healing
Unhushed!
Posted December 6th, 2007 by InternThe Still Standing Project with Scribe Video Center
Production Facilitator - Iain Conliffe; Humanities Consultant - Biko Agonzino; Post Production - Brain Cook
This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.1 compilation DVD.
Before artist and community historian Beverly Collins-Roberts set to work researching the topic, few living people knew that Pomona Hall in Camden, New Jersey, now the headquarters of the Camden Historical Society, had been the "big house" of an 18th century slave plantation. Owned by Marmaduke Cooper, Camden's founder, the plantation spanned 400 acres and covered much of what is now the Parkside neighborhood of Camden. Unhushed!
Putting The Eye Of Record On It
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenProduced by Stepahnie Howland
A lucid, healing document emerges from the videomaker's deconstruction of her memories of abuse. The experimental narrative meditates and functions upon the premise that traumatic memories are encoded as an illogical melange of pictures, feelings and fears.
Stephanie Howland is a writer and mother who lives in Philadelphia.
Spring 1993 - 1993 Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, International House (Philadelphia, PA)