Category Archives: Video Art and Peace

Today Nozaire, Ansie, Cholemy, Joannie, Yassir and Reuben wrote the song for their video about treating people with AIDS with compassion. Sung in both Creole and English, we’ll be recording this at BCAL’s studio after the spring break.

Not all taste buds are the same. Students try a buffet of Swedish candies. The strangest ones: Chocolate bars filled with licorice ooze and SALT covered licorice chews.

Inspired by Hollis Frampton’s film Zorn’s Lemma, students walked through the neighborhood photographing signs for each letter of the alphabet. Just within two blocks we were able to find a word on a sign that started with every letter of … Continue reading →

Continuing our CUP workshop, we worked on projects to insert back into the local stores we visited. The masks we made for the 99 cent store were also useful for some impromtu carnival celebrations.

A photographic portrait of Crown Heights.

Students visited three local stores in the neighborhood: a frame store, a barbershop and a 99 cent store. Divided up into teams, we drew pictures of the stores, took photographs and interviewed shop owners about their businesses.

On February 10 we went to Chelsea in Manhattan to Paula Cooper Gallery. We saw the Christian Marclay show. There were two exhibits in the gallery. At the main desk there was a huge book shelf with a ladder that … Continue reading →

Celeste and Shauna interview Chelomy, Joannie and Ansie about their reactions to the earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath.

would you change with it? Mind-boggling shifts in biology…that’s the theme of the video we are working on for one of our new videos.

Have you ever had an AIDS test? Would you? What’s the most common STDs out there? How do you and how do you not get them? Students are in the process of interviewing the Paul Robeson High School community on … Continue reading →