Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo
In March 2004, Beyondmedia collaborated with their longtime partner, Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM), to produce Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo, a series of art & education events on women and girls’ incarceration and its impact on families at Las Manos Gallery in Chicago. The event aimed to give voice to imprisoned women and girls through visual art, media, written and spoken word, and critical dialogue. This project featured Beyondmedia’s multimedia installation that recreates a prison cell through the eyes of its female prisoners together with live performances by former prisoners, an exhibition of art by women and girls in prison and an audio installation with family members of incarcerated women.
Through Beyondmedia’s Women and Prison program, incarcerated women and girls, former prisoners and their families use media arts to voice their stories, promoting public dialogue, healing and community organizing. Since 1997, Beyondmedia has collaborated extensively with women and girls in prison and after their incarceration to create interdisciplinary, multimedia educational forums on women and prison. Continue reading
3/11/21: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: DeeDee Halleck
March 11: Virtual screening/discussion with Paper Tiger TV founder and Deep Dish Satellite Network co-founder DeeDee Halleck, moderated by Avery LaFlamme from the University of Chicago Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Continue reading
2/25/21: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Julia Lesage
Feb 25: Virtual screening/discussion with filmmaker and scholar Julia Lesage, moderated by Salomé Skivirsky. Continue reading
Turning a Corner (press promo)
Turning a Corner tells the stories of people involved in the sex trade and their efforts to raise public awareness of systemic injustice and promote needed reforms. Created in a media activism workshop with over a dozen members of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), this groundbreaking film recounts their survival and triumph over homelessness, violence and discrimination, and gives rare insights into Chicago’s sex trade industry. The new version includes interview updates with many of the participants from the original film.
Through Beyondmedia’s Women and Prison program, incarcerated women and girls, former prisoners and their families use media arts to voice their stories, promoting public dialogue, healing and community organizing. Since 1997, Beyondmedia has collaborated extensively with women and girls in prison and after their incarceration to create interdisciplinary, multimedia educational forums on women and prison. Continue reading
Turning a Corner
Turning a Corner tells the stories of people involved in the sex trade and their efforts to raise public awareness of systemic injustice and promote needed reforms. Created in a media activism workshop with over a dozen members of Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), this groundbreaking film recounts their survival and triumph over homelessness, violence and discrimination, and gives rare insights into Chicago’s sex trade industry. The new version includes interview updates with many of the participants from the original film.
Through Beyondmedia’s Women and Prison program, incarcerated women and girls, former prisoners and their families use media arts to voice their stories, promoting public dialogue, healing and community organizing. Since 1997, Beyondmedia has collaborated extensively with women and girls in prison and after their incarceration to create interdisciplinary, multimedia educational forums on women and prison. Continue reading
2/11/21: Digitizing Your Personal Videos Workshop
From the 1980s to the 2010s, consumer-grade videotape and cameras were made available, and millions of people shot many hours of footage – from birthday celebrations to family vacations to their own home epics. This material is, in many homes, trapped on these old tapes, which now often reside in closets, basements, and storage bins, with no easy way to view them. In this workshop, Dan Erdman, video archivist at Media Burn, will show you how to best care for … Continue reading
