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GRITtv: Got Docs: Mountains that Take Wing
Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama are renowned activists, scholars, and friends. The documentary Mountains That Take Wing is a story of a friendship, captured in conversations between women who have taken part in nearly every major social movement of the 20th century. C. A. Griffith and H. L. T. Quan spent over a decade on this film, and we're happy to share a selection from it with you. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: Dec. 23 2010
Philippe Petit is probably best known for walking on a tightrope suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. ; He was arrested as soon as he came off the wire, but his act was captured in the Academy Award-winning film Man on Wire.
Petit has continued to perform on the high wire, as well as to draw, teach, and to challenge himself constantly. "If you are not taunted by artistic challenge at least once a day you're dead," he says.Philippe joins Laura in studio for a special conversation about his life's work, his challenges, and his desire to inspire people to do great works. He also took a GRITtv crew to Clic Gallery, currently hosting a show of his drawings and photographs from his master class in tightrope walking at the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics.Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama are renowned activists, scholars, and friends. The documentary Mountains That Take Wing
is a story of a friendship, captured in conversations between women who have taken part in nearly every major social movement of the 20th century.
GRITtv: Got Docs: The House That Herman Built
What kind of a house does a man who has lived in a 6' by 9' box for 30 years dream of? That's the provocative question asked by this week's Got Doc feature, The House That Herman Built. Herman Wallace, a member of the Black Panther party, has been in solitary confinement for over 38 years in the Louisiana prison system. In 2003, artist Jackie Sumell asked Herman this simple question, and this documentary traces the growth of Herman's house from art project toward reality.
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Elizabeth Streb has been called "superhuman" because her choreography is more extreme sport than dance performance. Pushing boundaries, testing limits, redefining pain and strength--this is what she does every day, and her work has received multiple awards, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award. In her new book from the Feminist Press, Streb explains how she came to dance as a method of expression, and why action matters. She joins Laura in studio for a special interview about action, dance, art and culture in society, and when it was that she first knew she wanted to fly. What kind of a house does a man who has lived in a 6' by 9' box for 30 years dream of? That's the provocative question asked by this week's Got Doc feature, "The House That Herman Built." Herman Wallace, a member of the Black Panther party, has been in solitary confinement for over 38 years in the Louisiana prison system. In 2003, artist Jackie Sumell asked Herman this simple question, and this documentary traces the growth of Herman's house from art project toward reality.
GRITtv: Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Bloody Lowndes
The symbol of the black panther was an export from Alabama. That's right. It didn't come from the streets of Oakland, but from the struggle for freedom in the rural south, where the cat was once common and eventually became a symbol on ballots during the voting rights drive in Lowndes, Alabama. That is just one of the remarkable stories in Hasan Kwame Jeffries' new book, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt. A professor of history at Ohio State University, Jeffries discusses the legacy of the African-American struggle for freedom and the roots of the civil rights movement, which he traces back to the moment of emancipation.
GRITtv: Hasan Kwame Jeffries: Bloody Lowndes
The symbol of the black panther was an export from Alabama. That's right. It didn't come from the streets of Oakland but from the struggle for freedom in the rural south. That is just one of the remarkable stories in Hasan Kwame Jeffries' new book, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama?s Black Belt. A professor of history at Ohio State University, Jeffries discusses the legacy of the African-American struggle for freedom and the roots of the civil rights movement, which he traces back to the moment of emancipation.
