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The Punk Singer (2013, dir. Sini Anderson)
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The Punk Singer (2013, dir. Sini Anderson)
Docs from the Docs: Documentary Recommendations from our Faculty #staywoke
Are you ready for classes to start? As some of us are winding down with Summer B, some of us are just now moving into the city--prepping for the upcoming fall semester. As an incoming student, you are probably aware of our social justice theme here at Teachers College. For this reason, we asked some of our faculty members what documentaries they believe closely align with our mission at the College. We encourage you to check them out! Links for more information can be found below:
Inequality for All
Between the World and Me
Divided States of America
Dr. Sarmast’s Music School
John Gardner: Uncommon American
Speaking in Tongues
Una Vida Dos Paises & Living Undocumented
Rubble Kings by Shan Nicholson
Los Sures by Diego Echeverria
In Jackson Heights by Frederick Wiseman
Bronx Gothic by Andrew Rossi
Brick by Brick by Bill Kavanagh
The Hundred Years Show
The Barefoot Artist,
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
How to Survive a Plague
Queers in the Kingdom
Mothers of Bedford
Invisible war
13th
Life and Debt
Eyes on the Prize Series 1, Episode 2 “Fighting Back”
The Art of the Steal (2009)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Step (2017)
Excerpt of the Pale Blue Dot (from the original Cosmos series)
2 Fists Up: We Gon’ Be Alright
Ed Talk Videos by AERA (part of its Knowledge Forum)
Additional recommendations from your friends at TC: Katherine Newhouse (Elementary Inclusive Education): The Kids are Alright and Wretches and Jabberers
Carie Donnelson (Arts and Humanities Digital Content Coordinator): I Am Not Your Negro
Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018, dir. Johanna Demetrakas)
The Punk Singer (2013, dir. Sini Anderson)
It sounds like bedroom culture. It sounds like something a girl made in her bedroom. A girl’s bedroom sometimes can be this space of real creativity. The problem is that these bedrooms are all cut off from each other. So, how do you take that bedroom that you’re cut off from all the other girls who are secretly in their bedroom writing secret things or making secret songs? I wanted the “Julie Ruin” record to sound like a girl from her bedroom made this record but then didn’t just throw it away, or it wasn’t just in her diary. But she took it out and shared it with people
Kathleen Hanna talking about “Julie Ruin” record (quote from “The Punk Singer” movie)
I had spent so much of my life feeling if I’m not perfect, no one can love me. And then… I realized that trying to be perfect is a toxic journey. We’re not perfect. We have to love our shadow, we have to embrace and accept our shadows. And sometimes, good enough is good enough.
Jane Fonda (Quote form Jane Fonda in Five Acts, 2018, dir. Susan Lacy)
BBC Imagine. Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!
I just think there’s this certain assumption that when a man tells the truth, it’s the truth. And when as a woman I go to tell the truth, I feel like I have to negotiate the way I’ll be perceived. Like, I feel like there’s always the suspicion around a women’s truth, the idea that you’re exaggerating
Kathleen Hanna (quote from “The Punk Singer” movie)