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the unknown sound collective’s work explores experimental sound, multimedia artas well as the interrelation between artistic practice, perceptionas well as social transformation through collaborative installations, residenciesas well as projects/releases in digital and physical media. there is an associated radio archive on wgxc and publications centering on experimental artists and their inner worlds. youtube.com/@un-known-sound-collective sites.google.com/view/unknown-sound-collective
Como Se Hace – How To
While Chicago’s carceral network of migrant “shelters” continues to put lives at risk, migrants are self-organizing and joining forces with local abolitionists to create community autonomy. Since October 2023, El Comedor Comunitario, a self-organized community kitchen and autonomous space by and for newly arrived Venezuelan migrants, have been feeding hundreds of people in community dinners […]
Bodies in Motion
Bodies In Motion is an experimental film that weaves together found footage and live, altered imagery of hands playing the piano to examine the intersections of feminism, labor, immigration, war, and history. The recurring gesture of the hands working, practicing and repeating becomes both intimate and political, echoing unseen forms of concern, discipline and survival […]
Kuije Kanan: Managalase Tattooing
The colonial government in 20th century Papua New Guinea required its indigenous communities to shift from subsistence food-growing and barter-and-trade to a cash-based market economy. This economic policy upset long-standing social and cultural practices of the Managalase people of Oro Province. This included pressure to stop indigenous adolescent male body tattooing, which had served as […]
Personas Desplazadas: The Miskitu Refugees from Nicaragua
This 1983 film by John Caldwell and Joel Sheesley examines the forced displacement of the Miskitu Indian Refugees from Nicaragua during the Reagan-era “Contra” war. In 1981, thousands of Miskitu Indians fled their ancestral homes in coastal Northeastern Nicaragua. The U.S. blamed the new leftist Sandinista government for driving the Miskitus out. Nicaragua denied this […]
Amor Vegetal: Our Harvest (La Cosecha Nuestra)
A community garden to address the nutritional needs of an Escondido neighborhood is the starting point for this multifaceted exploration of immigration, activism, media representation and self determination. To mitigate the detrimental effects that American fast food culture was having on the community, especially migrants, local organizers, including the filmmakers, took an innovative approach. They […]
Freak Street: The Migratory Patterns of Hippies on the Subcontinent
Documentarians John Caldwell and John L. Pudaite flip the script on immigration discourse as part of this illuminating look at migrants from Europe and America who relocated to South Asia during the heyday of the hippie counterculture. Artists, writers, musicians and others seeking alternative lifestyles in the 1960s and 1970s, they left their homes for […]
Land Hacks: Masculine Media Anxiety Disorder (Trumpworld)
In his latest experimental documentary, the two streams of Caldwell’s research interests come together in a rush. Parallel with an interrogation of Kern County, California, as a backdrop for Hollywood’s representations of rural communities — from John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath (1940) to Zach Galifianakis’ Baskets (2016–2019) — Caldwell carries out a deep dive […]
Boron Lockout
In 2010, the isolated town of Boron, California, in the high Mojave Desert became the center of a global labor action after transnational mining company Rio Tinto suddenly suspended its contract negotiations and locked out the workers of its borax mine there. In this “off-the-grid” town, ILWU miners protested at the mine gates but also […]