Videos

none February 25, 2020

How One Artist Has Changed the Face of Barcelona

Urban painter, sculptor and creator of monumental land art, Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is an artist working against the divisive forces that are pulling contemporary society apart

none July 4, 2019

The Gnomist: A Great Big Beautiful Act Of Kindness

Deep in the forest of Overland Park, Kan., little gnomes made a home. But how did they get there? This is the story of paying it forward, one little house at a time. Video by Great Big Story in collaboration with filmmaker Sharon Liese and CNN Films

none July 4, 2019

“Where am I in this story?” - 6 Artists on Black Identity

“Where am I in this story?” Watch artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Chimamanda Adichie discuss how black people are (mis-)represented in today’s society and culture. Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) discusses the narrow perception of beauty in African culture, which is heavily influenced by Western ideals: “You’re internalizing society’s […]

London| Music July 4, 2019

To Have You Back - A CGI color splash from the Grammy Award-winning Tourist

For his latest release, Tourist—aka London-based electronic artist William Phillips, known for his Grammy Award-winning collaboration with singer-songwriter Sam Smith—enlisted art directors Davy Evans and Jason Drew to create a twisted visual metaphor, an “abstract story of the decay and breakup of a relationship and its eventual rekindling.” Having created visuals for artists including The […]

none July 4, 2019

Nowhere Line: Voices from Manus Island

Directed and produced by Lukas Schrank, this is an animated short film, narrated by two asylum-seeking men detained in Australia's Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre. The two recount the dangerous journeys that brought them to the island and their memories of the riot that erupted in 2014. In July 2013, the Australian Government introduced a […]

none July 4, 2019

Bikini Words - Korea vocabulary in the 1970s and 80s

Factory life during the rapid industrialisation of South Korea throughout the 1970s and 1980s meant tight communal living quarters and a drastic shift in cultural norms for the millions of factory workers that fed the country's growth. A new vocabulary evolved amongst these workers to put names to the radically new aspects of their urbanised […]