The Tank

The Tank is a non-profit space for performing and visual arts in New York City.  It provides a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas.  Through a wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affiars programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists. Randy Bell is a founder of The Tank and its artistic director for film and video.

   

Wall to Wall: Kulture Vultures of the Cold War

A short video for WSJ. Magazine's Wall to Wall blog about the American Exposition in Moscow in 1959.

   

SURVING KENYA

A short news piece about the December 2007-January 2008 post-election violence in Kenya.

 

FOOD FIGHT

The Ethiopia segment for an hour-long special on the global food crisis.

   

Manhattan, Kansas is Tara Wray's personal documentary about a daughter coping with her mentally unstable mother. It delves into the complicated ways people care for one another, and offers insight into the mind of a parent struggling for physical and emotional survival, and the effects this has on those who love her.  Randy is a DP and co-producer of Manhattan, Kansas.

 

   

African Lens: The Story of Priya Ramrakha is Shravan Vidyarthi's documentary about Priya Ramrakha, a remarkable photographer who defined his career by embracing the people and events of Africa as a personal subject.  One of Africa's first international photojournalists, Ramrakha was killed when he was 33 years old while on assignment for Life magazine covering the civil war in Biafra Nigeria. Randy is editor and co-producer of the film.

   

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