VIDEO CONTENT
The following visuals were featured in the video:
1. Image of a mural depicting “the school bureaucracy weighing on the student’s brain” taken by Tsedey Bogale, a law students enrolled in the Law School’s Visual Legal Advocacy Seminar run by Regina Austin.
Image of a resident of SCI Graterford, a facility of the PA Department of Corrections. This photo was taken by Harvey Finkle for the documentary Second Looks, Second Chances: Commutation by the Numbers, directed by Regina Austin.
2. Excerpts from Water & Sand (in production), a film by Tukufu Zuberi.
3. Archive Offering (Sanders Johnson, 2016): Images of Grace Sanders Johnson’s mixed media collage placed at the site of Extrea Jean Gilles's death in Cap Haïtien, Haiti. Gilles was killed by the U.S. military in May 1922. The collage was created from archival images that documented her death.
4. Excerpts from Four Days in May: Kingston 2010, an experimental documentary by Deborah A. Thomas, Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn, and Deanne M. Bell. This documentary explores the archives generated by state violence by focusing on the 2010 State of Emergency in West Kingston, Jamaica.
5. Stills from Sharon A. Hayes 2014 installation in Gwangju, South Korea.
6. Stills from Autonomía Alimentaría by Kristina Lyons, one of thirteen short films that form part of a popular education project called Cultivando un Bien Vivir en la Amazonia (Cultivating Living Well in the Amazon).
7. Still from the website penn.museum/sites/navajofilmthemselves, a site critiquing the Worth/Adair project, “Navajo Film Themselves.”
Still from the website penn.museum/sites/mattogrosso which features a case study on the use of sound technology in documentary history.
These web based archival projects are two of several devised by Kate Pourshariati, Film Archivist of the Penn Museum.
8. Still from Preserving Society Hill, a website that is part of a digital humanities project by Francesca R Ammon.
9. Cover of The Essay Film, a monograph by Timothy Corrigan.
10. Excerpt from Making Sweet Tea (October 2018 tentative release), a feature-length experimental/ethnographic documentary which follows the personal and scholarly trajectory of researcher and activist E. Patrick Johnson. This film is produced by John L. Jackson Jr., Nora Gross, and E. Patrick Johnson.
11. An image from an interdisciplinary production of an Aeschylus play (The Eumenides, the third play in the Oresteia trilogy) directed by Marcia Ferguson.
12. Photographs of University of Pennsylvania students working on films in Kenya with the Penn Cinema Studies Department under the guidance of Peter Decherney. See also Glimpses of Kalobeyei, a 360 video by Peter Decherney.
13. Photograph of Deborah A. Thomas presenting on the Center for Experimental Ethnography and the Tivoli Stories project at an Experimental Ethnography Workshop at the Rhizome Office in Shanghai, China.
14. Photograph from the 2017-18 SDP-PennGSE Film Program at William L. Sayre High School. The program is an ABCS (academically-based community service) course in which Penn students learn hands-on filmmaking and ethnographic methods and then spend a year collaborating with Philadelphia high schools to produce short films. The course is co-taught by Kathleen Hall and Amitanshu Das.
15. “Mural of the iconic WCK Band, pioneers of bouyon.” Photo by Timothy Rommen, 2012.
16. “Sakis Lapeau Kabwit band (carnival drumming) in Grandbay, Dominica.” Photo by Timothy Rommen, 2014.
The following were combined to create the sound for the video:
Audio excerpts from Pressure, Sound and Image, an experimental multimodal piece by Deborah A. Thomas, Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn, and Deanne M. Bell.
Excerpts from a sound piece by Kristina Lyons in collaboration with the Center for Historical Memory in Columbia. The piece was launched in April 2018 at an exposition called "Voices to Transform Colombia" at the International Book Fair in Bogotá, Colombia. It focuses on the history, everyday life, and community resistance in the midst of the social and armed conflict in PuertoGuzmán, Putumayo, a municipality in the Colombian Amazon.
Audio excerpt from Making Sweet Tea, a feature-length experimental/ethnographic documentary which follows the personal and scholarly trajectory of researcher and activist E. Patrick Johnson. This film is produced by John L. Jackson Jr., Nora Gross and E. Patrick Johnson.
Audio excerpts from Water & Sand, a film by Tukufu Zuberi. This music from Timbuktu, features Tuareg Griots singing the history of the area in the Tamasheq language.
