Egyptian cartoonist George Bahgoury discusses the problems with being creative in Egypt where a nation seems to want to propel itself into the past by treating religion as if it is something new and by restricting women and beauty itself. I like the way this man talks.
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.
Here is a 1961 documentary film about the last ten days of the Red Car commuter train in Los Angeles. Alan Fishel filmed an entire run of the soon to be mothballed Red Car on the Pacific Electric Long Beach Line. It begins its journey at the Sixth and Main Street station in downtown L.A.
