Presenters: Christine Peng, Christine Almeida and Elizabeth Madera
In this intergenerationally-led, hands-on workshop, participants will learn about the film concept of montage (french for "putting together"), where meaning doesn't exist in one image, but rather in the constructed sequence of images. When used in the classroom or for social justice organizing, montage opens up new possibilities for teaching and learning through media-production. We will look at Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez's short, "Now" (1964), a powerful montage on racial discrimination in the US that was constructed with still images, pirated newsreel and Lena Horne's famous song "Now," that was banned in the US during the1960's for its call for struggle against racism.
We will then get to work together, combining our creativity and social justice groundings, to construct a group video montage. This workshop aims to inspire collective, hands-on video production, as a popular education method, in the spirit of the social justice movements & mediamakers that came before us.