1. Image of a mural depicting “the school bureaucracy weighing on the student’s brain” taken by Tsedey Bogale, a law students enrolled in the Law School’s Visual Legal Advocacy Seminar run by Regina Austin.
Image of a resident of SCI Graterford, a facility of the PA Department of Corrections. This photo was taken by Harvey Finkle for the documentary Second Looks, Second Chances: Commutation by the Numbers, directed by Regina Austin.
2. Excerpts from Water & Sand (in production), a film by Tukufu Zuberi.
3. Archive Offering (Sanders Johnson, 2016): Images of Grace Sanders Johnson’s mixed media collage placed at the site of Extrea Jean Gilles's death in Cap Haïtien, Haiti. Gilles was killed by the U.S. military in May 1922. The collage was created from archival images that documented her death.
4. Excerpts from Four Days in May: Kingston 2010, an experimental documentary by Deborah A. Thomas, Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn, and Deanne M. Bell. This documentary explores the archives generated by state violence by focusing on the 2010 State of Emergency in West Kingston, Jamaica.
5. Stills from Sharon A. Hayes 2014 installation in Gwangju, South Korea.
6. Stills from Autonomía Alimentaría by Kristina Lyons, one of thirteen short films that form part of a popular education project called Cultivando un Bien Vivir en la Amazonia (Cultivating Living Well in the Amazon).
7. Still from the website penn.museum/sites/navajofilmthemselves, a site critiquing the Worth/Adair project, “Navajo Film Themselves.”
Still from the website penn.museum/sites/mattogrosso which features a case study on the use of sound technology in documentary history.
These web based archival projects are two of several devised by Kate Pourshariati, Film Archivist of the Penn Museum.
8. Still from Preserving Society Hill, a website that is part of a digital humanities project by Francesca R Ammon.
9. Cover of The Essay Film, a monograph by Timothy Corrigan.
10. Excerpt from Making Sweet Tea (October 2018 tentative release), a feature-length experimental/ethnographic documentary which follows the personal and scholarly trajectory of researcher and activist E. Patrick Johnson. This film is produced by John L. Jackson Jr., Nora Gross, and E. Patrick Johnson.
11. An image from an interdisciplinary production of an Aeschylus play (The Eumenides, the third play in the Oresteia trilogy) directed by Marcia Ferguson.
12. Photographs of University of Pennsylvania students working on films in Kenya with the Penn Cinema Studies Department under the guidance of Peter Decherney. See also Glimpses of Kalobeyei, a 360 video by Peter Decherney.
13. Photograph of Deborah A. Thomas presenting on the Center for Experimental Ethnography and the Tivoli Stories project at an Experimental Ethnography Workshop at the Rhizome Office in Shanghai, China.
14. Photograph from the 2017-18 SDP-PennGSE Film Program at William L. Sayre High School. The program is an ABCS (academically-based community service) course in which Penn students learn hands-on filmmaking and ethnographic methods and then spend a year collaborating with Philadelphia high schools to produce short films. The course is co-taught by Kathleen Hall and Amitanshu Das.
15. “Mural of the iconic WCK Band, pioneers of bouyon.” Photo by Timothy Rommen, 2012.
16. “Sakis Lapeau Kabwit band (carnival drumming) in Grandbay, Dominica.” Photo by Timothy Rommen, 2014.
The following were combined to create the sound for the video:
Audio excerpts from Pressure, Sound and Image, an experimental multimodal piece by Deborah A. Thomas, Junior “Gabu” Wedderburn, and Deanne M. Bell.
Excerpts from a sound piece by Kristina Lyons in collaboration with the Center for Historical Memory in Columbia. The piece was launched in April 2018 at an exposition called "Voices to Transform Colombia" at the International Book Fair in Bogotá, Colombia. It focuses on the history, everyday life, and community resistance in the midst of the social and armed conflict in PuertoGuzmán, Putumayo, a municipality in the Colombian Amazon.
Audio excerpt from Making Sweet Tea, a feature-length experimental/ethnographic documentary which follows the personal and scholarly trajectory of researcher and activist E. Patrick Johnson. This film is produced by John L. Jackson Jr., Nora Gross and E. Patrick Johnson.
Audio excerpts from Water & Sand, a film by Tukufu Zuberi. This music from Timbuktu, features Tuareg Griots singing the history of the area in the Tamasheq language.