Video Art Postcards


	Video Art Postcards

zizzy

10-30-2007 9:40 PM

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slavery, racism, film making

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0562ee22-01bd-436f-9991-ac52f4dfb379/99B616FA-703A-4F1A-9CF5-5719B494B8FD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/10/29/your_london_slave_postcards_video_feature.shtml" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/10/29/your_london_slave_postcards_video_feature.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/10/29/your_london_slave_postcards_video_feature.shtml"><P>Video artists tend to deal with the here and now.  Historians, by definition, concentrate on the past.  Yet the two came together to uncover sites related to racism and anti-racism in the West India Docks area, when they worked over 5 days with teenagers from Newham.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/10/29/your_london_slave_postcards_video_feature.shtml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bbc.co.uk/img/602CB1AC-FBDD-414C-A8A1-E88AB01A00B9" alt="Video Postcard filmakers" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/10/29/your_london_slave_postcards_video_feature.shtml"><P>Each of the young participants produced a personal short video, or 'postcard', depicting their own interpretation of the slave trade. This resulted in the production of 33 unique films which will be screened at the Museum in Docklands from 10th November 2007.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/10/29/your_london_slave_postcards_video_feature.shtml"><TABLE class="article-text video"><CAPTION>Title: Video Art Postcards - </CAPTION><TBODY><TR class="video-link"><TH> </TH><TD><A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/london/realmedia/london_local/your_london_local/slave_postcards?size=16x9&bgc=990000&nbram=1&bbram=1" title="Watch a selection of the Video postcards" target="avaccesswin">Watch a selection of the Video postcards</A></TD></TR><TR class="duration"><TH scope="row">Length:</TH><TD>13:53 mins</TD></TR><TR class="date"><TH scope="row">Date:</TH><TD>November 2007</TD></TR><TR class="subject"><TH scope="row">Subject:</TH><TD>Slavery, Racism, Film making</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/10/29/your_london_slave_postcards_video_feature.shtml"><P>That's the date that the London, Sugar and Slavery gallery opens at the Museum of Docklands.  It's the first permanent exhibition on slavery in the capital and aims to challenge what people think they know about the transatlantic slave trade.  The new gallery will show how this terrible traffic made the London we know today.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/99B616FA-703A-4F1A-9CF5-5719B494B8FD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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