The following documentary was produced in the Fall 2019 “Documentary Traditions and Human Rights” course with Peter Lucas. Para Soledad is a film I made with Soledad Mantilla in December of 2019. I wanted to celebrate her life and all […]
Last year, The New School celebrated a birthday. And it was a special one: its 100th anniversary. In 1919, a group of intellectuals, including the philosopher John Dewey, were frustrated by the traditionalism of American universities and founded The New […]
Nuclear weapons have been around since 1945, when the Manhattan Project finally created a weapon that would end World War II. Since then, these weapons were the subject of Americans’ fear during the Cold War, and then both a taboo […]
Student Andrew Long spent 9 weeks in Cuba as part of the International Field Program. While there, he documented his experiences and reflections through colorful drawings, collages, and writing. Below he shares pages from Buscador, a booklet he put together […]
The lack of affordable, accessible and quality housing has always been a major concern in Cape Town. In the past, researchers have focused their work on the most common forms of poor housing conditions including sanitation, lack of potable water, […]
We live in a fantastically complex age in which we must analyze and challenge the very foundations of modernity. Our ultimate authorities invest a majority of its funds in the military and do little to support the safety and life […]
While the United States (US) sanctions regime continues to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report this month on the human rights situation unfolding in Venezuela. What could have been […]
“Years later I discovered that the United States had been crossed thousands of times by frightened Black children traveling alone to their newly affluent parents in Northern cities, or back to grandmothers in Southern towns when the urban North reneged […]
I recently went to visit a friend in eastern Turkey. He lives in a smaller town of 76,000 people, which is surrounded by dry farmland. It was oppressively hot, and the heat radiating off of the pavement seemed to have […]
“Children of war,” a term that appears on numerous glossy magazine covers, an intriguing subject for after party discussions, while decorating the white washed walls of elite circles encompasses insurmountable tragedy and violence. War looms large in the South with […]
When our IFP group met during the Spring semester for Amharic class, I our coordinators described that the two months tend to be a three-part emotional roller coaster, starting with pure excitement and joy of being in a new place […]
As the IFP experience comes to a close, our small team of 10 has spent the last few weeks in Rio filming, photographing, and making as many connections as possible. While each of us is engaged in individual research and […]
