Memories from the Dept. of Amnesia
Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection.
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Image Union, episode 0818
Black and white film documenting a rapidly fading Jewish community in rural Romania. The film is treated like a diary piece with the photographer recounting his experiences living in the village in voiceover while we see images of daily life and of the elderly people who make up the town.
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Image Union, episode 0825
A collection of films and videos from the 1986 Women in the Director’s Chair Festival.
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Image Union, episode 1113
An episode of Image Union featuring two short documentary films. The first, called, “Universal Hotel” is a diary / documentary about one filmmaker’s research of Nazi medical experiments in the prison camp at Dachau. The second, “Growing Up Multiracial” is a conversation between a group of people with multiracial backgrounds.
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Inside North Korea: An African-American’s Journal
Andrew Jones travels to North Korea with a group of African Americans called “People to People” in an effort to learn more about the country. Once there, his mission for the tape becomes dispelling negative American myths about North Korea.
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Image Union, episode 0204: Yanomami
Image Union episode featuring “The Laughing Alligator” by Juan Downey. Color video. A video art piece examining Downey’s experience living with the Yanomami Indians of the Amazon Rainforest.
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Image Union, episode 0428
Episode of Image Union featuring the work “Love Tapes” by Wendy Clarke. “Love Tapes” is a collection of videos from an experiment in which people were allowed to sit alone in a cubicle, only with a video camera and monitor, and talk about love for three minutes. Hundreds of people participated in this experiment, and this collection features 8 full length tapes.