The Words Matter
When Michael Chanak took a job at Procter and Gamble in the mid 1980s, the AIDS epidemic was rampant. The company had found a niche with Peridex-a prescription mouthwash used to treat thrush in people suffering from HIV/
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When Michael Chanak took a job at Procter and Gamble in the mid 1980s, the AIDS epidemic was rampant. The company had found a niche with Peridex-a prescription mouthwash used to treat thrush in people suffering from HIV/
Ireland has two full-time terminologists whose job is to create hundreds of new Irish words and phrases every month. Focail Nua is a celebration of the vitality, complexity and depth of the language.
A girl is stalked by a mysterious entity within her dream
In a world of uncertainty, one man faced the grid… and won. The Wordle Warrior is a 48-second short chronicling the rise of a humble typist turned spelling icon. Shot in 4K. Fueled by caffeine. Powered by vowels. June
A stranger's quest in Chicago, particularly Chinatown, for a sense of being in a uncertain time. It derives from experiences of translation and transportation, negotiations with foreignness and intimacy, and attempts to
A Mime romance movie
Njattyela Sreedharan, a fourth standard drop-out, compiles a dictionary connecting four major Dravidian languages. Travelling across four states and doing extensive research, he spent twenty five years making the multili
A story of two friends: Gordi, strict law obeying citizen, who wants to secure the future of his daughter Alexandra and his eldery days, and Arno, former Legionaire, a man with no God, nor law. We discover that Alexandra
IN HER WORDS is a film and dance documentary, with most of the footage courtesy of the Jerome Robbins Dance Archive at Lincoln Center and the New York Public Library. Visually, a film retrospective of Elaine Summers' fil
Baby Babble - Beginning Words includes a 45 minute child segment and contains over 100 first words while also teaching early language concepts such as: * on/off * up/down * slow/fast * in/out * big/little Baby Babb
Stop-motion animation interrogates images in a book on Israeli state formation, questioning what lies beyond the image.
Every time the task of drawing a circle is performed, it results in a unique shape, a slightly different 'version' than the previous and next attempt. BEFORE WORDS is loosely based on Margaret Tait's unrealised script VI
Every time 22-year-old Heba Afify heads out to cover the historical events shaping her country's future, her mother is compelled to remind her, 'I know you are a journalist, but you're still a girl!' Defying cultural nor
For more than 15 years, people of the valley have resisted a series of massive dams on their river, and in their struggle have exposed the deceptive heart of India’s development politics. The struggle has forged unusual
Inspired by a chapter in Francois Rabelais' 1653 epic novel "Gargantua & Pantagruel" wherein Pantagruel finds that the explosions, cries and other sounds generated from a battle that had occurred the year before have bee
Truth, memory, and legacy get confused as a mother and daughter cope with the death of a matriarch.
This short documentary explores homophobic language and its consequences among teenagers. Name-calling and cruel language hurt, say the teens who speak in this video. Homophobic language is a common verbal put-down among
A man finds romance through a library book riddled with circled words, hiding messages of love.