Ook als docent is het leuk om mee te doen als er op school een filmfestival gehouden wordt... Het thema voor het 1e Pieter Nieuwland Filmfestival was dromen. Onze inzending:
De beloning: een Pieter voor beste camerawerk, en een avond vol prachtige opgedirkte leerlingen. Geweldig. Met dank aan een paar heel enthousiaste collega's! En Walid natuurlijk, voor het winnende camerawerk...
Last year, some crazy people made this:
Now, they're back with this:
Isn't it awesome?
... but Photographs of Your Junk (will be publicized!).
In the 1950s, in a racially segregated US, psychologist Kenneth Clark performed an experiment with black kids. He wanted to measure the impact of racism on their self-image. They had to choose between a black doll and a white doll. Now, 50 years later, someone repeated the experiment. The video below (in English) is of that experiment, with some footage from the original test. It’s an excerpt from a short documentary called ‘A Girl Like Me’ by Kiri Davis (which you can watch here).
The past few days have had me watch with awe, horror and hope the revolution in Egypt. A country I have never visited, and of whom I only know very few citizens personally, yet what's happening now evokes stronger feelings than whatever else is going on at the moment. I've been in awe at the strength of the demonstrators gathered in Tahrir square. I have been horrified by the international (political) reactions, which seem as ready as always to sacrifice the Egyptian people in the name of 'stability'. And time and again, watching the people come back to that square, giving me hope that something else is possible.
It's not time to look back yet, because it's not over. May the Egyptian people be strong enough to get their country back. TaHya Masr [long live Egypt]!
For a closer look, I recommend visiting Sarah Carr's blog Inanities.
