Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger is currently creating 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 will feature an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner will explain the social, economic and cultural reality of reality TV. This clip highlights an interview with Robert Galinsky, founder and principal of the New York Reality TV School, where actors get trained how to act real.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Extended Interview with David Harvey (50 mins.)
This is our third part of our 3 Part DVD:
Dr. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor at City College of New York speaks about the history of New York, and the Right to the City movement. He is author of numerous books including The Limits of Capital, Social Justice and The City, and The Urban Experience.
Dr. David Harvey, Distinguished Professor at City College of New York speaks about the history of New York, and the Right to the City movement. He is author of numerous books including The Limits of Capital, Social Justice and The City, and The Urban Experience.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Right to the City: New York City Demands
This is our second part of our 3 Part DVD:
Right to the City: New York City Demands (14 mins.)
This fast-paced film unfolds the RTTC Alliance’s 2009 Platform: the right to community decision-making power; to federal stimulus funds; to quality, affordable housing; to environmental and public health, to public space; and jobs and workforce training.
Right to the City: New York City Demands (14 mins.)
This fast-paced film unfolds the RTTC Alliance’s 2009 Platform: the right to community decision-making power; to federal stimulus funds; to quality, affordable housing; to environmental and public health, to public space; and jobs and workforce training.
Friday, November 27, 2009
The Right to the City (28 min)
We are thrilled to present to you a 3-part DVD on the Right to the City (RTTC) alliance in New York City, which is fighting for a just, healthy, affordable and equitable city. In a city run by moneyed interests, a united front is needed to win real and lasting change for the majority of New Yorkers.
About this documentary:
Connecting yesterdays suburban sprawl to todays condo gluts and Robert Moses style development with the growing movement taking back the city, this irreverent film brings it all together with the analysis of scholar David Harvey.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
#294: Showdown in Seattle
To mark the 10 year anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests we wanted to dust off the fantastic "Showdown in Seattle" show that we made way back in 1999.
This show is a one hour version of the five-part "Showdown in Seattle" series produced by Paper Tiger TV, in coalition with Changing America, Whispered Media, Big Noise, VideoActive, and the Independent Media Center. This unprecedented media collaboration makes public the voices and concerns of tens of thousands from all over the world who gathered in Seattle, Washington to protests the World Trade Organization's Millennium meeting, December 1999. This tape contains edited versions of all 5 shows that were satellite cast during the WTO's ministerial.
This show is a one hour version of the five-part "Showdown in Seattle" series produced by Paper Tiger TV, in coalition with Changing America, Whispered Media, Big Noise, VideoActive, and the Independent Media Center. This unprecedented media collaboration makes public the voices and concerns of tens of thousands from all over the world who gathered in Seattle, Washington to protests the World Trade Organization's Millennium meeting, December 1999. This tape contains edited versions of all 5 shows that were satellite cast during the WTO's ministerial.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Peace Pentagon Parade
Residents and friends of the legendary "Peace Pentagon" rally to save the building. Located at 339 Lafayette Street in downtown Manhattan, the building has had a major role in New York's social justice movement since the late sixties. To learn more about what's going on with 339 Lafayette, check out:
http://www.peacepentagon.org/
http://peacepentagoncompetition.org/
http://www.peacepentagon.org/
http://peacepentagoncompetition.org/
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Surveilling Surveillance: The Spy Store
Part of a longer production that explores modern surveillance technologies and how they affect us, this segment exposes civilian spy techniques at their weirdest and finest.
Shot at Spy Store NYC in the West Village.
Shot at Spy Store NYC in the West Village.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Art, Activism and Analysis: A New Series on Free Speech TV (Trailer)
Friday, October 9, 2009
Right to the City trailer
This is the trailer for our first collaborative documentary with IndyVideo
(the video component of the Indypendent).
The Right to the City (RTTC) is a documentary about the New York coalition
of many groups which are giving a unified response to gentrification and a call to halt
the displacement of low-income people, LGBTQ, and youths of color from their
historic urban neighborhoods.The RTTC is a national alliance of racial, economic
and environmental justice organizations. Groups like Picture the Homeless, Make the
Road, Mothers on the Move... and also academics such as David Harvey are part
of the local movement.
The 28-minute documentary will come out soon.
Look for broadcast dates and information about local screenings
on our website in the next few weeks.
For more information check this out: http://www.righttothecity.org/
Friday, October 2, 2009
Let Them Eat (Stinky) Cheese!
On Thursday, September 24th, 2009, members of Times Up! orchestrated a bike ride and “Funky Protest Cheese Party” at Union Square to protest the privatization and transformation of the park’s Pavilion into a private upscale restaurant, a plan proposed by Danny Meyer and the Union Square Partnership. Through funky dance, protestors interrupted the annual private “dinner” for supporters of the privatization of the Pavilion, a place that is considered a birthplace of the Labor Movement and a historically important site for Free Speech: it’s an idea that stinks!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Paper Tiger Reads the 21st Century Working Woman
In this mock-local news program, Paper Tiger will consider whether the utopian vision of working women seen in the popular movies of the late 1980's has come to fruition. Through a mix of sketch comedy, video mash-up, news media critique, faux hidden camera segments, and interviews with working women and the organizations that promote them, Paper Tiger will examine the current state of women in the workforce.
