Design Arts

Content Project

Five Blocks is a journey through the trials and tribulations of a community struggling to transform from “skid row” into a vibrant neighborhood filled with promise and hope. A determined yet shaky coalition must redeem the area without casting aside the poor and underserved. It may be their last chance.

 

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For six decades, Lanzi Candy Company was one of dozens of family-run confectioneries that, along with candy giants Brach’s, Mars, and Wrigley, helped make Chicago the undisputed Candy Capital of the World. Now, 25 years after Lanzi’s candy was last produced in Chicago, local businessman Jerry Ostermann is determined to bring Lanzi’s Cashew Nut and Rice Crunch back to the city. One problem: he has neither the recipe nor the machinery to make it.

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With film and virtual reality, Always in Season takes an integrated transmedia approach to telling the story of the lingering impact of almost a century of lynching African Americans until the mid-1960s.  Our documentary feature highlights the emotional journeys of relatives of the victims, perpetrators and spectators who are turning harm to hope with grassroots efforts towards reconciliation and restorative justice, and our virtual world locale, Always in Season Island, extends the film’s message by giving audiences an experiential look at the social climate that made this form of racial terrorism possible.

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"Television can be better than television is", this educational, historical and inspirational documentary about the TV LAB at Thirteen/WNET (1972-1984) reminds us. While the Internet and digital technology allow anyone today to create and distribute video, what is missing is the strong commissioning editor and collaborative atmosphere ofthe TV LAB that nurtured memorable video art, revolutionary documentary, experimental drama and led to extraordinary careers.

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Ipuina Kontatu: The Basque Way is a documentary which explores 25 centuries of Basque culture and considers its preservation as a tale about the twin possibilities of tradition and innovation. The dramatic struggle of adoption and adaptation by which Basque culture has flourished while preserving its ancient roots offers a paradigm by which to consider the essential core of cultural identities and their situation in our modern and global society.

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ARC OF LIGHT: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss is a documentary film about an artist, architect, and designer who has been an exponent of Modernism devoting her life to the creation of art that explores the fascinating intersections of art, nature, science, mathematics, and technology. The film explores the range of her work from architectural commissions to painterly and digitally-based studies of color and light, and Utah-based public art commissions that tell stories of the human condition.

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During World War II, the Navy invited women to serve at an equal rank and pay scale to men. The documentary/multimedia project Homefront Heroines follows the stories of these women, revealing a hidden history about America's "greatest generation."

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SNAKEBIT is a 1 hour documentary program for PBS broadcast in 2010 that chronicles the living legacy of the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio, the educational design/build program he founded in Hale County, Alabama to provide “charity” architecture that is both environmentally sustainable and nurturing for the soul.