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Shell
& Bertozzi after a long shoot in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2006.
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Hanna Rose Shell and Vanessa Bertozzi are a media production team. Shell is currently an assistant professor at MIT in the Program in Science, Technology and Society. Bertozzi is Director of Community and Education at Etsy.com, an online marketplace connecting consumers and independent artists and vintage sellers.
Shell & Bertozzi’s collaboration in Secondhand (Pepe) draws on their complementary professional and academic backgrounds in documentary filmmaking, visual & oral history, and new media education. Their collaboration grew out of their friendship and mutual interest in thrifting, filmmaking and cultural studies.
Sound design for the film is by friend Luke Fischbeck (Lucky
Dragons).
SHELL
Hanna Rose Shell is a historian of science and media, and a filmmaker. She is an Assistant Professor at MIT and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2007-2011). Shell received a Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard in 2007 and an M.A. in American Studies from Yale University in 2002. She completed her A.B. at Harvard College (History and Science). She was elected as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2007. Shell’s book "Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography and the Media of Reconnaissance," is forthcoming from Zone Books in 2012. Please email her at hrshell(at)mit.edu.
BERTOZZI
Vanessa Bertozzi is a Brooklyn-based documentarian specializing in the interplay between culture, media, technology and learning. She received a Masters Degree in Comparative Media Studies from MIT in 2006 and a B.A. in Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard in 2001. Recent media projects on which she has worked include: Project New Media Literacy sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, Christopher Lydon's public radio/web program Open Source, Alan Berliner’s Wide Awake, Frontline's Failure to Protect, Showtime's Same Sex America, The Sonic Memorial Project (winner of the Peabody Award, Gracie Award, and Online Journalism Award), and History Unwired at the Venice Biennale. Bertozzi has lectured on new media and learning at MIT. She now works for Etsy, a global online marketplace where consumers buy directly from artists and vintage sellers. More about Vanessa on her website.
Locomotion in Water (15min; Videre la Scienza Festival of Science Film 07,Anthology Film Archives 06, Cinema Arts Centre 06, Orphans Documentary Film Conference 06, Center for the Arts at SUNY 05, Margaret Mead Film And Video Festival 05, TopKino! 05, Scinema: International Festival of Science Film 05, Lago International Film Festival 05, Naples International Film Festival 05).
Collections (15min, 2005).
Petticoat Lane at the Venice Biennale (40min; “Cities, Architecture and Society” exhibition at the Architecture Biennale 06).
Aqua Kinema (90min; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie 05).
The Polyvocal Object: An Interactive Multi-media Exhibit (2004; Installed in the permanent gallery of the Harvard Museum of Historical Scientific Instruments).
The Sonic Memorial Project (interactive web piece, SXSW 03, Media that Matters 03, The Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition— September 11: Bearing Witness to History, 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam).
History Unwired (interactive mobile media project; 2005 Venice Biennale).