Termite TV

Termite TV Collective makes media to challenge rigid structures through formal disruption, experimental methods, and community engagement. Just as the subterranean termite tears away at structural foundations through ingenuity and collective practice, Termite TV Collective believes that an expanded visual language is the vehicle for imagining new futures and provoking new thinking on pressing issues of our time. They work collectively and collaboratively, encouraging the freedom to explore with a sense of playfulness, spontaneity, and discovery. Through individual expression radiating out from common themes, Termite TV co-creates space for idea sharing and collective world-building.

Grants Awarded to Termite TV

$75,000 - Awarded August 2021

Focus areas

Representation in Media

Description

To co-create a Virtual Reality (VR) project with Latinx and Cambodian community leaders and amplify the stories of their communities through the “Places of Power” documentary and web-based app. The project invites viewers to experience disinvested neighborhoods in Philadelphia anew, as a tapestry of knowledge, healing, and civic leadership. Recipient of 2021 Community Voices grant.

$20,000 - Awarded July 2020

Focus areas

Representation in Media

Description

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support continued production of “Places of Power” an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) documentary and web-based app inviting viewers to experience disinvested neighborhoods in Philadelphia anew, as a tapestry of knowledge, healing, and civic leadership. The project will feature and engage community residents in immersive media using virtual reality. It will explore themes related to the unseen power held by longtime residents and spaces in a neighborhood.

Related Projects

A person with gray dreads using their phone to take a picture of a photo mounted to a tree

"Places of Power"

Community Storytelling