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Episode Summary: Reality bites in this week’s gallery chat as Haddy talks about the aesthetics of information visualization in graphs and charts and Yassi talks about the ways in which surveillance culture blur art and reality. Documentary filmmaker Andy Sarjahani, this week’s interview guest, joins in the conversation sharing his experiences in how visual storytelling works to convey deep truths and tackles existential questions.  Andy Sarjahani (b. 1983, Richland, WA) is an American-Iranian documentary filmmaker and photographer raised in the Ozarks of Arkansas and currently based in East Tennessee. He is interested in people, our relationship to place and how that shapes our worldview. He has a Masters of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems from Montana State University and left his career in academia in 2012 to tell stories with a camera. He worked on the critically acclaimed documentary Tower (Keith Maitland, 2016) and his work has been featured in Vice, Outside, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and numerous other festivals and universities.  Find Andy Online WEBSITE/SOCIAL MEDIA www.andysarjahani.com www.instagram.com/andysarjahani WORK SAMPLES LAST DAYS OF TOYS R US (photo essay): https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/438awm/depressing-photos-from-the-last-days-of-toys-r-us HORNS OUT (short doc): https://rockandice.com/videos/climbing/horns-out-maurice-horn-reflects-lifetime-climbing/ DOWNSTREAM PEOPLE (short doc): https://vimeo.com/173096029  Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast) Take photos of anyone who see wearing Red and Black Plaid (“the shared fabric of humanity”) and tag us and Andy’s other instagram account: www.instagram.com/peoplewearingredandblackplaid  Mentioned in the Show Tangled Up in Blue NYTimes Corona Virus Article Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards Light Map Into Eternity (Swedish documentary about nuclear waste) The Truman Show Deepfakes We Live in Public You are Watching Me (Link to film no longer works) Errol Morris Cinema Verité Maysles Brothers 1619 Podcast  ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/app

Episode Summary: Reality bites in this week’s gallery chat as Haddy talks about the aesthetics of information visualization in graphs and charts and Yassi talks about the ways in which surveillance culture blur art and reality. Documentary filmmaker Andy Sarjahani, this week’s interview guest, joins in the conversation sharing his experiences in how visual storytelling works to convey deep truths and tackles existential questions. Andy Sarjahani (b. 1983, Richland, WA) is an American-Iranian documentary filmmaker and photographer raised in the Ozarks of Arkansas and currently based in East Tennessee. He is interested in people, our relationship to place and how that shapes our worldview. He has a Masters of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems from Montana State University and left his career in academia in 2012 to tell stories with a camera. He worked on the critically acclaimed documentary Tower (Keith Maitland, 2016) and his work has been featured in Vice, Outside, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and numerous other festivals and universities. Find Andy Online WEBSITE/SOCIAL MEDIA <a href="//www.andysarjahani.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.andysarjahani.com</a> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/andysarjahani" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/andysarjahani</a> WORK SAMPLES LAST DAYS OF TOYS R US (photo essay): <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/438awm/depressing-photos-from-the-last-days-of-toys-r-us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/438awm/depressing-photos-from-the-last-days-of-toys-r-us</a> HORNS OUT (short doc): <a href="https://rockandice.com/videos/climbing/horns-out-maurice-horn-reflects-lifetime-climbing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://rockandice.com/videos/climbing/horns-out-maurice-horn-reflects-lifetime-climbing/</a> DOWNSTREAM PEOPLE (short doc): <a href="https://vimeo.com/173096029" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/173096029</a> Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast) Take photos of anyone who see wearing Red and Black Plaid (“the shared fabric of humanity”) and tag us and Andy’s other instagram account: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/peoplewearingredandblackplaid" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/peoplewearingredandblackplaid</a> Mentioned in the Show <a href="https://youtu.be/YwSZvHqf9qM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tangled Up in Blue</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-coronavirus-deaths-100000.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NYTimes Corona Virus Article</a> <a href="https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards</a> <a href="https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/4257" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Light Map</a> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194612/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Into Eternity</a> (Swedish documentary about nuclear waste) <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Truman Show</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/business/pentagons-race-against-deepfakes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deepfakes</a> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498329/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We Live in Public</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/xy49e7/watch-a-real-life-truman-show-starring-all-of-us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">You are Watching Me</a> (Link to film no longer works) <a href="https://errolmorris.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Errol Morris</a> <a href="https://indiefilmhustle.com/cinema-verite/#:~:text=Cinema%20Verite%20is%20a%20French,in%20day%20to%20day%20lives." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cinema Verité</a> <a href="http://mayslesfilms.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maysles Brothers</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1619 Podcast</a> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a>

Episode 16: Art If...you just show this story! With documentary filmmaker and photographer, Andy Sarjahani

Guest Andy Sarjahani, M.S., R.D., documentary film maker discusses his film, Downstream People about the politics and public health threats of an industrial hog facility on water quality in the National Buffalo River watershedDownstream People

Guest Andy Sarjahani, M.S., R.D., documentary film maker discusses his film, Downstream People about the politics and public health threats of an industrial hog facility on water quality in the National Buffalo River watershed <a href="https://vimeo.com/173096029" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Downstream People</a>

Andy Sarjahani, M.S., R.D. Interview