This 2002 animated film by Haitian Canadian filmmaker Martine Chartrand takes us through Black history as a young boy hears stories from his grandmother. The gorgeous and bold images show scenes of village life, history of cultures on the African continent, the corruption and evil of slavery, work in the cotton fields, Emancipation, Industrial Revolution, fighting in world wars and the civil rights movement. It’s a beautiful, moving and graceful piece of art that tells history with a simple directness that gives the film immense power. It seems to have been animated by using a paint on glass technique in which certain parts of the image are erased and repainted to create frame by frame motion.
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Ride the Last of the Big Red Cars: 1961 Los Angeles Streetcar Documentary
Jeff Keen the British Film Artist Has Died
Paul Cézanne: The Artist’s Father Reading ‘L’Événement’ (1866)
The Drawings of Queen Victoria
Maria Popova at Brain Pickings has found a fascinating trove of drawings by England’s Queen Victoria. She is history’s longest reigning female monarch. It looks to me as though she enjoyed enlivening her letters with these wonderful little illustrations.
Line of Sight: A Film by Benny Zenga
You have to be young and crazy to ride this way. But it makes for an awesome film! This is a trailer for an upcoming documentary about bike messenger racers by Benny Zenga, made with helmet-cam footage taken by Lucas Brunelle over a ten year period.
Via Booooooom.com.