Wide Angle reports from the frontlines of the staggering refugee crisis that is unfolding as Iraqis flee their war-torn country at the rate of up to 50,000 people per month. Watch entire episode online.
Animation reigns this week at Reel 13. You voted for your favorite, now find out which film won. Watch now…
Some 300 miles off Costa Rica is Cocos Island, a tiny Pacific outpost that was once a favorite haunt of pirates. Cocos is beset by powerful ocean currents that churning the waters nearby into an undersea storm. Welcome to Shark Mountain. Watch the episode now.
Simultaneous to its broadcast on Reel 13, ‘Cult of Sincerity’ filmmakers will screen it at a Williamsburg bar. (8/23, 11:15pm, + 2 rebroadcasts). This film is also the first full-length movie fully streamed on Youtube. See details…
Take a look at the potential VP candidates for the Republican Party. You can read more about frontrunners Pawlenty, Thune, Lieberman, Romney, and Ridge, and watch interviews with them from Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley.
A profile of political painter Leon Golub and his wife, the prominent anti-war and feminist artist, Nancy Spero. Originally aired as just ‘Golub’ in 1990, the film was updated and lengthened in 2004. Watch now.
Patricia J. Williams, a professor of law at Columbia U. and a lawyer in CA, writes The Nation column “Diary of a Mad Law Professor.” She speaks here about race and gender in the 2008 presidential primaries, as well as the use of language in the construction of political arguments.
Since the war began, more than 2 million Iraqis have fled their country. Watch an interview with Bashar Ja’afari, the Syrian ambassador to the U.N. about the situation, also follow a refugee family in Portland, OR as they try to start their lives over.
Some doctors are now proposing what’s being called “slow medicine,” i.e. letting nature take its course rather than aggressively fighting diseases that sometimes accompany old age. Watch.
An MRI is a huge magnet, sucking metallic objects into its maw. But they needed to film the process… so how did the team shoot the scene? Read the Spark Blog to find out. (also watch video).
