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Category Archives: A: New/Just Added
Room Without A View
The film is a kaleidoscopic gaze on the exploitative working conditions experienced by migrant domestic workers hired under the Kafala system in Lebanon.
Germany/Austria, 73 min
Mississippi Triangle (1984)
MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE (1984) Newly Digitized
by Roselly Torres
a documentary film about race and labor in the Mississippi Delta directed by Christine Choy, Worth Long and Allan Siegel.
About MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE
This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese community, originally brought to the South to work on cotton plantations after the Civil War, is framed against the harsh realities of civil rights, religion, politics, and class in the South. Rare historical footage and interviews of Delta residents are combined to create this unprecedented document of ethnic relations in the American South. A Third World Newsreel production.
MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE was scanned from a 16mm release print on the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Scanity HDR film scanner. TWN thanks Andrew Boyer who graded the final DPX sequence and Simon Drake for his assistance.
“….ethnicity, acculturation, racism and interracial associations, poverty, social and economic change, community development and much more.”
– Prof. Neil McMillen, Univ. of Southern Mississippi
“A two-hour immersion in the Mississippi Delta, creating, with no other exposition than is contained in images and the words of persons being interviewed, a rich documentary brew.”
– Library Journal
How to Order: https://bit.ly/3dZChzz
Press Kit: https://twn.org/catalog/guides/mississippi-triangle-press-kit.pdf
Town Destroyer
What happens when art no longer reflects current societal views? This is the focus of Town Destroyer, a film about the New Deal muralist Victor Arnaut off’s 1936 work, “The Life of Washington,” a high school mural that became a media firestorm. Some students, parents, and observers found the depictions of slavery and Native American genocide offensive, demanding that the San Francisco School Board remove or destroy the mural. Identity politics gone off the rails—or a justified blow to a lingering American “colonized mentality”? Filmmakers Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman feature students, historians, artists, activists—(and the Living New Deal, which strongly opposed censoring the mural.)
One Driver, One Mic
film on Austin taxi cooperative; chronicles the creation and struggles of ATX Coop Taxi, a driver-owned taxi cooperative formed in Austin, Texas to compete with Uber and Lyft.
The film features Biju Mathew of the National Taxiworkers Alliance and a few scenes were filmed at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Austin.
Here’s a link to the film’s trailer: https://vimeo.com/kvasudevan/odomtrailer
Krishnan Vasudevan
Assistant Professor in Visual Communication
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
University of Maryland, College Park
Phone: 301 405 8803
Director, One Driver, One Mic
Songwriter, Danger Light
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