Hidden Histories: Workshop on Participatory Community Media
Filmmaker Louis Massiah will show excerpts from 50 years of experiments in participatory community media – a unique form of documentary produced with communities and subjects. These works emerge out of places confronting urgent issues, and involve collaboration, negotiation, and a shared vision, allowing communities
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to render their own analysis of the world. Media becomes a tool for essential democratic discourse, change, and a way to confront power. Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center that provides production workshops to community groups and emerging independent media makers. Co-Sponsored by the Hunter College departments of Art and Art History, Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and English.