Podcasts about Thomas Allen Harris

Yale Professor Thomas Allen Harris & Film Director Jon Sesrie Goff

A review of "Through a Lens Darkly", a 2014 documentary directed by Thomas Allen Harris about the history of Black people in America both in front and behind the lens.   Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/through-a-lens-darkly-movie-review.

In today's episode, Che spoke to award-winning writer-producer-director and passionate storyteller/activist Alison Duke. Alison is committed to telling stories of resistance and change. Alison Duke has made life telling the stories of others, she rarely talks about herself but in this conversation, Che had a chance to discover some of the motivations behind this great Canadian Filmmaker, Storyteller and Producer. Recently, she co-wrote and co-produced the television documentary Mr. Jane and Finch (19) directed by Ngardy Conteh George which garnered two 2020 Canadian Screen Awards: the Donald Britain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary and Best Writing for a Documentary. During the same timeframe, she directed Cool Black North (19) a two-hour television documentary special for CityTV/Rogers about the unique and vibrant Canadian Black Community and its role in our country's contemporary identity. Alison discusses her unique path into documentary filmmaking and the relationship between starting off as an athlete and evolving into a filmmaker. She was even inducted into the University of Windsor Sports Hall of Fame in 2009 for the sport of basketball. She got her start directing and producing documentaries with the hip hop cult classic, Raisin' Kane: a rapumentary (00). From there she worked as a segment producer and field director on syndicated factual and lifestyle shows. Eventually, she made her way to social issue docs; A Deathly Silence (03). She also collaborates with other filmmakers as a producer; Andrew Nisker's Garbage: The Revolution Stars at Home (07), Dany Chiasson's My Joan of Arc (08) and Thomas Allen Harris's Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photography and the Emergence of a People. Inspired by Ava Duvernay, #metoo and the reality that opportunities for women behind the camera in Canada are long overdue, Alison hired five Black female Canadian directors to helm short films for the Akua Benjamin Legacy Project (16) which celebrates the legacies of Canadian-based black activists Dudley Laws, Charles Roach, Rosie Douglas, Marlene Green and Len and Gwen Johnson. And now Alison is more focused on fictional storytelling and movie making. And for the record, Che and Alison are third cousins, they met in their late teens. Take a listen to the conversation, tell us what you think and share the podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chemarvilleletstalk/message

"Memorializing History: A conversation About Monuments, Truth, and Justice," a virtual film screening and conversation with filmmaker CJ Hunt, Connecticut-based artist and educator Allison Minto MFA '20, Senior Lecturer in African American Studies and Film & Media Studies Thomas Allen Harris, and Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies David Blight. https://schwarzman.yale.edu/events/memorializing-history-conversation-about-monuments-truth-and-justice

New York-based filmmaker, Thomas Allen Harris sees the Black Family Photo album as a battleground for representation. It is where Black families have the freedom to present themselves as genuinely as possible. He is the creator of the documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People which was released in 2014. He is a filmmaker and artist whose work across film, video, photography, and performance illuminates the human condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality.

As hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh often say, "Stories like these are just a phone call away." Nicole picks up the phone and dials Doris Carey Graeber. We invite listeners to grab a good rocking chair and some lemonade to hear about the simple life in "God's country." Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris joins the conversation to tell us why we need to take our letters, photos and family heirlooms out of storage. 

Listen to Harlem legend, educator, mother, Rudean Leinaeng, as she talks about her new book Coal, War & Love, the Harlem Writers Guild, the Hall of Fame and more with special guest host historian and co-founder of Harlem Cultural Archives Glenn Hunter and host Danny Tisdale, on The Danny Tisdale Show.Rudean LeinaengBorn and raised in New York City, Rudean Leinaeng received a BA degree in Chemistry from Hunter College and an MS from New York University.  She was a professor at Bronx Community College where she taught for 30 years.  During the 1970s, Leinaeng lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for two years with her super talented sons Lyle and Thomas.  After participating in the struggle for a free South Africa during the 1980s as a member of Women for Racial and Economic Equality, she and her husband Pule Leinaeng, an African National Congress activist, took up residence in Bloemfontein, South Africa.  In 2002, she co-produced the acclaimed documentary film, Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela, which her son Thomas Allen Harris produced and directed.  The film centers on her husband and his young comrades who, in 1960, were the first group to leave Bloemfontein and go into exile.  In 2012, she was inducted into the Hunter College Hall of Fame for her activisSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/theharlemworldmagazinepodcast)

