The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically revealed our most fundamental needs and wants. Central to this struggle is the conflict between social responsibility and social interaction, which is particularly evident in lower-risk groups: teenagers and young adults. Thus, emerges a new conflict; how does classic rebellion in youth translate to action during a pandemic? Young adults…
Annie Vogt is quirky and kind – just like her mom, Laurie, was. Laurie passed away from breast cancer on April 24, 2019 when Annie was 20. A year later, Annie remembers her mom as a good cook who hated cooking, a seeker of sunny places who didn’t like the beach, and a lover of…
Shortly before the State of Alert decree in Spain on March 14, our CIEE students were notified by their universities that they were to return to the United States. Strange as it may seem to us now, nothing seemed to indicate the week before that this would be the course of events. It was difficult…
Rafa Iglesias is one of Spain’s best-known graphic designers and illustrators. A provocateur and agitator of consciences, his work is a constant criticism of the perverse use of power by Spanish institutions. In this video report, Alexandra Blackmore, Rebecca Torrence and Renee McCorkle propose him to draw in an improvised way five concepts related to…
Excellent video essay by Alexandra Blackmore on animated film, which starts with the question: why express ourselves through animated film, when we can do it much more easily with live action film?
In March 2020, students in the English and Spanish programs of Digital Video Reporting in Context had to return home unexpectedly because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Classes and video production continued, and some of these projects were about the coronavirus crisis. We present here a compilation of some of these projects. Emma Satin creates the…
Me and my family is the title of a nursery school project that Ben DiFilippi did when he was six years old. Confined to his home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ben returns to that project and reflects in this video autobiographical essay on the things that have changed since then and those that remain the…
Bernat defines himself as a shy person who connects with people through his drawings. Clara Ogden met him in the Plaza de la Alfalfa, while Bernat was doing some sketches in his workbook. In this video report, we will learn a little more about the hobby of this artist who seeks to capture the instant…
Ben DiFilippi and Katie Woodhouse met Ricardo P. Linares, an abstract painter who develops his work in one of the famous corralones of the Plaza de El Pelícano. The authors of this video report came to visit him in the late afternoon, when the intense activity of the place had decreased and only a few…
Mia Lee’s powerful reflection in this video essay on the condition of human beings. Why do we often desperately seek order in everything we do, in each of our creations? Is there something we miss, something we aspire to, something we yearn for without knowing it?
