http://filmmakerscollab.org Supporting Independent Filmmakers Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:41:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://filmmakerscollab.org/films/always-in-season/comment-page-1/#comment-43 The WITNESS Blog Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:46:47 +0000 http://filmmakerscollab.org/?page_id=1370#comment-43 [...] “Always in Season” is a documentary that examines how the lynching of African Americans in the United States continued through the mid-1960s, revealing the choices and circumstances that brought tens of thousands of white friends and neighbors out to watch this horrible spectacle. As a native Southerner and African American woman who grew up in a community her family helped to integrate, Jacqueline Olive brings a unique insight into the complexities of race that evolved out of the collective silence of her hometown in Mississippi. At the Institute, the “Always in Season” team will build an island in Second Life, that re-creates Marion, Indiana circa 1930. Visitors will move the SIM as they complete tasks or respond to prompts from automated bots milling throughout the crowd that help them uncover facts about lynching and choices they can make to resist participating in collective acts of evil. [...] [...] “Always in Season” is a documentary that examines how the lynching of African Americans in the United States continued through the mid-1960s, revealing the choices and circumstances that brought tens of thousands of white friends and neighbors out to watch this horrible spectacle. As a native Southerner and African American woman who grew up in a community her family helped to integrate, Jacqueline Olive brings a unique insight into the complexities of race that evolved out of the collective silence of her hometown in Mississippi. At the Institute, the “Always in Season” team will build an island in Second Life, that re-creates Marion, Indiana circa 1930. Visitors will move the SIM as they complete tasks or respond to prompts from automated bots milling throughout the crowd that help them uncover facts about lynching and choices they can make to resist participating in collective acts of evil. [...]

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