Direct-action cinema, experimental television, documentary and community media projects
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PILOT TV: EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA FOR FEMINIST TRESPASS
"Imagine a three story media production studio that appears for one weekend, brings hundreds of queer and feminist independent media producers together for the videotaping and staging of their own 'television shows', talk shows, historical reenactments and skill-sharing workshops. In 2004, Pilot TV did just that by creating a unique space for collaboration, asking questions and building community in a wonderful and experimental temporary autonomous television studio.." [READ, WATCH MORE...] |
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CITY FROM BELOW VIDEO
As the documentation coordinator for the 2009 City From Below conference, my goal was to facilitate interviews and flip-camera distribution among participants; To stream live audio and to record (and upload) video of every conference session. You can see all the uploaded documentation here at the City From Below website. It is all free to use, under Creative Commons license, in documentaries, class curriculums, etc. Along with Not an Alternative, I also conducted an extended interview about squatting, cross-racial solidarity, and social movement strategy with Max Rameau of Take Back the Land. |
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VIDEO ACTIVISM / JOURNALISM
This October marks two years since the Iraq Veteran Against the War (IVAW) protest at the final presidential debates at Hofstra. IVAW member Nick Morgan was crushed that night under the hooves of a mounted police officer, later suffering extreme mistreatment while in police custody. I captured video of what happened, which you can see here and the vivid still images here. The footage aired on Democracy Now, as well as some other alternative outlets, despite an overall media blackout of the story. I repost it tonight, as Nick's case aginst the Long Island police department has yet to go to trial, and he is still waiting for justice. |
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UNIDAD / PEOPLES' PLAN
While the City of Los Angeles and neighboring USC are each currently preparing their own Master Plans for development of the Figueroa Corridor neighborhood, the resident-led UNIDAD coalition are developing their own participatory planning campaign- 'The People's Plan'. Coalition partners also include the always inspiring Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (S.A.J.E.). I'm currently working on a short doc/advocacy video for them, and I'm excited to see how far they're able to push the limits of the 'participatory planning' model and where they go with the community planning initiatives like the Figueroa Community Land Trust. |
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TV L'OSTIA
TV L'Ostia was a neighborhood television network that I helped organize in the Barceloneta neighborhood in Barcelona. Inspired by a visit from Venezuela's community-organized television station 'Catia TV', TV L'Ostia was an attempt to create a neighborhood-based network for TV production and exhibition; by, for, and about the Barceloneta. Inspired by one of our collaborators from the Italian 'Telestreets' movement, our 'transmissions' were organized simply as a simultaneous public projection of TV L'Ostia throughout the neighborhood; in Bars, cafes, corner stores, and projected on the street. |
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RETOOLING DISSENT
This video marks a period of dissent and experimentation around the February 2002 meeting of the World Economic Forum in Manhattan. The global elite attending the annual conference, usually held in Davos Switzerland, carved the streets of New York City into a police state. Meanwhile artists and activists, tactical media practitioners from around the world, created new tools and held workshops intending to send a clear message: The September 11th attacks will NOT gag the critiques of globalization. This video explores the collaborations and ideas of four collectives working on projects at the WEF protests. Projects include: modified bikes for printing messages on the streets as you ride by the Bikewriter/Affectech group from Boston; 'Pret-a-revolter' (ready to revolt) protest fashions, New Kids on the Black Block and photo-show Ya Basta! Style sheilds by the Barcelona Las Agencias; protest technologies as well as large scale graphics by the StreetRec collective; and I-see, a web-based application developed by the Institute for Applied Autonomy, which shows users the location of surveillance cameras in Manhattan and allows them to chart their own path of least surveillance. This video was produced by the StreetRec collective, and can be watched online. |
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WORKS IN PROGRESS
Information about Works in progress & animations coming soon.. |