You're going to love my guest, Don Perry of the very successful new show on PBS, Family Pictures USA. It's about people, places, photographs and the stories that connect them. Family Pictures USA travels across America showing us the connection between family photographs and family stories. Links: Sign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel. Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation. About My Guest: Don Perry is the Executive Producer of the show and is a creative partner with award-winning filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris. Don has been nominated for an Emmy and a Peabody award. He won an NAACP Image Award for a Documentary Film, for Through A Lens Darkly that focused on African American photographers. About Maureen Taylor: Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She's the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany's top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.com Did you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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Thomas Allen Harris is a critically acclaimed, interdisciplinary artist who explores conceptions of family, identity, environmentalism, and spirituality in a participatory practice. Graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Biology and the Whitney Independent Study Program, member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and published writer/curator, Harris lectures widely on the use of media as a tool for social change with a keen recognition for its potential to organize social movements and impact the biological body. He currently holds a position at Yale University as a Senior Lecturer in African American and Film & Media Studies, where he is teaching courses titled “Family Narratives/Cultural Shifts” and “Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling”. He is also working on a new television show, Family Pictures USA, which takes a radical look at neighborhoods and cities of the United States through the lens of family photographs, collaborative performances, and personal testimony sourced from their communities. Family Pictures USA uses methodologies Harris and his team developed with Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, LLC (DDFR), a socially engaged transmedia project that has incorporated community organizing, performance, virtual gathering spaces, and storytelling into over 60 unique audio-visual events in over 50 cities. Harris will talk about his trajectory as a media artist that led to DDFR and his documentary film work, including Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, his 2015 film that was developed in tandem with DDFR. Through A Lens Darkly features leading Black cultural figures, scholars, and photographers sharing their archives with Harris in an exploration of the ways photography has been used as a tool of representation and self-representation in history, garnering an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary film, the Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award, and an Africa Movie Academy Award, among others. In conversation with MIT Professor Vivek Bald, Harris will reveal his process, experiences, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places. Immediately following a Q&A, participants will be invited to share images that represent their conceptions of family and engage in a collaborative workshop highlighting the impact of new technologies in community archiving practices.

Thomas Allen Harris is a many-media artist who explores family and identity in what he calls a “participatory model of filmmaking” that he’s been pioneering for nearly three decades now. He’s an accomplished filmmaker and public television producer. His documentary Through a Lens Darkly premiered on Independent Lens on PBS a few years ago, and was nominated for a National Emmy.----more----Born in the Bronx and raised in New York City and Tanzania, Thomas is a graduate of Harvard College and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. He’s made a number of other feature and short films in his life, and he lectures and teaches widely on media arts and other topics including an upcoming course around Family Pictures USA as a Senior Lecturer at Yale University. Oh, and by the way he’s the host and creator of Family Pictures USA – a new public tv show that explores lives through the lens of the family photo album.

Family Pictures USA is a television series and transmedia project that explores neighborhoods and cities through the lens of the family photo album. Hosted by Thomas Allen Harris, this innovative television series enlarges our understanding of history, our diversity, and our shared values. Thomas Allen Harris is a critically acclaimed artist who uses film, video, photography, and performance to explore family and identity. Harris' work has been broadcast internationally and exhibited at major festivals, museums and galleries across the globe. A graduate of Harvard College, and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, he has received numerous awards including an NAACP Image Award and African Oscar, as well as Guggeheim, Rockfeller, and United States Artist fellowships. He lectures and teaches widely on media arts, visual literacy, and personal archiving at such institutions as Yale, Dartmouth, University of California, and many others. www.familypicturesusa.com  

Host Scott Fisher opens the show with Jessica Taylor, founder and president of Legacy Tree Genealogists. Jessica is part of a group of genealogical businesses that is sponsoring a contest at RootsTech this year that could score you some amazing family history products. (Yes, including DNA kits!) Then, David Allen Lambert , Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and AmericanAncestors.org, shares some “family histoire news.” He tells two tales from the ashes… literally. First is the story of a British woman who has admitted having a certain taste for her mother’s ashes. (You won’t believe it!) Then, another woman has been caring for the ashes of a woman who died in the 1990s. She’s hoping to locate next of kin before she retires soon. Perhaps you can help. Then, Paul Woodbury, DNA specialist at Legacy Tree Genealogists, joins the show again to talk about the significance of tracking down various cousins. He’ll explain the value as you delve into your dna project.  It’s something of a 202 course, so listen carefully. Fisher then visits with Thomas Allen Harris, director and host of an upcoming PBS program called Family Pictures USA. He may have a place for your family pix and stories! Tom Perry, the Preservation Authority, then returns to answer another listener question. He also explains how he has obtained some of the amazing antique recording and playback devices he uses to help people digitize and preserve their audio. That’s all this week on Extreme Genes, America’s Family History Show!

