DROP CITY - still
ACCIDENTS OF MEMORY - catalog cover
THE PORT OF LAST RESORT (Zuflucht in Shanghai) - poster
Family Compound, Ghana - for the World Resources Institute
MEDITATIONS ON AMNESIA - still
Accidents of Memory large-scale video installation, exhibited in Warsaw, that traverses some of Eastern Poland’s most traumatic and haunted sites.
RIVER - visual “sketch”
contact: joanrg@earthlink.net
Meditations on Amnesia: Oblivion & War video installation & performance piece about representations of war.
The Port of Last Resort feature-length documentary film about the exile of 20,000 Jewish refugees in Shanghai during WWII, told through home movies, propaganda films, secret reports, and writings by refugees.
GRASSROOTS MEDIA ACTIVISM video for the Ford Foundation’s initiative, “Reclaiming the Public Interest in Electronic Media,” which brought scholars and media justice activists together to address the impact of corporate media on democracy.
“The Road from Poverty” - a project of the World Resources Institute. I travelled to South Africa, Tanzania and Ghana to document community projects that promote environmental sustainability and help reduce poverty.
River multimedia installation about the Hudson River that explores mappings, frontiers, detours and a lexicon of the river.
Select Works Over the course of 10 years I created a series of film and video works that explore ideas related to exile, memory, war, the archive, and the role of image in both representing and failing to represent catastrophe. This work coincided with themes I developed for my Ph.D. and in presentations and conferences.
Works-in-Progress
new work in documentary and multimedia installation.
Freelance Producer of film, video and new media, and writer, researcher, and photographer for public interest organizations and industry, Projects on media & democracy, international development, poverty reduction, environmental sustainablility, public education. Clients include: The Ford Foundation, Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media, World Resources Institute, Marquis Studios, Inter-American Development Bank, Horsesmouth, Rosdy Film-Vienna, Navigator Film-Vienna. Cult Film-Vienna, Aspekt Telefilm-Hamburg, Newport Records, OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, Union Settlement Association. Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Project, North American Congress on Latin America, New York Methodist Hospital, nVision (for the United Nations), Learning Alliance
Formerly I was a producer for public radio and Voice of America on a variety of award-winning programs – including All Things Considered, Afropop Worldwide, Kids America, and The Territory of Art.
Yellow Stars commissioned film that accompanies a symphony by Russian composer, Isaac Schwartz.
GRASSROOTS MEDIA ACTIVISM: Building a Movement for Reform & Justice
YELLOW STARS – DVD
Joan Grossman
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Drop City documentary film about the legendary artists community that influenced a generation with its practices of art, architecture and sustainable living. The community was inspired by Buckminster Fuller, who honored Drop City in 1966 with his Dymaxion Award for “poetically economic structural accomplishments.” With funding from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts. DROP CITY will also be a major video installation at the MCA Denver in fall 2011.
DROP CITY - Peter Rabbit (audio clip)
from Atropos Press (July 2009)
Think Media series
Why Husserl?
Shown May, 2009 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris
