This is a Digital Archive of projects that are not listed in our Store.
Many can be viewed or are present as a credit to the filmmaker.
The digitization of the Media Working Group archive was funded in part by the Ohio Arts Council.
IN THE MIST
by Sergei LInkov
Set in Belarussia occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941. Several railroad workers are arrested the day after a Nazi train crash. Four of them are hanged but one man is sent home. Why? Soviet partisans decide to execute him. What should he do?
Directed by Sergei Linkov
Russian Language
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OVER THE VETLUGA RIVER
A young woman lives in a small village far from the big city where she creates folk songs. Singing is like breathing to her but, she must make a choice between love or songs.
Directed by Sergei Linkov
1985
Russian Language
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SHOOTING IN THE SQUARE
What happened is told only in this film
This documentary is set in Novocherkassk, in the south of Soviet Russia where several big factories were located. On the first of June 1962, the Soviet government and the Communist Party announced an increase in the price of meat, bread and milk. The same day the workers spontaneously stopped their work and went out into the streets. What happened next is told only in this film.
Directed by Sergei Linkov
1997
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LAST SATURDAY
She decides to get revenge
Sasha, a discharged soldier, returns home with his young wife. His friend Oleg falls in love with her. When Sasha is found dead in the street, the young woman is sure he was killed by Oleg…she decides to get revenge.
Russian language
Written and Directed by Sergei Linkov
1993
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CHANUPA, THE TEACHINGS OF THE TREE OF LIFE
A Transmission from Lakota medicine man Wallace Black Elk
A monograph of a rare transmission of a spiritual teaching by Wallace Black Elk, medicine bearer of the Lakota nation. In 1995 Grandpa Wallace sat down in front of Jean Donohue’s camera to relay his most important message to humanity.
This artisan made booklet is minimally edited to retain the essence of the transmission. There is a short explanation to provide context for this important message from the last medicine man of the Black Elk spiritual lineage.
Edited by Jean Donohue
2008
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DEATH ON DELIVERY
Sam Berrisford and Fred Johnson produced this riveting documentary about the inner workings of government sanctioned international arms trade that is so devastating to the developing world. Produced for Britain’s Campaign Against the Arms Trade and BBC 2.
Narrated by Glenda Jackson.
Produced/Directed by Fred Johnson and Sam Berrisford
Media Working Group distributes this film with a special arrangement with GreenNet and the BBC Community Programme Unit.
DVD 28:30 min
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FUTURE ON THE LINE
Future On The Line, produced in 1990, was a utopian vision of how the emerging Internet could assist progressive community developers to grow local economies and strengthen the fabric of civic life. Produced in association with GreenNet, through the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Community Programme Unit for BBC 2, the documentary depicts a critical moment in the development of the United Kingdom’s telecommunications environment and policy; and continues to inform community use of computer assisted communications.
Produced and directed by Fred Johnson VIEW FILM
Media Working Group distributes this film with a special arrangement
with GreenNet and the BBC Community Programme Unit.
For exhibition inquiries please use the Contact Form.
DVD 38:00 min
THE TRAIL OF HOPE: THE BUILDING OF A CEREMONIAL EARTHWORK
Donohue’s engaging documentary chronicles Lakota-Bantu medicine woman, Kaylynn TwoTrees’ ceremonial creation of a sacred space in southwest Ohio. It portrays the earth-based, spiritual underpinning of this work with images and language of ceremony by Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Shawnee Temple Women and spiritual elders from the African American, Appalachian and Native American communities with Sun Spirit of the Ohio Shawnee Remnant Band; Gurney Norman Appalachian cultural bearer; Liu Shueng, Chinese storyteller from New Zealand.
The Trail of Hope is about history as remembered by the descendants of the landscape of the Ohio River Valley from stories passed down.
Produced/Directed by Jean Donohue
DVD 38 min Click Here to Purchase
Screenings
Sacred Spaces Conference, University of Cincinnati
Art Museum of Northern Arizona University
LE SENTIER DU DIAMANT
The Search for the Black Diamond
Featuring the Boris family and their farm Le Ferme de Brunie-Haute in Saint-Laurent Les Tours (near Saint Cere, Lot) France. The family has been hunting, cultivating, and selling black truffles for five generations. It’s an extraordinary visit with a master trufficutleur who grows truffles biodynamically, with a deep love and respect for the geology and history of the land.
Produced by Jean-Louis Truel, Jean Donohue and Fred Johnson
Directed by Jean Donohue VIEW FILM
2015
THE GREEN DOT BYSTANDER INTERVENTION
The Green Dot evaluation team discuss why and how they are evaluating bystander invention, a potentially powerful sexual assault prevention method.
Produced, Directed and Edited by Jean Donohue
with Fred Johnson VIEW FILM
Director of Photography Mark Stucker
2013
THE NETWORK PROJECT + THE BIRTH OF COMMUNITY BROADBAND
Produced and directed by Fred Johnson VIEW FILM
2015
THE NETWORK PROJECT + FAST AND CHEAP, Glasgow, Kentucky’s Revolutionary Network
Where did the first municipally developed and owned broadband network come into being? The tiny town of Glasgow, Kentucky.
The Network Project is a multi-media project examining the history and development of the U.S. broadband network.
Produced and Directed by Fred Johnson VIEW FILM
2014
THE NETWORK PROJECT + OPEN ACCESS, David Olson and Net Neutrality
Portland, Oregon was the setting for the first great battle defining Net Neutrality as the core communications issue of the decade.
The Network Project is a multi-media project examining the history, development and federal policies impacting the U.S. broadband network.
Produced and Directed by Fred Johnson VIEW FILM
2014
THE ARTS MAKE SENSE
The Arts Make Sense is a video establishing the science foundations of how the arts make children better students. Featuring Media Working Group’s cross-disciplinary arts residence in an Ohio grade school.
Produced by Tim Kraus
View Film
1998
INFORMATION GARDEN MANIFESTO
How communications shape culture and who we are as individuals ~ a video art manifesto.
Produced and Directed by Fred Johnson
with Jean Donohue, Tim Kraus and Stephen Bagnall
1984
VIEW FILM
FREEDOM STICKER
An innovation in helping people survive human trafficking. Nina Bell and Oregon legislators launch this important campaign.
Produced and Directed by Jean Donohue
2016
VIEW FILM
BOYGIRL
A music video
Produced and Directed by Jean Donohue
Music produced and performed by Lydian Tone
VIEW FILM
1982
Wallace Black Elk ~ Chanupa, The Tree of Life
Wallace Black Elk, the last of the Black Elk lineage of the Lakota people gave this rare transmission on camera while visiting Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
1993
A DIVINE SYNTHESIS OF HIGH ART AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY: THE PERFECT VIDEOTAPE
John Hanhardt, curator of the Guggenheim’s Museum of American Art said, “The Perfect Videotape is on the lip of perfection.”