Coming to you in 2018 from BRIC House in Downtown Brooklyn, this is 112BK. On the show today? Mental health challenges and the LGBTQ community with Kenyon Farrow & Antoine B. Craigwell; a play about New York's first African American Congressman Michael Chenevert; and preserving and presenting family memories with Thomas Allen Harris. 112BK is hosted by Ashley Ford (twitter.com/iSmashFizzle), and produced by Ross Tuttle, Fred Brown, Shirin Barghi, Emily Boghosssian and Kritzie Roberts. Our editors are Cli

This week, Carol sits down with the award and fellowship winning director and producer Thomas Allen Harris. He discusses his work behind such projects as 'Through A Lens Darkly' and 'Family Pictures'.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Mrs. Ethel Long Scott, Women's Economic Agenda Project joins us to talk about current issues.  2. Thomas Allen Harris, dir. Through a Lens Darkly, Black Photographers (Frameline 38, 2014). 3. D'Wayne Wiggins, philanthropist, Award-winning R&B artist, joins us to talk about Youth Aid, an organization he founded to expose, engage, and inspire youth from underserved communities through the creation, production and businessof music. Taste of Oakland Fest, Sat., May 13, 12 noon to 6 p.m., at Dunsmuir House. "Taste of Oakland Fest," will showcase the Bay Area's unique independence, culture and innovative spirit featuring music, technology, and food.The event is for all ages.     

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Instagram.com/WereGettingBetter — Phocabulary Vignetting The blocking of image-forming light around the edges of the image in a specific pattern. This can be done intentionally for aesthetic reasons, or may happen accidentally when the wrong lens shade or filters are attached to a lens. Source: Photography Second Edition By Bruce Warren — Tech briefs Lightroom on Android 2.0 has made it possible to shoot and edit RAW images. Yes you heard that right, you can now shoot raw on your smartphone. Now when you use Lightroom's built-in camera app, you'll see a 6th icon on the row of camera functions directly above the shutter release button. Located on the far right and clearly labeled “RAW”. The editing functions are the same but of course since these are now RAW images, the capabilities are broader and non destructive. Meaning you can always go back to the original file if need be. So Android smartphone users rejoice… In the meantime, I'll be waiting for the iPhone upgrade. Source: http://petapixel.com/2016/02/22/lightroom-android-2-0-worlds-first-end-end-mobile-raw-app/ — Book/film Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People In this film, director Thomas Allen Harris explores how photography has both positively and negatively affected Black Americans. The film covers photography of slaves portrayed as less than human all the way to present day images that instill a sense of self worth and humanity. Definitely a great documentary and historical reference filled with Black photographers and imagery. -- Music: KB @push-music --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bryonsummers/support

THOMAS ALLEN HARRIS joins me to talk about the National Broadcast of his work: THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. The Producer, Director Writer was raised in the Bronx and Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. He is the founder and President Chimpanzee Productions, a company dedicated to producing unique audio-visual experiences that illuminate the Human Condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality. Chimpanzee's innovative and award-winning performance-based documentary films - VINTAGE – Families of Value, E Minha Cara/That's My Face, and Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela - have received critical acclaim at International film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, FESPACO, Outfest, Flaherty and Cape Town and have been broadcast on PBS, the Sundance Channel, ARTE, as well as CBC, Swedish broadcasting Network and New Zealand Television. Mr. Harris' video and installations – including Splash, Black Body, AFRO (is just a Hairstyle) Notes on a Journey Through The African Diaspora and ALCHEMY - have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, the Corcoran Gallery, Reina Sophia, London Institute of the Arts, Gwangju Biennale, and the Long Beach Museum of Art. Harris has received numerous awards and fellowships including a United States Artist Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Fellowship, two Emmy nominations as well as Sundance Film Institute Directors Fellowships and a Tribeca Film Institute Nelson Mandela Award. A graduate of Harvard College and the Whitney Independent Study Program, Harris has taught at a variety of institutions including University of California San Diego where he received tenure as an Associate Professor of Media Arts. A published photographer, curator, and write, Mr. Harris lectures widely on the use of media as a tool for social change.

Inspired by Deborah Willis' book, Reflections in Black, THROUGH A LENS DARKLY (Willis is also a co-producer) casts a broad net that begins with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris's family album. It considers the difference between black photographers who use the camera to define themselves, their people, and their culture and some white photographers who, historically, have demeaned African-Americans through racist imagery. The film embraces both historical material (African-Americans who were slaves, who fought in the Civil War, were victims of lynchings, or were pivotal in the Civil Rights Movement) and contemporary images made by such luminaries as Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks, and Carrie Mae Weems. The film is a cornucopia of Americana that reveals deeply disturbing truths about the history of race relations while expressing joyous, life-affirming sentiments about the ability of artists and amateurs alike to assert their identity through the photographic lens. Note: The Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow is an interactive project that ties-in with the film. For more details, go to www.1World1Family.me. USA • 2014 • 92 MINS. • First Run Features

