Student Film Asks that We Save the Bees and Save the Planet
By Reilly Wisniewski The short film from Brigid Donahue, Save the Bees Save the Planet, offers everything you want to know about the current state of the bee population. Right away I’m drawn to the pieces of art created by the filmmaker. It’s such an easy way to show off talent and artistry. I love that the film incorporates direct quotes and statements from scholarly sources. Donahue does a good job of showing the importance of the...
An Interview with a Fig Tree: the Trees Know Best
By Tanner Sell An Interview with a Fig Tree is a short film directed by Adam Hersko-RonaTas that dives into questions of being rooted while having larger aspirations to positively impact as many people as possible. It poses the question, how can we be content in our immediate vicinity when there is so much going on outside of our control? Adam Hersko-RonaTas utilizes just under two minutes of film to interview a personified fig...
Grace Goen’s Unseen is Ironically a Must See
By Sean Hendrickson Unseen, directed by Grace Goen, uses its outlandish and horrifying version of disease to successfully mount its character drama with parallels to modern reality, and delivers an ending that will certainly last in your mind. This movie feels like a visual step up in quality to many of its contemporaries, especially considering its use of physical props and sets. The visual motif of physical separation with mirrors...
Mike Schleif’s Space Bears; Making Capitalism Bear-able
By Sean Hendrickson Space Bears the Movie uses its relatively solid animation and music as a foundation for its witty, well written allegories surrounding late stage capitalism and its consequences. King Glopp is the epitome of greed: stealing resources from all over the galaxy and forcing those under him to expand his wealth. Kids (as we all know) have a strong sense of what’s “fair” from a young age, and this film does a great job...
Steps in the Street (1936) – Martha Graham’s Response to Facism in Europe Conveys a Compelling Message
By Ethan Thomas War and its effects on those involved need no elucidation. Dance and other art forms have long been a powerful way to express the pain and anxiety people experience in times of suffering. Steps in the Street (1936) is a unique interpretation of this experience. Steps in the Street was curated for Planet Classroom by the Martha Graham Dance Company. It was choreographed by Martha Graham in 1936 with music by Wallingford...
Is Democracy in a Global Crisis? Explores Some of the Themes Threatening Modern Democracies
By Ethan Thomas For many people around the world, living in a country that has a democratic form of government is all they have known their entire lives. They learn about democracy in school, and how the founders of their country went to great lengths to establish such a system. However, the modern world is complex and many nations are experiencing threats to the traditional theories of Democracy. Is Democracy in a Global...
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