Special Presentation of DeeDee Halleck - Tactical media: Structure for Struggle
Submitted on July 13,2015
From creating pioneering 16mm film workshops in 1961 to coding maps of community gardens in 2015, DeeDee Halleck has been a founding mother of community media. She will show clips from her vast archive of activist media making. Included are films made in
the 1970s by incarcerated youth, selections from her documentation of the Bread and Puppet theater, and the turbulent 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia on Democracy Now!
DeeDee Halleck is a media activist, founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grassroots community television network. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California at San Diego. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Rockefeller Media Grants.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University.