Modern times, Charlie Chaplin's last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern times, though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!), is a timeless showcase of Chaplin's untouchable genius as a director of silent comedy.
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This is a rare opportunity to watch the therapist who developed and popularized genograms demonstrate how to actually create and utilize them in a therapy session. In this video, you will see Monica McGoldrick in action as she masterfully conducts an initial interview with a new client, demonstrating the step-by-step process of gathering historical information, creating the genogram, and contextualizing the client's presenting problem within a multigenerational family systems framework.
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Why is your street address such a good predictor of your health? Latino and Southeast Asian immigrants like Gwai Boonkeut have been moving into long-neglected urban neighborhoods such as those in Richmond, California, a predominantly Black city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Segregation and lack of access to jobs, nutritious foods, and safe, affordable housing have been harmful to the health of long-time African American residents, and now the newcomers' health is suffering too. As Harvard's David Williams reminds us, Housing policy is health policy. Neighborhood improvement policies are health policies. Everything that we can do to improve the quality of life for individuals in our society has an impact on their health and is a health policy.
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In the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea, French anthropologist Maurice Godelier invites five of his Baruya friends and informants to his house to discuss Baruya kinship and rules of marriage. As Godelier poses questions, the kinship rules that provide the cohesive fabric of Baruya culture are brought to life.
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In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. Such raids were not unusual in the late 1960s, an era when homosexual sex was illegal in every state but Illinois. That night, however, the street erupted into violent protests and demonstrations that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.
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Argentina, 1979. After years of exile, Juan (12) and his family come back to Argentina under fake identities. Juan's parents and his uncle Beto are members of the Montoneros Organization, which is fighting against the Military Junta that rules the country. Because of their political activities they are being tracked down relentlessly, and the threat of capture and even death is constant. However, Juan's daily life is also full of warmth and humor, and he quickly and easily integrates into his new environment. His friends at school and the girl he has a gigantic crush on, Maria, know him as Ernesto, a name he must not forget, since his family's survival is at stake.
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Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The miseducation of Cameron Post follows the titular character (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night.
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Film : the dynamic illusion focuses on the rapid development of film from a copy of other art forms to a mature, complex, and distinct art form of its own. It introduces techniques of filmmaking including camerawork, lighting, and editing by discussing clips from such early classics as: Rain (1932), The Pawnbroker (1966), Citizen Kane (1941), Psycho (1960), My man Godfrey (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), The battleship Potemkin (1925), and The great train robbery (1903)
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Film came into its own as a form of mass entertainment, evolving as an art, a business, and a powerful influence on moral and social values. Film: twentieth century legacy introduces technologies and people who made this metamorphosis possible, showing clips from early motion pictures such as The great train robbery (1903). It looks at the technological and artistic innovations of D.W. Griffith in his early works and in The birth of a nation (1915). It also discusses the influence of that film, both as a powerful reminder of the horror of war and as "a major contributor to America's bigotry towards Blacks--one of the most racist films ever produced in this country."
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In Universal Pictures’ Get Out, a speculative thriller from Blumhouse (producers of The Visit, Insidious series and The Gift) and the mind of Jordan Peele, when a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation.
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This short film dramatizes Ambrose Bierce's unforgettable short story, in which a Civil War prisoner sentenced to hang appears to break free and escape--but appearances are deceiving.
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A study of the moral ambiguities created by war, as evidenced by the effect of war on the reactions of a Serbian peasant during World War II.
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The birth of Soviet cinema examines the golden age of cinema in Russia in the 1920s by presenting excerpts from the masterworks of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Dovzhenko--and explains why the 1920s was a productive time for cinema in general.
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Three poets who revel in language's ability to reveal culture and history--Adrienne Rich, Victor Hernandez Cruz, and Michael S. Harper--are changing the way poetry is heard, read, and absorbed.
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Eight short films by students of the Department of Film Arts at Langara College. In Sparrow, a priest confronts his inner demons when he lets in a street girl who's not who she appears to be. Zeldon's excursion shadows a schizophrenic teen who believes himself to be a 1960s Sci-Fi space character. Missing link follows two prehistoric lovers struggling to stay alive when attacked in the middle of the night. Puppet magic! shows why you should never take advice from a puppet. In Big break, the director of the Sally Savannah Show is done weaving junk into the tapestry of our world. Next door's Cynthia starts to hear strange animal noises in her pet-less neighbour's back yard. The ultimate Identity thief comes for Janet and her partner in crime. Bridget seeks a "temporary date" in My funny valentine.
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Eight short films by students of the Department of Film Arts at Langara College. Afterlife explores the aftermath of a man's death. In Cursed wish, the Belladonna grants wishes--at an impossible price. The goods shows that even a hopeless romantic loses faith when she discovers her boyfriend cheating on her. The Office Killer is an urban legend. Right? In The Weihnachtens, Tracy's dreams come true when her Jesus-impersonating boyfriend proposes to her, but there's a catch: she has to kick the Christmas obsession out of her brother Karl. Wanda's a bit of pushover, except when it comes to True love. Genius shows how Kevin Aussant became the greatest screenwriter of all time. In Rotten slice of paradise, Domm and Eve's drug- and alcohol-fueled party is over.
