Tongues Untied
Troubadours presents a musical performance by the Nicaraguan folk singing group, Camayoc, which means “messenger” in Nahuatl, the language of ancient indigenous people in Central America. Groupo Camayoc taped this performance with Julia Lesage and Chuck Kleinhans outdoors in Estelí, Nicaragua, in September 1987. They play both their own songs and those of Carlos Mejía Godoy and Pablo Milanés.
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Jane Aaron takes us on a tour of Hiroshima, Japan in 1989.
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Jane Aaron tours everything from Pachinkos to Ryoan-ji in Japan.
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Part one of Jane Aaron’s trip to Hiroshima, Japan. In this section, Aaron visits Peace Memorial Park and Mount Misen.
Pilot for the award-winning TV series The 90’s. This episode features the following segments:
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s shot by Skip Blumberg. A variety of everyday scenes are pictured: African American at-risk youth read poems predicting the state of affairs in the 1990s. A woman feeds squirrels on a park bench in England. Most of the video is from a baseball game between the Cuban national team and the Indians [?] in Granada, Nicaragua.
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Skip Blumberg talks with poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron in Harlem about race and racism. “What I meant by the phrase ‘the revolution will not be televised’ was, the first revolution takes place in your mind. …It’s not something you can catch on film. …It’ll just be something that you see and you just realize, ‘Hey, I’m on the wrong page.'”