tagged w/ Defining Beauty
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I hit the streets of San Francisco to ask one awkward question: What is beauty?
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Funky Fingers talks about what beauty means to him. Listen
Maybe we share some of the same view points.Funky Fingers talks about what beauty means to him. Listen
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We should have more clothing options!
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The fashion industry needs to help people know that they don't have to be super thin models to be beautiful or happy.The fashion industry needs to help people know that they don't have to be super... more
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Built in Kabul shows a side of Afghanistan you haven't seen: young Afghani's pumping iron, inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger, while the first free election of the millennium is taking place around them.Built in Kabul shows a side of Afghanistan you haven't seen: young Afghani's... more
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Built in Kabul is a 6-minute film about a side of Afghanistan you haven?t seen.
There is an unfamiliar sound in Kabul-it is the clink of metal hitting metal. It is hard not to notice the young men who are eagerly congregating in small rooms.
No, these men are not gathering to form new terrorism cells, but to pump iron?
Bodybuilding has become enormously popular among hundreds young men in this war torn country. There are over fifty new weight lifting gyms in Kabul alone, using old weights from the Soviet invasion in the 70?s.
There are ten-foot tall handmade billboards of Arnold Schwarzenegger?s muscular image overlooking the city as it struggles to rebuild its citizens and itself as a country.
Shoib Satar is one of these young bodybuilders who sees this sport as a way Afghans can better themselves.
As young men become ?strong? and ?independent? so does their country. Shoib has great hopes for the future of his people and his home in the new film by Brent E. Huffman entitled Built in Kabul.
Built in Kabul A Film by Brent E. Huffman copyright 2005
www.germancamera.comBuilt in Kabul is a 6-minute film about a side of Afghanistan you haven?t seen.... more
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Avant-Garde, short film exploring a female's stream of consciousness (reflected in poetry) as she deals with self image issues in connection with the women in the magazines. Soon, she finds the courage to believe in the beauty and love within.Avant-Garde, short film exploring a female's stream of consciousness (reflected... more
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We have to stop looking to advertizing and media for their ideals of beauty. Beauty is an individual's own natural attraction to someone or something and it cannot be forced into some kind of universal mold that applies to everyone. As the world gets small and the internet takes over there are more opportunities for media and advertizing to put their standard of beauty in front of us, but I think people are getting wise to them now. I'd rather someone i know share their idea of beauty than someone in an office making a living selling me a lifestyle.We have to stop looking to advertizing and media for their ideals of beauty. Beauty is... more
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Certainly, there are bigger, more pressing issues in the world today: the crisis in Sudan, nuclear weapons in Pakistan, George W. Bush in general. The issue Ive chosen to cover, however, is important and meaningful in a more subtle, insidious way.
Ever since I was little, Id noticed the sale of a skin-lightening cream called Fair and Lovely in my local Indian grocery store. I saw ads for it in the Bollywood magazines my mom bought; I saw ads for it on television every time we visited relatives in India. Now, its more than just Fair and Lovely. Loreal has a line called White Perfect skin lotion, and Lux Beauty has also joined the marketing machine with their line of White Glow soaps.
This issue is meaningful because it speaks to generations of self-hate and prejudice within the South Asian community. Its 2006, and women are still using skin-lightening creams to bleach their skin to a standard of whiteness that will make them acceptable to their peers and potential mates. Girls my own age, born and raised in America like myself, are submitting to these racist standards of beauty without questioning them.
I hope to effect positive change with this documentary by asking these questions. When I interviewed my friends and peers, most of them hadnt thought too deeply about why South Asians revere white skin, and yet, most of them had personal experience with this prejudice. I hope the positive change will be self-awareness instead of self-hate.
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