DC Documentations

WHERE THE GARDEN STOOD
sound and image documentation, not a film!- yet...

working in collaboration with Lex Everheart and in association with Richard Blakeslee

(release planned for 2008, video, 1hour)

In 2006, Six square blocks of residences and businesses in Southeast Washington, DC were cleared to make way for the Washington Nationals Stadium . This is material from that neighborhood seen and heard from the perspectives of a dozen members of the diverse and charismatic people who had lived and worked there for decades. In addition to their personal stories and excerpts of off-key media coverage are collected materials related to:
1) the larger issue of eminent domain (government property seizure)
2)the surreal carnival atmosphere and airs of corruption surrounding DC politics.

with neighbors:

Alton Majette, Thomas Butler, Joe Woodridge, Rosa B. Davis, Joe Lukaesko, Eung Chung, Patricia Ghiglino, Reinaldo Lopèz, Robert Siegel, Leo Smith, Kenneth Wyban, several anonymous interlocutors.

Washington DC "Personalities":

Charlie Brotman, James Brown, David Catania, Linda Cropp, Jack Evans, Adrian Fenty, Sharon Ambrose, Carol Schwartz, Marion Barry, Kwame Brown, Vincent Gray, Theodore Lerner, Mayor Anthony Williams.

A Brief History of Protest in DC, 1967 to 1997

(125 min., video, 1997)

Compilation of archive film and video footage and excerpts of films with a focus on protest as creative expression, from riots to sit-ins. Includes footage from the infamous Video Freex collective and the legendary The Newsreel. Created with the assistance of The Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran.