Video: "Magnetic Movie", A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt - shot at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California, USA

Video "Magnetic Movie" a film about the secret lives of invisible magnetic fields that are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries.

All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories at the University of California Berkeley, including the voice recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries.

Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons.

Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world.

Awarded the Nature ‘Scientific Merit Award’ by Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, 2009.
Purchased by the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington for the permanent collection, 2008. Awarded ‘Best Film at Cutting Edge’ at the British Animation Awards, 2008. Special Mention, ‘Best International Experimental Short’ at Leeds International Film Festival, 2008. Awarded ‘Best Experimental Film’ at Tirana International Film Festival, 2007.

Video animated short: "Wild Life" directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis

Video "Wild Life" directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, is a short animated film which tells the story of a dapper young remittance man, sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909. However, his affection for badminton, bird watching and liquor leaves him little time for wrangling cattle. It soon becomes clear that nothing in his refined upbringing has prepared him for the harsh conditions of the New World. A film about the beauty of the prairie, the pangs of homesickness and the folly of living dangerously out of context.

Awards and Nominations: Academy Award nomination USA, Best Canadian Film of the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Best Canadian Film of the Halifax Film Festival, Special Jury Prize of the Open Cinema Festival at St. Petersburg Russia, First Prize of the L'Alternativa at Barcelona Spain, Best Animation of the Yorkton Film Festival at Saskatchewan Canada, Canadian Genie Nomination.

About the Directors and their website:
Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis met at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver where they studied film, video and animation. They each went on to create their own works with the National Film Board of Canada before co-directing "When the Day Breaks".

Tilby taught animation at Harvard and Concordia University, and from 2007 - 2009 was external examiner for animation at the Royal College of Art in London.

Forbis led many animation workshops for kids, and from 1987 - 1993 was an instructor at the Arts Umbrella Children’s Art Centre in Vancouver.

Image Credits 

Image Credits 

Video animated short: "When the Day Breaks" directed by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Video animation "When the Day Breaks"
directed by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby.

Ruby the pig seeks affirmation in the city around her after witnessing the accidental death of a stranger… and finds it in surprising places. With deft humour and finely rendered detail, When the Day Breaks illuminates the links that connect our urban lives, while evoking the promise and fragility of a new day. The film also features singer Martha Wainwright.

Awards: Winner of over 40 prizes from around the world including the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film 52nd International Film Festival Cannes France, 1999; Grand Prix for Best Animated Short Film 23rd International Animated Film Festival Annecy 1999; Gold Hugo Award Animated Short Film Category 35th International Film Festival Chicago, 1999, an Oscar® nomination for Best Animated Short Film, and the Grand Prix at Zagreb and Hiroshima International Animation Festivals.

About the Directors and their website: 
Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis met at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver where they studied film, video and animation. They each went on to create their own works with the National Film Board of Canada before co-directing "When the Day Breaks".

Tilby and Forbis have also collaborated on assorted commissioned projects and directed numerous TV commercials. Interview, their acclaimed spot for United Airlines, was nominated for an Emmy® in 2004.

Forbis has led many animation workshops for kids and from 1987 - 1993 was an instructor at the Arts Umbrella Children’s Art Centre in Vancouver.

Tilby has taught animation at Harvard and Concordia University and from 2007 - 2009 was external examiner for animation at the Royal College of Art in London.

Videos: Artwork and Speed Drawing of Lora Zombie

Artwork and Speed Drawing Videos of Lora Zombie - A self-taught painter born in 1990 Voronezh, Russia, who has amassed a massive following of fans online over the past few years.
Video 2014 - Unicorns Slam
Video "Coffee and Milk"
Video "The Protector"
Video "Panda Tree"
Video "Mr Peace"

Video "Live Painting in Moscow"

Now she is breaking into the gallery scene and is branching far outside her native Russia with her unique blend of street art and grunge influence.

Creator of the Universe by Lora Zombie

Tom Waits by Lora Zombie

"Falling Angel" by Lora Zombie

"Adventure Time" by Lora Zombie

"Wonder Woman" by Lora Zombie

"Mr Grenade" by Lora Zombie

"Happy Family" by Lora Zombie

"Charlie, Bob and Donna" by Lora Zombie

"Ironman" by Lora Zombie

Videos short docs "William Trubridge - Freediver" by The Avant/Garde Dairies AND "Hectometer - World Record" by Matthew Brown (about William Trubridge's freedive to bring light to the plight of Hector's Dolphins of New Zealand)

Watch "Hectometer - World Record" - This is the visual poem of William Trubridge's world record freedive to 100 meters (one hectometer, basically one football field length and back) in order to bring light to the plight of the world's smallest cetacean, the Hector's Dolphin of New Zealand.

With one breath of air and diving without weights, fins or any propulsive assistance, William descended to 101 meters in the waters of Dean's Blue Hole, Bahamas, the deepest blue hole in the world.

 This short documentary of the record attempts to transmit what it is like to freedive deep beneath the surface, and how we can return to explore our potential as an aquatic mammal in the search to help our endangered cousins of the seas. Website and more Videos (Press Interviews)

Directed and Edited by Matthew Brown
Written and Produced by William Trubridge
Director of Photography - Matthew Brown

Short film "William Trubridge - Freediver" by The Avant/Garde Diaries 
Produced and directed by Kitty Bolhoefer and Fridolin Schoepper

Description of Freediver :

"When freediver William Trubridge prepares for another routine descent into the ocean riding only on a single breath - some nearly 400 feet down - his only immediate preparation is the cue to close his eyes and relax.

Any errant thought robs the body of valuable energy, as does any unnecessary movement or visual stimuli.

It’s no coincidence that this concentrated inner posture bears no small resemblance to the sensation of diving unencumbered and alone into the dark and mystical silence of the deep ocean.

It’s an experience completely foreign to those accustomed to scuba diving or snorkelling near the surface.

Just off the Honduran island of Roatán, The Avant/Garde Diaries joined William Trubridge on one of his dives, capturing the serene beauty of an activity with roots in Korea nearly seven thousand years ago.

Having himself only begun the activity ten years ago, Trubridge currently holds the world record for diving deepest, and he shows no sign of stopping."

Video Trailer: "Breathe"

Video CG animated short "Descendants" by director Heiko van der Scherm

Watch computer animated short film "Descendants" and the Making of

 "Descendants" is a 14-minute animated short directed by Heiko van der Scherm

The two main characters are flowers who grow on the edge of a clearing next to one another. One is old and jaded by a mysterious history ~ the other one still young, vivid and curious. The wish to attain the unattainable: something good can evolve from something evil. They are voiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Christy Scott-Cashman.

Destiny has brought these two together and it seems as if they would exist without possibility for change, until one day a visitor to the clearing brings something unexpected to their lives.

This short film started as a school diploma project by Heiko van der Scherm and Holger Schoenberger at the Institute of Animation (part of the Filmakademie Baden-Werttemberg).

Video short documentary "Great Law Of Peace Constitution, One Dish One Spoon" ~ over 200 scholars worldwide deemed the oldest living constitution on earth, is the "Great Law, White Roots of Peace Haudenosaunee Constitution" This is one story of peace, the history of peace and the future of peace.

Video: Great Law Of Peace Constitution - One Dish One Spoon 
This is a heart felt documentary about the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, over 200 scholars worldwide deemed the oldest living constitution on earth, is the "Great Law, White Roots of Peace Haudenosaunee Constitution". It is an amazing story of ancient and modern human beings protecting peace and learning how to keep the peace ~ protesting, praying, meditating, singing, drumming, dancing, walking, sitting, talking, chanting, fighting, exploring and discovering peace.

What is the history of Peace? What is a Peace Officer? What is policing Peace? What is governing Peace? What is a guardian of Peace? What is a citizen of Peace? What is a Peace Council? What is the history of Peace? This documentary escalates into sharing the story of the "2006 Grand River land dispute" to show peace, maintaining peace, sovereign rights of peace and keeping the peace. This documentary ends it's story with how women, elders, men and young people are viewing peace, their current and future role for creating and maintaining peace. This is one story of peace, the history of peace and the future of peace.

Six Nations Chiefs

Video Documentary: "First Speakers: Restoring The Ojibwe Language" ~ Viewing The World Through Sound and Eyes Full of Language Pride

Video Documentary: "First Speakers: Restoring The Ojibwe Language".  Several languages a day are lost to our world, but everywhere individuals are choosing to preserve their cultural identify and heritage through revitalization projects. This is a ground breaking film about the creation of an experimental Ojibwe "language immersion school" to restore their language heritage. Exploring language modelling and immersion revitalization schools for children of all cultures. 

 Quote from their website; "As recent as World War II, the Ojibwe language (referred to as ojibwemowin in Ojibwe) was the language of everyday life for the Anishinaabe and historically the language of the Great Lakes fur trade.  Now this indigenous language from where place names like Biwabik, Sheboygan and Nemadji State Forest received their names is endangered. 

The loss of land and political autonomy, combined with the damaging effects of U.S. government policies aimed at assimilating Native Americans through government run boarding schools, have led to the steep decline in the use of the language.  Anton Treuer, historian, author and professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and featured in First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language, estimates there are fewer than one thousand fluent Ojibwe speakers left in the United States, mostly older and concentrated in small pockets in northern Minnesota with fewer than one hundred speakers in Wisconsin, Michigan and North Dakota combined. 

Treuer is a part of a new generation of Ojibwe scholars and educators who are now racing against time to save the language and the well-being of their communities.  Narrated by acclaimed Ojibwe writer, Louise Erdrich, First Speakers tells their contemporary and inspirational story. Working with the remaining fluent Ojibwe speaking elders, the hope is to pass the language on to the next generation.  As told through Ojibwe elders, scholars, writers, historians and teachers, this original production reveals some of the current strategies and challenges that are involved in trying to carry forward the language. 

First Speakers takes viewers inside two Ojibwe immersion schools: Niigaane Ojibwemowin Immersion School on the Leech Lake Reservation near Bena, Minnesota and the Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion Charter School on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation near Hayward, Wisconsin. In both programs, students are taught their academic content from music to math entirely in the Ojibwe language and within the values and traditional practices of the Ojibwe culture. Unique to the schools is the collaboration between fluent speaking elders and the teachers who have learned Ojibwe as their second language.

First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language provides a window into their innovative and intergenerational learning experience and the language they are determined to save.

Article: The Circle "Twin Cities Public Television documentary First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language was awarded a MidWest Regional Emmy Award for Artistic Excellence in the Documentary-Cultural category. The one-hour program features the work of the Niigaane Ojibwemowin Immersion school and other schools and scholars in the region working to revitalize and restore the Ojibwe language. Niigaane Ojibwemowin Immersion Kindergarten through sixth grade classrooms participated in the film during late spring of 2010. At Niigaane, all academic and social content is taught through the medium of Ojibwe language. Through this style of teaching the Leech Lake community hopes to reclaim the Ojibwe language as a vital, necessary language for the coming generations.

The Emmy award is currently traveling on a "Miigwech Tour" to all of the sites that opened their doors as participants in the film. First stop has been at the Niigaane school in Bena, Minnesota, where the Niigaane Kindergarten through sixth grade students have been taking care of the award and talking about the importance of the Ojibwe language in today's world. The Emmy Award statue will be at Niigaane until January 6, 2012. Niigaane will host a feast and farewell to the beautiful statuette on that day at the Niigaane classrooms.

From there, the award will travel to Bemidji State University, the Red Lake Nation, Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion Charter School Hayward Wisconsin, Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, and to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Department of American Studies.


Many, many people contributed to the film and this is a great reminder of the strength and importance of Ojibwe language and culture today. The film was funded by an Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund Legacy Fund grant to Twin Cities Public Television and the citizens of Minnesota with additional support provided by the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants through the Minnesota Historical Society as a way to showcase Minnesota's cultural heritage and ongoing legacy. The film premiered November 2010 on Twin Cities Public Television, and can also be seen on local Minnesota Public Television stations."

More Videos via website "Indigenous People's Issues"

Photos - Leech Lake Band Of Ojibwe Pow Wow Memorial Day 2013 and Men's Dance Competition

Image Credit: True To Words ~ "Leech Lake Ojibwe Delegation to Washington 1899"

State Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund ~ Legacy Amendment