Imagination
12/10/2018 | 3m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
IMAGINATION, a film by Roodo Abdikadir.
A teenager sits transfixed in front of the TV all day, mindlessly absorbing negative images and prompting her mother to scold her. After a horrifying dream, the teen takes her mother’s advice to heart, unlocking a world of imagination and poetry from within.
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Muslim Youth Voices is a production of the Center for Asian American Media. Funding provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Imagination
12/10/2018 | 3m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
A teenager sits transfixed in front of the TV all day, mindlessly absorbing negative images and prompting her mother to scold her. After a horrifying dream, the teen takes her mother’s advice to heart, unlocking a world of imagination and poetry from within.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(distorted audio playing) MOTHER: (continues speaking native language) (muffled TV audio playing) (muffled TV audio continues) ♪ (door slams, echoes) (gasping) MAN: A brain that lacks imagination tastes much, much better.
(cackling) (cackling distorts) GIRL: My mom was right.
I should have used my imagination.
MAN: Give me your brain.
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Muslim Youth Voices is a production of the Center for Asian American Media. Funding provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges Program and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.