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River and Rapids (2009) Music video for the song "River and Rapids" by Arborea (Copyright 2009, Shanti and Buck Curran (ASCAP)). This piece was filmed alongside the Androscoggin River in Lewiston, Maine, on a cold and windy day in April. |  |
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Neighbor by Neighbor: Mobilizing an Invisible Community in Lewiston, Maine (2009) In the summer of 2004, the Mayor of Lewiston, Maine announced a plan to develop a four-lane boulevard across downtown’s low-income neighborhood and displace 850 residents from their homes. As tragic as the circumstances were, the threat of a road destroying the neighborhood required residents to rise to the challenge of becoming community organizers. Instead of allowing their neighborhood to be paved over, the residents of downtown organized themselves into a group called “The Visible Community.” What happened next was an incredible story of people coming together to protect their homes, hold their political leaders accountable, and work towards creating a democratic planning process that honored the input of low-income people as much as any other person’s voice.
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300 This is Revisionism (2008) is a remix of the film "300," about the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae. Our remix is a short video that deconstructs the archetypes used to tell the story in 300 by comparing how these same characterizations of GOOD and EVIL have been used in Hollywood cinema throughout history. WARNING: This video contains some graphic violence from the original film.
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Moth (2007) Moth is a short movie and music video for the song "Moth," by folk singer/songwriter Denise Dill. It was filmed around some old railroad tracks and an abandoned brick building with some really crazy smoke stack in the middle of it. Pigeons seem to have made a nice home for themselves there. It's a very cool place. |
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DE-INTERLACED (2005) This feature acts as a mass media survival guide for the informed citizen, describing the forces that shape our mainstream media system -- politics, advertising, government, and technology. These forces are then used to describe why some issues are covered (Tsunami, Martha Stuart, Paris Hilton, Street Crime), why some issues are not covered (gentrification, Free Trade Agreements, Third World Genocide), and why only the most homogenized content makes it through the Hollywood system. It then highlights what alternative forms of media are resisting these trends. Interviews include: Scott Beibin (Lost Film Fest), Penny Lane (Indymedia), Richard Rhames (Biddeford Public Access), Steve Thaxton (Gannet Broadcasting), Mary Caroline Powers (Broadcast Journalism), Noam Chomsky (Co-author of Manufacturing Consent), and more... Review it on IMDB |
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Get Off The Truck (2005) In May 2005, three fresh new Black Factory employees – David, Pasqualina, and Nathaniel – are run through a galloping two-week rehearsal in preparation for the upcoming Black Factory national tour. The CEO of the Factory, William Pope.L, invites a young filmmaker into the intriguing yet elusive process of training performance artists to change the world. Soon serious questions arise concerning the CEO’s ethics and how his medical problems are affecting the rehearsal. The result is a rare, funny, sweet, and quirky perspective on the process and sacrifices necessary to the making of socially conscious performance art.
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Man Wakes In Field (2004) In the tradition of French and British New Wave: a young man awakens to find himself in a field, alone, angry, and wearing a pair of tighty-whities. Our hero, who goes unnamed, wanders his way through the streets and back roads of Lewiston-Auburn, in search of absolutely nothing. He meets an odd cross section of characters, including Ares, the Greek god of war, who has taken the form of an organic farmer to restore balance to the war between plant and human. The film was produced in 7 days from concept to final cut. |
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And/Or (2005) Punk Rock show in the basement of the bangarang collective. You may recognize the lead singer as one of RPM's producers.
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March for Womens Lives (2004) Over 1 million women gathered in Washington DC to celebrate past legal victories that support the economic, social, and political rights of women, as well as bring attention to current efforts that threaten those rights. |
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Burden of Mind (2004) A short film that compares the primitive environment in which the human mind evolved to the present environment in which the same mind must exist.
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W is Not For Women (2004) Laura Bush speaks at the Lewiston Franco-American Heritage Center on the topic of why W stands for women. Protestors host a birth control workshop, advocating sexual education over the ABC plan. |
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6 Kids from Maine vs. The FTAA in Miami (2004) In the early morning on November 19th, six kids from Maine headed to Miami to protest the FTAA. If you know anything about that protest, you know that shit got crazy. This is a film about the grassroots solidarity that persisted in the face of extreme police brutality on the part of the MPD. |
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