part 1
Akselrud, Elina
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
This Intertwining Arts project is a blend of live piano performance of the first five Piano Sonatas by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) and a simultaneous projection of artistic video collages, with the Planet Earth and humanity's impact on it as the main subject matter. It was premiered in June'19. Read More
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- Website: https://intertwiningarts.org
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Night Sky
Alison
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
Two girls search for help after their car breaks down in the desert and discover portals to other dimensions, sound chambers and the magic of wanderlust. Read More
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- Website: www.alisonodaniel.com
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“The Power of Good Will: African Americans and Jews together for Civil Rights”
Alliance of Ethics & Art Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Interviews with Blacks and Jews who fought for equality, North and South—even risking death--are powerful evidence of what Eli Siegel, founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, identified: "the force of ethics” working in people throughout history. Read More
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- Website: http://www.allianceofethicsandart.org
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Enduring Alliances: Jewish Refugee Scholars & Black Colleges in the South
Alliance of Ethics and Art, Inc.
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
Original research/interviews reveal how Black colleges in the segregated South (1930s-60) saved the lives of Jewish Refugee Scholars and their families from the Nazi Holocaust by offering them jobs, after US quotas were met. These Enduring Alliances continue today. Read More
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- Website: www.Allianceofethicsandart.org, www.Allianceofethicsandart.net
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“If I Had a Trillion Dollars” Youth Film Festival
American Friends Service Committee - IHTD Film Festival
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The "If I Had A Trillion Dollars" youth film festival asks youth ages 23 years old and younger, “If YOU had the power to choose, how would you spend 1 trillion dollars? What could that money do for your family, for your community?" Read More
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- Website: http://ihtd.org
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Entropy
Anna Pasztor
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
“Entropy” is a three-channel video installation, which treats the topic of exploitation of physical labor. The installation was included in the “Expanding Art: an art and technology exhibition” and presented at Governors Island, at Harvestworks’ Gallery in the fall of 2019. Read More
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- Website: https://annapasztor.wixsite.com/annapasztor
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Looking Backward
Balcom, Ben
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
Filmed on the former grounds of Black Mountain College, Looking Backward is a brief elegy to the legacy of a utopian college and other impossible projects. Read More
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- Website: benbalcom.com
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RED FATHER
Beck-Friedman, Tova
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
RED FATHER is the story of the rise and fall of Bernard Ades. It is the story of a Communist lawyer, from fighting for civil rights in the U.S. and against fascism in Spain, to the dark days of the blacklist that ended his stellar career. Read More
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- Website: http://tbfstudio.com/red_father.html