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NBPC New Media Insitute: NMI 2006 ~Black Hole 2 mins

Produced by Cauleen Smith, Sergio Rapu, Steeve Coupeau, Naimah Fuller

Price: $1.00

This work is one in a series of video podcasts in which the receiver "intercepts" 60 second messages from "travelers" either trying to find their way home or trying to run as far away as they can, but always hoping to maintain a connection with those they've left behind, or those they seek. These postcards express the pathos and longing of homesick travelers alienated from both the place they come from and the places to which they travel. They are communications of love and frustration. They are instructions and signs.

The NBPC NMI is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

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For the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the Cultural Astronomy and Storytelling group is hosting a short film and animation competition called "Skies Alive". Please consider submitting "black hole" or another celestially themed piece to the competition.

Best, JC Holbrook

Posted by J.C. Holbrook, Ph.D. | Feb 22 2009 at 04:15 pm | report this comment

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