WORKING IN PROTEST

Working in Protest features a collection of footage shot across America from 1987 to 2017 . As seen from the point of view of activists, the film captures the discourse of modern political protest.

ALL THE RAGE

Using a first-person approach to explore the work of renowned physician Dr. John Sarno and his radical methods to treating back pain, ALL THE RAGE examines the connections between emotions and health. Through interviews with Sarno, esteemed patients, and experts, the film invites viewers to profoundly rethink our approach to healthcare.

This morning, I started to write a post about the evolution of humanity’s relationship to photography. Then, kind of like technological innovation, it spiraled off in several competing directions. That’s not such a problem for me, but it does push up against systematic expectations of communication; something that I typically struggle with. I’m going to go ahead and start with......

WHEN HEALERS ARE AHEAD OF HISTORY While historians credit Louis Pasteur with articulating the germ theory of disease, many others came before him who began to tease out the ideas that led to this deeper understanding of illness. One of these doctors, the 18th century physician Ignatz Semmelweis, spent much of his time taking care of women who developed puerperal fever......

Humans have brains that are capable of complex thoughts about the future and the past. This gives us the ability to both plan, as well as fall into the abyss of regret. This brain has incredible powers to shape our reality, and language is one of the many tools we use to carve out meaning from the things that we......

MALLS ACROSS AMERICA

Throughout the 1980s, as America’s downtown districts declined in importance and the “big-box” stores began their slow march across the country, malls became increasing central to American popular culture, dominating the social life of a large swath of the population. In 1989 Michael Galinsky, a twenty-year-old photographer, drove across the country recording this change: the spaces, textures and pace that defined this era.