Join The Gist of Freedom tonight as we welcome filmmaker, Thomas Allen Harris.  Inspired by Deborah Willis’ book, Reflections in Black, THROUGH A LENS DARKLY (Willis is also a co-producer) casts a broad net that begins with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris’s family album. It considers the difference between black photographers who use the camera to define themselves, their people, and their culture and some white photographers who, historically, have demeaned African-Americans through racist imagery. The film embraces both historical material (African-Americans who were slaves, who fought in the Civil War, were victims of lynchings, or were pivotal in the Civil Rights Movement) and contemporary images made by such luminaries as Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks, and Carrie Mae Weems. The film is a cornucopia of Americana that reveals deeply disturbing truths about the history of race relations while expressing joyous, life-affirming sentiments about the ability of artists and amateurs alike to assert their identity through the photographic lens. Note: The Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow is an interactive project that ties-in with the film. For more details, go to www.1World1Family.me.

Thomas Allen Harris, an award-winning Director, is the President of Chimpanzee Productions, a company dedicated to producing unique audio-visual experiences including feature length films, performances and multimedia productions. Chimpanzee’s innovative and acclaimed films - Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014), Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (2005), E Minha Cara/That’s My Face (2001), VINTAGE – Families of Value (1995), - have received critical acclaim at international film festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, Frameline, FESPACO, Outfest, and Sithengi/Cape Town and have been broadcast on PBS, the Sundance Channel, ARTE, as well as CBC, Swedish broadcasting Network and New Zealand Television. Reviews of Harris’ work have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Jay Z’s Life and Times, Variety The Advocate, among others.  Harris' performance-based videos have been featured at prestigious museums including: the MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial, Corcoran Gallery, Reina Sophia, the Long Beach Museum of Art and London Institute of the Arts. A graduate of Harvard College, Harris began his career producing for public television, where he was nominated for two Emmy Awards.  Since then, he has received numerous awards including an Africa Movie Academy Award, Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award, Tribeca All Access Nelson Mandela Award, United States Artist Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Fellowship, as well as CPB/PBS and Sundance Directors Fellowships.  Harris has taught and lectured widely on film and multimedia and has served on a number of juries, including: Tribeca Film Festival, Independent Spirit Awards, POV American Documentary, and Full Frame.  In 2009 Harris launched Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, an innovative transmedia project that combines film, photography, social media and oral histories in a live touring event. Digital Diaspora has held 18 Roadshows in 9-cities, with over 800 participants, 3,000 live audience participants and received over 40,000 “Likes” and in excess of 10 million media impressions.   Resources:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odgHrU1T9a8   http://ibarionex.net/thecandidframe   info@thecandidframe.com

Hosted By: Michelle Materre, The Grande Dame of Black Whole  Thomas Allen Harris/Director was born in 1962 in the Bronx, New York, and spent his adolescent years in Tanzania. His television documentary work has been twice nominated for an Emmy Award. In addition to producing films, installations, and experimental video works, Harris has produced documentaries for public television. His 2001 documentary E Minha Cara/ That's My Face received numerous international awards and premiered at major film festivals.   Don Perry/Producer/Writer is Chief Operating Office of Chimpanzee Productions, Inc., which is a Harlem-based film, television and multimedia production company founded by filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris in 1992 that is dedicated to producing unique visual experiences that embody the search for identity, family and spirituality. He was also co-writer and co-producer of Thomas Allen Harris' feature length documentary "E Minha Cara/That's My Face".  Ann Bennett/Producer is a producer, director and writer for documentary films and multimedia projects with over twenty years of experience. She is a producer on the PBS feature documentary, Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People as well as the multi-platform community engagement initiative, Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR). Bennett's production credits include; Citizen King and Jubilee Singers for the PBS series "American Experience", Hymn for Alvin Ailey for "Dance in America", among others.

We open with an interview with Angelique Kidjo, Grammy award-winning recording artist deemed "Africa's greatest living diva" by NPR. In addition to international touring, she has used her visibility to campaign for women's rights, provide education opportunities for girls, and support environmental initiatives. She performs Sat., June 21, 2014, 8 p.m. at the Nourse Theatre, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA (415) 392-4400 www.ciis.edu/publicprograms We close with an interview with Thomas Allen Harris, dir., Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photography and the Emergence of a People, which is a part of Frameline38 and scenes June 21, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco. Visit www.frameline.org Following an award-winning festival run, which saw Through a Lens receive an African Oscar for Best Diasporic Documentary (African Movie Academy Awards,) Social Justice Award (Santa Barbara International Film Festival,) Programmers' Best Documentary Award (Pan African Film Festival,) along with a TEDDY Award nomination (Berlin International Film Festival) and screenings all over the world, the film has its New York theatrical premiere Aug. 27 through Sep. 9 at Film Forum  This will be followed by a national theatrical release by First Run Features,  See also http://1world1family.me http://chimpanzeeproductions.com