THE PROPOSAL follows conceptual artist Jill Magid as she develops a radical project to explore artistic legacy. At its heart is the work of the Pritzker Prize-winning Mexican architect Luis Barragán, which is aggressively “protected” and kept from the public by its copyright holders.…
—For Continuing Medical Education Use Only— Set against the backdrop of the physician shortage and opioid epidemic in rural America, THE PROVIDERS follows three healthcare providers in northern New Mexico. They work at El Centro, a group of safety-net clinics that offer care to all…
DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY: T. Lahusen, T. McDonald, A. Gershtein, A. Nikitin CAMERA: A. Gershtein 46 minutes; color; Russian with English subtitles; digital video; Canada, September 2008 (first cut: 2005) A Canadian tribute to the power of Soviet and Russian cinema. “Cinema Paradiso Soviet…
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional…
Ellen Bialystok, Professor of Psychology at York University, is a world-leading expert on the effects of bilingualism on cognitive processes across our lifespan. This wide-ranging conversation examines how Ellen discovered differences in the development of essential cognitive and language abilities for…
Four young people between 13 to 15 years from four parts of the world, speak about their lives. Four young people in an age range of 13 to 15 years speak on this tape. One is Euro/American, one South African, one comes from Uganda and one from Pakistan. They talk freely of their feelings about growing…
Young people from different countries talk about growing up. Young people from India, Botswana, South Africa and England talk about their lives. Significant cultural differences are demonstrated although all are involved with the life tasks associated with adolescence. Attitudes to parents, friends,…
Interviews with young people from Africa and the Caribbean Two young people from African countries, an Afro-Caribbean and an Afro-Caribbean/English person, talk on this topic. Characteristics demonstrated include sibling rivalry, attitudes to parents, feelings about the opposite sex, the importance…
Two Pakistani and two English adolescents talk about themselves. Areas explored include attitudes to parents, the sadness of divorce, the strong dislike of stepparents, their emerging sense of self, the importance of friends and the significance of losing them, freedom and constraints, wanting the be…
Four very different people talk about their problems and relationships. A divorced Englishwoman suffering from schizophrenia talks about her life, her drug dealings and drug trips, her times in prison, her attempts to find a satisfactory relationship, her hallucinations and her hopes for a new life.…
A Malaysian, and African and two Englishwomen talk about life in their forties. A Malaysian, and African and two Englishwomen from substantially different backgrounds talk about life in their forties marriages, children, shattered dreams, new opportunities and racism. Part of a series of programmes…
Three people with problems talk about their lives. Does life begin at 40 or is this the start of the steady downward slope? A long-term unemployed Scot talks of the dramatic effects that this has had upon himself and his wife; the changes in the perception he has of himself as a person and upon their…
