{"id":931,"date":"2019-03-19T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.termite.org\/timeline\/?p=931"},"modified":"2021-02-16T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:29:57","slug":"immersion-in-immigrant-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/immersion-in-immigrant-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersion in Immigrant Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Corn4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-932\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Corn4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Corn4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Corn4-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz and her team shed light on immigrant life through two 360\u00ba videos that profile the experiences of an upstate New York community, Saratoga Springs, which is a hotspot for ICE raids. The films, which take the shape of immersive metaphoric ICE interrogations, help viewers understand the experience of strengthening one&#8217;s own identity and building community bonds within systems that foster isolation and othering. The project aims to weave a tapestry of voices and experiences, delving into the complex lives of the minority community members who have been involved every step of the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is produced in collaboration with the<a href=\"https:\/\/saratogaeoc.org\/\"> Economic Opportunity Council of Saratoga County<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/publicvrlab.squarespace.com\/arrival\/\"> The Public VR Lab of Brookline Interactive Group<\/a>; and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skidmore.edu\/mdocs\/\"> MDOCS Community Partnerships Program at Skidmore College.<\/a> They are supported by The Philadelphia Independent Media Finishing Fund administered by <a href=\"https:\/\/scribe.org\/\">Scribe Video Center<\/a> with funds provided by the Wyncote Foundation. The films will be presented at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visibleevidence.org\/conference\/visible-evidence-xxv\/\">Visible Evidence<\/a> conference in the summer of 2019.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz and her team shed light on immigrant life through two 360\u00ba videos that profile the experiences of an upstate New York community, Saratoga Springs, which is a hotspot for ICE raids. The films, which take the shape of immersive metaphoric ICE interrogations, help viewers understand the experience of strengthening one&#8217;s own identity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,13],"tags":[27,23,26,25],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-stories","category-termite-timeline","category-the-living-documentary-termite-timeline","tag-27","tag-aggie-bazaz","tag-documentary","tag-life-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}