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Nine short films by students of the Department of Film Arts at Langara College. In Sugar and Spice, a pair of women create an empire to claim their fortune, and find that it's not all glitz and glamour. In loving memory: An outcast shows up unannounced to a family funeral to make a mockery of the situation. Chaos ensues as thieves attempt to figure out what to do with a hostage who saw too much in It's a crime. Faith follows a man who must come to terms with the idea that there is no divine plan. The guide to Shangri-La sees three teens steal from the wrong people and face a pair of twisted drug runners. A hapless and helpless romantic tries to find love in Time's fool. Run along, Robert shows a day in the life of a young man with a severe aversion to conflict, which takes a turn when he's confronted by a character from his past. In Separation, a young couple struggles for control. Glass eyes follows Lucy, who lives in a world where sleep is regulated by the government and people haven't dreamt in years.
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Ten short films by emerging filmmakers. In Drifter, a ruthless bounty hunter discovers the true cost of revenge. A cry for help follows a teenager struggling with a bully who faces demons of her own. Waiting for the end: When her husband threatens to undo everything, a woman, with inspiration from her loyal friend, decides she's had enough. Manuscript sees a has-been author inviting her new assistant to dinner. When asked to steal from her new employer, the assistant's job gets complicated. A young woman is stuck at the airport in I just want a nap. When two film students travel deep into the forest to record sound effects, they overhear something unexpected in Echo. Connect follows two women meeting at a bar, both struggling for a genuine human experience in an increasingly artificial world. In life will do more, a man confides in this therapist about his life goal to confront the stepfather who destroyed his childhood. Two gunslingers pushed into a fight must decide how to take their lives back. In Keeping quiet, a girl's best friend points out her insecurities.
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This documentary tells the story of the explosive urban rebellion that tore Newark, New Jersey apart for nearly a week in the summer of 1967, sparked by the arrest of a Black cab driver by two White officers. Newark residents, police, and civic officials, historians, and special commentators including Amiri Baraka, Bob Herbert, and Tom Hayden recount the details of the uprising. Tracing the unrest back to decades of industrial decline, unemployment, racial discrimination, and political corruption, the film connects the Newark riots with similar disturbances in Detroit, Watts, and over 500 other U.S. cities during the 1960s.
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Smokescreen is a short film demonstrating counselling skills in use between a helper and a helpee. This dramatization is designed to examine understanding and skills rather than demonstrate good practice.
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Dramatization of an introductory counselling session with a male victim of domestic abuse.
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Dramatization of a conversation with an elderly woman who fears becoming a burden to her daughter.
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Dean Wilson, former IBM salesman, now president of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) is the most politically outspoken drug addict in Canada. He and his partner, Ann Livingston, are fighting to open North America's first safe injection site. They find an unexpected ally in Mayor Philip Owen, who champions a controversial European approach called Harm Reduction. This film follows these and other individuals over a 2 year period as the city of Vancouver struggles to come to terms with drug addiction in the Downtown Eastside.
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What do you when you're feeling angry or upset with a person? Knowing your conflict style can be helpful in managing your relationships with others. This video introduces you to five different conflict styles. Which animal do you relate to?
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Role play of a counseling session with a reticent client, demonstrating how to ask difficult questions.
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Nicholas Forge discusses confrontation, which should only be employed after trust has been established. Confrontation is used to highlight discrepancies between a client's goals and behaviors. It should be non-adversarial, non-accusatory, and always in the client's best interest.
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Interview with Dr. Beverly O. Ford of the DHS Self-Sufficiency Training Unit on ways to approach confrontation respectfully, with the goal of getting clients to change their behavior.
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Demonstration of confrontational patient counseling (to contrast with motivational interviewing approach)
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Demonstration of the motivational interviewing approach in a brief medical encounter.
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Dr. Anna Scheyett describes the ways that social workers serve their communities. Anna Scheyett serves as dean of the College of Social Work at USC. Her research examines community integration of vulnerable populations, especially those with serious mental illnesses, those with HIV, and those involved in the criminal justice system. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
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"Tell me what brought you here today..." Liz Lasky on the stuff she and other social workers say.
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What happens when a Rabbinical matchmaker, a newly married Hasidic couple and a single, religious hip-hop artist explore the precise meaning of true love? Using levity, animation and downright silliness, Kosher love looks at the search for true love and Bible-instructed marriage in the Orthodox/Hasidic Jewish world as it pushes back against an ever encroaching, wired, secular world and its idea of momentary disposable love. Walking a tightrope of expectation and deception, Kosher love documents the hopes and revelations of several religious Jews' search for love while simultaneously hoping to demonstrate we're all the same in our pursuit of intimacy, support, and relationships and that, ultimately, our humanity binds all of us in this most universal of discoveries.
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Imagine a world where a little boy can grow up to be the woman of his dreams, and a young girl can rise to become a leader among men. Welcome to Kumu Hina's Hawai'i. During a momentous year in her life in modern Honolulu, Hina Wong-Kalu, a native Hawaiian mahu, or transgender, teacher uses traditional culture to inspire a student to claim her place as leader of the school's all-male hula troupe. But despite her success as a teacher, Hina longs for love and a committed relationship. Will her marriage to a headstrong Tongan man fulfill her dreams? An incredible docu-drama that unfolds like a narrative film, Kumu Hina reveals a side of Hawai'i rarely seen on screen.
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Can-core is a core curriculum content platform created for use in Canadian schools. It contains content produced in Canada selected for its strong curriculum fit with resources relevant to teachers and K-12 students. Every segment meets a specific area of the curriculum and course, grade and strand or expectations are easily viewable. Includes content for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies.
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