Friday, September 18, 2009
worms!!
A closer look at worm composting--one form of DIY environmentalism and sustainable living in New York City.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Addicted to Beauty
Another sneak peek at an upcoming Paper Tiger production: "Reality Unreeled: The Really Real Unreal Reality of Real Reality TV." Stay posted!
Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger's summer 2009 interns are currently creating 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 will feature an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner will explain the social, economic and cultural reality of reality TV. The show will also include an interview with Robert Galinsky, founder and “principal” of the New York Reality TV School, where actors get trained how to act real. And the interns will try to make sense of all of those "Addicted to Beauty" posters that you see everywhere through interviews with random subway passer-bys. Stay tuned for the release of the show in late Fall 2009. In the meantime, keep yourselves busy with this preview piece from the Paper Tiger archives with Herb Schiller on Geraldo and trash television—the unfortunate predecessors of contemporary “video nausea!!!”
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Urban Environmentalism: DIY Green Living
Paper Tiger Television 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 encourages rather than hinders their ability to live a green lifestyle. This show features segments on worm composting as an alternative to landfill waste, reusable bags for green markets, food foraging walks with Wildman Steve Brill, and the monthly "Really, Really Free Market" in Manhattan, hosted by the In Our Hearts Collective. As an extra bonus, there is also an archival piece about the thriving yet threatened Lower East Side community gardens, documenting the residents struggle to save their gardens from the wrath of Mayor Giuliani's gentrifying bulldozers. Finally, the show includes a studio conversation between community members discussing how environmentalism, through resourcefulness and perseverance, can become a part of everyone's urban routine.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
reality bites: the summer intern show!
Is reality television real? Is this the real life or is it just fantasy? Paper Tiger's summer 2009 interns are currently creating 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 will feature an interview with media critic, journalist and founder of Women in Media and News, Jennifer L. Pozner. Pozner will explain the social, economic and cultural reality of reality TV. The show will also include an interview with Robert Galinsky, founder and “principal” of the New York Reality TV School, where actors get trained how to act real. And the interns will try to make sense of all of those "Addicted to Beauty" posters that you see everywhere through interviews with random subway passer-bys. Stay tuned for the release of the show in late Fall 2009. In the meantime, keep yourselves busy with this preview piece from the Paper Tiger archives with Herb Schiller on Geraldo and trash television—the unfortunate predecessors of contemporary “video nausea!!!”
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Street Art Takeover!
On April 25th teams of whitewashers and artists transformed over 100 of NPA City Outdoor's 480 illegal billboards in Manhattan from street level advertising to art. Organized by Public Ad Campaign's Jordan Seiler, the New York Street Art Takeover 2009 not only set out to bring more art to public space, but to raise the question of who controls our visual landscape?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Prescription for REAL Debate on Healthcare Reform
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) and local healthcare advocacy groups delivered a petition signed by over 12,500 people demanding that the TV networks include the single-payer proposal in their coverage of the national healthcare debate. The petition's signatories include Obama's longtime physician, Dr. David Scheiner; filmmaker Michael Moore; former MSNBC host Phil Donahue; actors Mike Farrell, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon; and doctors Quentin Young, Stephanie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program.
The petition was presented to a security guard, despite FAIR's efforts to speak directly to an ABC representative with editorial control. ABC News disinvited Dr. Scheiner from its recent forum on healthcare reform, where he'd been planning to ask Obama a question about single-payer.
FAIR, Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare Now!, the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition, Code Pink and the Raging Grannies all took part in the petition delivery.
For more information www.healthcare-now.org/
The petition was presented to a security guard, despite FAIR's efforts to speak directly to an ABC representative with editorial control. ABC News disinvited Dr. Scheiner from its recent forum on healthcare reform, where he'd been planning to ask Obama a question about single-payer.
FAIR, Physicians for a National Health Program, Healthcare Now!, the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition, Code Pink and the Raging Grannies all took part in the petition delivery.
For more information www.healthcare-now.org/
Friday, May 15, 2009
Left Forum Superhero 2009
IndyVideo and Paper Tiger TV went out to ask some serious and some funny questions at the 2009 Left Forum. Here is an example of what the people there thought about superheroes.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Surveilling Surveillance
Paper Tiger Television is currently in production on a new show on surveillance culture. From government wiretapping to Facebook, GPS systems to credit card swipes, Google searches to nanny cams- how are you being watched? What are the implications if living in a surveillance culture? Are we safer or are our civil liberties threatened? Watch out for this new production coming out in summer 2009.
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