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Community Studies Documentaries
The Community Studies Center at Dickinson College, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania has produced a number of documentary films. Many of these
have resulted from work done in the context of Oral Hisitory Projects
and Mosaic programs. Some are feature length films and others are
shorts we have posted on youtube. More information may be obtained by
viewing the websites listed below or contacting The Community Studies
Center directly at
csc@dickinson.edu or Professor Susan Rose, Director of CSC at
rose@dickinson.edu. A number of the films are also in circulation at the Dickinson College library.
http://www.youtube.com/user/CommunityStudies
COMMUNITY STUDIES CENTER
Documentary Films
Full-length Documentaries
An Argentine Mosaic: Destino Patagonia (71minutes; bilingual Sp/Eng) An Argentine Mosaic
focuses on the multiple (im)migration stories that led to the
development of Comodoro Rivadavia, in the Patagonia region of
Argentina, and surrounding oil company towns. The peopling of Patagonia
is a story of im(migration), ethnic-labor and gender relations, and the
documentation of collective memory. With the discovery of oil in 1907,
immigrants and migrant workers from Europe, South Africa, the
neighboring countries of Chile and Paraguay, and the provinces of
Northwest Argentina came to work in the oil fields of Patagonia. The
Patagonia Mosaic, as a college-community collaboration that involved
research teams of faculty, students, and community members from
Dickinson College and Comodoro Rivadavia, conducted video-taped oral
history interviews, and scanned and preserved documents and photographs
from various collections over a five-year period. Susan Rose and
Marcelo Borges, Sub-titling by Manuel Saralegui.
The Lost Ones: Long Journey Home (42 minutes)
The Lost Ones: Long Journey Home
documents the story of two Lipan Apache children captured along the
Texas-Mexican border in 1877 by the 4th U.S. Cavalry. After the
massacre of their village, the children rode with the Calvary for three
years before being taken to the Carlisle Indian School (CIS) in
Pennsylvania. Ties with their family were completely severed. The only
legacy the children left was Kasetta’s three year-old son who became
the youngest child to ever be enrolled at CIS. While the family
remembered the Lost Ones every year, they never knew what had happened
to the children or where they were buried until two centuries later.
The documentary reveals the mystery of how in 2009, Lipan Apache
descendants from California, Texas, and New Mexico came to Carlisle to
offer blessings so the children could be sent home. Susan Rose and
Manuel Saralegui in collaboration with Daniel Castro Romero, Jr.,
General Council Chairman Lipan Apache Band of Texas and Jacqueline
Fear-Segal, Professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia.
Outstanding 2005/2009 (53
minutes)
This documentary focuses on diverse students’ experiences at a
historically and predominantly white college. Through interviews and
conversations, students explore their identities, accomplishments, and
challenges negotiating college life. They reveal both the common and
diverse grounds they share as students of color, gay, working-class,
first-generation college students.
Global Clothesline Trailer (16min.)
The Global Clothesline Project is a visual display that bears witness to violence against women, and their experiences with healing and community building. As a grassroots movement, it extends work that began in Cape Cod in the early 1990's and builds upon Dickinson College's Pennsylvania Clothesline Project that interviewed women about the making and the meaning of their shirts. Professor Susan Rose, colleagues, and students have facilitated Clothesline Projects among diverse women in the U.S., Venezuela, Bosnia, and the Netherlands, and Cameroon. For more information: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/globalclothesline or to view the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBwpIXQ6h3M&context=C3a21046ADOEgsToPDsk
Clothesline
The original 1995 Clothesline documentary (produced by Lonna
Malmsheimer and Susan Rose) features interviews with women about the
making and the meaning of their shirts (53 minutes). Click to get here:
CLOTHESLINE is a 53 minute documentary video based on interviews with
women who contributed artwork to the central Pennsylvania Clothesline
Project. The Clothesline Project, organized in conjunction with the
national project based in Massachusetts, invited women to construct
T-shirts that expressed not only the violence they suffered but also
the healing and recovery they were experiencing. Since the hanging of
over 90 T-shirts in January 1993 in the local area, a number of shirts
were sent to Vienna, Austria as part of the United Nations exhibit
which raised concerns about violence against women as a human rights
issue and to Washington, D.C. for the national exhibit of over 5000
shirts, and to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. This
grass-roots project has particular significance to women in
Pennsylvania, but also to women nationally and internationally.
Clothesline: Bosnia-Herzegovina (Part I, Part II: A Conversation with Mersida)
[tri-lingual Bosnian/English/Spanish] features interviews that Shannon
Sullivan ‘09 conducted with women who were part of a witness protection
program in Bosnia. It also includes a conversation with Mersida
Camdzic, a Bosnian woman now living in Central Pennsylvania, who in the
process of helping with the translation, decided to tell her own story.
The two-part documentary (total running time 20 minutes) was
co-produced by Manuel Saralegui ‘09, Shannon Sullivan ‘09, Gabriela
Uassouf ‘10, and Professor Susan Rose (Tri-lingual in English, Bosnia,
and Spanish). http://www.youtube.com/user/CommunityStudies
Clothesline: Venezuela In the summer of 2007,
Professor Susan Rose and Gabriela Uassouf ’10 organized three
Clothesline projects in the barrios and rural areas in the state of
Lara, Venezuela. The 12 minute documentary produced by Gabriela Uassouf
and Rose features women and girls of all ages making shirts and telling
their stories of violence, awareness, and healing. Bi-lingual in
Spanish and English.
A non-CSC sponsored undertaking, an informative and interesting documentary by a former Sociology major.
Henry W. Spradley, Citizen Written and directed by Colin
Macfarlane and filmed by Stuart Flury, follows one student's search to
remember the history of Lincoln Cemetery. After being used as a burial
site for African American Civil War Veterans, in 1970 the cemetery was
destroyed and the headstones were removed. Now all that remains in this
cemetery in Carlisle, Pennsylvania is one token headstone to honor
those who still lay resting. This documentary tells the story of just
one of the African American veterans buried at Lincoln Cemetery and the
amazing impact he had on the entire Carlisle community. Click here for the youtube video.
Abridged Documentaries (on YouTube)
*An Argentine Mosaic: Destino Patagonia (Im)migration to Patagonia
[bi-lingual Spanish/English]
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xIiTVJxTXs)
Shorts (on YouTube)
Clothesline: Bosnia-Herzegovina (Part I, Part II: A Conversation with Mersida) [tri-lingual Bosnian/English/Spanish]
Grassroots’ Perspectives [bi-lingual Sp/Eng]
Dickinson Mosaics: Community Studies