Explores tensions surrounding white participation in Hip-Hop. For some, it is an example of cultural progress. For others, it is just another case of cultural appropriation
In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York mounted a major exhibit called “Harlem On My Mind.” There was just one thing wrong: the show had no work by African-American artists. The “Harlem on My Mind” fiasco is emblematic of the barriers Black artists have faced when…
I have been making a film about my own experience as a victim of child abuse and subsequent Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I touch on topics of how to deal with the Trauma and CPTSD through therapy of using photography, painting, film and text. From child abuse to drug abuse, from dealing…
It is arguably the most famous photograph in motorcycling. In 1948 a man, wearing only a bathing suit and shoes, stretched prone on a speeding motorcycle and set the world’s motorcycle land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the United States. While the photograph was snapped in less…
Eine Filmreihe gegen Rassismus Die Filme lassen auf der einen Seite Schwarze junge Menschen und PoC zu Wort kommen. Erzählt werden ihre rassistischen Verletzungen in der Vergangenheit, ihre Wut und ihr Wunsch nach Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit, ihre Motivation, sich zu zeigen und zu kämpfen…
Eine Filmreihe gegen Rassismus Die Filmreihe mit dokumentarischen und Kurzspielfilmen wurde von jungen BIPoC-Filmemachenden aus Wuppertal produziert. Themen der Filme sind Colorism, Interracial Liebesbeziehungen, Alltagsrassismus, Sexismus, Polizeigewalt, Straßennamen mit rassistischer Konnotation…
A film by PAUL ROBERTS. Although about top Aboriginal sportsmen, BLACK MAGIC is more than a film about sport. It is an account of the creative use of sport made by the Noongar people of Western Australia's south-west to advance their people's standing. Denied access to other areas of…
A film by Lena Karbe | DE FR 2022 The Black Mambas are South Africa‘s first all-female anti-poaching unit, chosen by the white and male-dominated conservation authorities. Their fight against poaching challenges the role of women (and men) in their communities and South African society at large. Available…
It’s ‘Silly Season’ in Mamba Valley and, like zombies from their graves, the heat draws black mambas from the shadows. They’re on the hunt for summer lodgings, but as some of the deadliest snakes on the planet, they’re not popular neighbours. Many will fall victim to a gun…
Directed by STEVE THOMAS. Produced by JOHN MOORE and STEVE THOMAS. More than a hundred years after the Tasmanian Aborigines were declared extinct, their descendants set out to reclaim the lost graves of their ancestors on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. The neglected burial site at Wybalenna (or…
Every year, some 30,000 primates, two-to-five million birds, and ten million reptile skins enter the Asian wild animal market, the third-largest illegal smuggling operation in the world. Photojournalist Patrick Brown goes deep inside this vast, dangerous world. He risks his own personal safety to…
BLACK MEMORABILIA moves beyond perverse attractions and absolute objections to collectibles and antiques that serve as reminders of America’s troubled racial history. The film combats a set of generalized stereotypes by presenting an intimate and poetic portrait of the people who consume, manufacture…
