Genres Video, Film & Radio

ACLU-NJ: Automated Injustice

ACLU of New Jersey Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Automated Injustice Project: a series of animated shorts to explain how government use of algorithms can perpetuate racial bias, with no opportunity or due process to challenge unjust decisions. Read More

The SCRIABIN SONATAS Reimagined, Part 1

Akselrud, Elina

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

This Intertwining Arts project is a blend of live piano performance of the first five Piano Sonatas by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) and a simultaneous projection of artistic video collages, with the Planet Earth and humanity's impact on it as the main subject matter. It was premiered in June'19. Read More

Night Sky

Alison

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Two girls search for help after their car breaks down in the desert and discover portals to other dimensions, sound chambers and the magic of wanderlust. Read More

“The Power of Good Will: African Americans and Jews together for Civil Rights”

Alliance of Ethics & Art Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Interviews with Blacks and Jews who fought for equality, North and South—even risking death--are powerful evidence of what Eli Siegel, founder of the education Aesthetic Realism, identified: "the force of ethics” working in people throughout history. Read More

Enduring Alliances: Jewish Refugee Scholars & Black Colleges in the South

Alliance of Ethics and Art, Inc.

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Original research/interviews reveal how Black colleges in the segregated South (1930s-60) saved the lives of Jewish Refugee Scholars and their families from the Nazi Holocaust by offering them jobs, after US quotas were met. These Enduring Alliances continue today. Read More

“If I Had a Trillion Dollars” Youth Film Festival

American Friends Service Committee - IHTD Film Festival

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The "If I Had A Trillion Dollars" youth film festival asks youth ages 23 years old and younger, “If YOU had the power to choose, how would you spend 1 trillion dollars? What could that money do for your family, for your community?" Read More

Accession

and Tamer Hassan , Armand Yervant Tufenkian

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

In this 16mm travelogue, Tamer Hassan and Armand Yervant Tufenkian trace a collection of letters, originally written to accompany seed packets sent between friends and families, across the U.S. Read More

Entropy

Anna Pasztor

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

“Entropy” is a three-channel video installation, which treats the topic of exploitation of physical labor. The installation was included in the “Expanding Art: an art and technology exhibition” and presented at Governors Island, at Harvestworks’ Gallery in the fall of 2019. Read More

Looking Backward

Balcom, Ben

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Filmed on the former grounds of Black Mountain College, Looking Backward is a brief elegy to the legacy of a utopian college and other impossible projects. Read More

RED FATHER

Beck-Friedman, Tova

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

RED FATHER is the story of the rise and fall of Bernard Ades. It is the story of a Communist lawyer, from fighting for civil rights in the U.S. and against fascism in Spain, to the dark days of the blacklist that ended his stellar career. Read More

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