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Open to the Public?
This documentary takes a critical look at the history and future of public space--from the Agora to shopping malls to NYC's community gardens. The film unrolls the complicated relationship between public and private control over space. Featuring scholars, activists and community organizers, including Don Mitchell, Sharon Zukin, Galen Kranz, and Rob Robbins. More info...
2011 TRT: 28 minutes #338
Basta Ya!
Paper Tiger collaborated with youth in Brooklyn to create a video on how gentrification and development affects residents. Rents and property values skyrocketed over the past few years in Sunset Park, a mostly Latino and Asian working class neighborhood in Brooklyn. People are being displaced as condominiums are being built. This video was created to inform residents about what is happening and to inspire the community to take action. However gentrification is happening in communities everywhere, and we want this video to also be seen in a global context. More info...
2010 TRT: 28 minutes #332
Paper Tiger Reads 21st Century Working Woman
A feminist comedy show examining representations of working women in mainstream media and the evolution of women’s place in the workforce over the past 50 years. Structured as a local news program starring two female anchors this show uses slapstick comedy, man-on-the-street interviews, live music, kitschy camera techniques, big hair-dos, and plenty of cribbed footage to examine a myriad of issues related to the contemporary working woman. More info...
2010 TRT: 28 minutes #333
Paper Tiger Reads: U.S Department of Defense Contracts
A live performance piece taped at Manhattan Neighborhood Network Studios in which Paper Tiger reads and responds to the United States Department of Defense Contracts for July 2nd, 2010. These contracts, valued $5 million or more, are announced each business day at 5 pm on the Department of Defense website. Produced with Red Channels. More info...
2010 TRT: 28 minutes #335
Reality Unreeled: The Really Real Unreal Reality of Real Reality TV
Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger created a show on reality television, to explore the social impacts and affective stereotypes of this explosive and exploitative genre that has taken TV networks by storm. The show features an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner explains the social, economic and cultural context of reality TV. More info...
2010 TRT: 28 minutes #334
Surveilling Surveillance
As of 2010, an average person in a democratic, industrialized country is under more surveillance than ever before. In this video, an attorney, a sociologist and an artist – each of whom have a unique relationship with surveillance – discuss what it means to live in a surveillance culture. This video is meant to provoke questions, start conversations and raise awareness.From government wiretapping to Facebook, GPS systems to credit card swipes, Google searches to nanny cams- how are you being watched? More info...
2010 TRT: 28 minutes #336
Right to the City
IndyVideo and Paper Tiger Television present a 3-part DVD on the Right to the City (RTTC) Alliance in New York City. In a city run by moneyed interests, a united front is forming to win the real and lasting changes needed to make the city a place that provides decent living conditions for majority of New Yorkers, not just the wealthy few. More info...
2009 TRT: 1 hour 52 minutes #331
Urban Environmentalism: DIY Living Green
Paper Tiger introduces you to New Yorkers who have found ways to live more sustainably through DIY environmentalism. The creative and unique projects of these city dwellers show how living in urban settings allows rather than hinders their ability to live a green lifestyle. This show features segments on worm composting as an alternative to contributing to landfill waste, reusable bags for green markets, food foraging walks with Wildman Steve Brill, and the monthly “Really, Really Free” markets in Manhattan hosted by the In Our Hearts Collective. More info...
2009 TRT: 28 minutes #330
An Emergent Second Life
For 27 years, the PTTV collective has played an important role in the tradition of media criticism, paying special attention to the inner workings of media production. The media landscape today, with the proliferation of new content providers, creates complex relationships and convergences among everyday and corporate forms of production, distribution and consumption. Media criticism no longer can take an "outside" vantage point, but must instead account for our general immersion in a veritable media ecology. More info...
2008 TRT: 28 minutes #327
Home on the Frontline
Who is really fighting the war in Iraq? A trio of teenage Brooklyn filmmakers produced and directed Home on the Frontline to offer their perspective on the answer to this question. Young people’s personal stories highlight how they feel the effect of the Iraq War on a daily basis. This production demonstrates that war is not only fought abroad, as the corporate media would have us believe, but that it is also fought right here at home. A collaboration between Paper Tiger and Hook Productions... More info...
2008 TRT: 11 minutes #325