If television doesn’t rethink itself beyond entertainment, the medium will definitely become useless. What use can we make of television? Is there any potential in a utilitarian approach to the most popular mass media? Can television be used to treat and cure social diseases, such as racism? Will television constitute a base for our utopias; this place where finally we will be able to physically situate an exemplary society, where white and black, gay and straight, Israelis and Palestinians, for example, can finally live in peace together?
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This documentary is about racism; about how men, women and children suffer from discrimination in everyday life. In 1959 white American writer JH Griffin turned himself…
Black like me
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This short film challenges the stereotypical portrayal of First Nations peoples in the media. Thomas King narrates this spoken-word short that offers an insight of how…
I'm not the indian you had in mind
From UPF
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In the summer of 2006, Jerusalem was to host, for the first time, the World Gay Pride gathering, which was to culminate in the traditional gay pride parade. The planned…
Jerusalem is proud to present
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