Visit this web page and vote for former study abroad AUR alum Alex Moskowitz’s video Roma.
Note: when you open the page, you vote in the right-hand column.
Here is what Alex has to say about the video:
My first endeavor into the art of the video: I come from a photographic background with a general understanding of aesthetics. This video focuses on an intimate Rome—one that is not filled with monuments and tourism, but rather a Rome which is a city inhabited by actual people. There are a few mentions of the remnants of ancient Rome, but they appear in their contemporary sense—being surrounded by a city which does not directly suggest its great past. The film has a distinctly Roman sense to it which stops shorts of exploiting the city as an “other.” Joseph Brodsky in “Watermark” said that one must first be an “other” in order to notice, or reflect upon something—simultaneously one must begin to know the inherent workings of a place in order to understand it. In this film I have tried to do just that: relay a personal, yet relatable and non-exploitative artistic account of a place of beauty and filth.
—Alex Moskowitz
