Kelly Loudenberg, Producer/Director

New York City
kelly@kellyloudenberg.com

Documentary Films & Commercials

New Urbanism: Mobile Office

Kyle Minor, a San Francisco-based designer and artist, bought an industrial-grade double wide trailer from some fisherman with the intention of moving it onto a piece of land and living outside of the city. When he dragged it down to the end of a pier on San Francisco Bay next to his shop, he realized it worked better right where it was. Now he has sold it as an alternative office space to a group of prolific inventors.

New Urbanism: Pavement to Parks

The city of San Francisco and architecture collective, Rebar, transform a dangerous intersection in the Portero neighborhood into a temporary public park. The "Pavements to Parks" projects seek to temporarily reclaim unused swathes of asphalt and quickly and inexpensively turn them into new public plazas and parks.

New Urbanism: Urban Forest

A forest with native and non-native plants featuring artists from San Francisco and around the world. What was an alley riddled with crime is opened up to the public as a place to play and daydream.

New Urbanism: Trailer Park

Trailer Park is a portable, natural, public park housed inside a Coachmen Travel Trailer. The interior is fully planted, designed, and treated as a "real" park. "If you cannot go to the park, the park can go to you. Trailer Park's transformation is so complete, it brings nature to us, making us the destination."

New Urbanism: The Waterpod

The Waterpod, a 30-by-100-foot barge, is a project studying self-sufficient water-based living. Four artists will attempt to live exclusively on board for the next five months.

New Urbanism: Rooftop Farms

A short documentary about a 6,000-square-foot farm on the roof of a warehouse in Brooklyn. With over thirty different varieties of fruits and vegetables, Rooftop Farms is larger and more experimental than most other rooftop farms and gardens. Now a commercial farm, they bike produce to nearby restaurants.

New Urbanism: Dumpster Pools

Three large trash dumpsters become swimming pools and an empty lot by the Gowanus Canal becomes an urban country club.

New Urbanism: Subway Opera

Raumlabor Berlin transforms the Eichbaum subway station into an opera house in direct confrontation with everyday conditions of the place.

New Urbanism: The Putting Lot

An in-between space, a crack between two buildings becomes a nine-hole miniature golf course centered around sustainability.

New Urbanism: Tent City

Inspired by the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression artists and activists take down a fence, transforming a vacant lot (owned by JPMorgan Chase Bank) into a living, temporary village.

New Urbanism: Grow Shelter

The Grow Shelter is a living environment where humans, plants, and animals can co-exist. It consists of three connected spheres covered in earth and seeds. The habitat evolves with the seasons showing the cycle of life.

New Urbanism: Rooftop Dwelling

Terreform, a nonprofit architecture collective transforms the rooftop of a building in downtown Brooklyn into a shelter and farm for urban refugees- people displaced by the mortgage crisis. Their two-week project, called Terrefarm, used only materials found in the building, and involved students and teachers from around the world.

Lunar Healing

Three-minute story for video publisher Cinelan on experiments with moonlight using modern technology in the Sonoran desert

Arcosanti

Three-minute story for video publisher Cinelan on a 1970s experimental city and urban laboratory in the high desert of Arizona.

Life on the Lava Flow, Part 1

The Powers family lived in front of an active volcano for decades before the lava finally came down and hit their house. The volcano is still active and the lava is still flowing, so this time, they built a smaller house.

Life on the Lava Flow, Part 2

The Esposito family lives on top of the lava flow in a bus powered by solar and wind power. They don't have too much to worry about in case of a recession.

Versus Country Commercials, 1/5

Preston Pittman, a professional turkey caller, tells the story of one bird he never caught.

Versus Country Commercials, 2/5

John Demers was looking for black bears in Canada. Instead, he found a giant moose.

American Red Cross Commercials, 1/21

Gary Pintro encourages people to volunteer with the American Red Cross.

American Red Cross Commercials, 2/21

Danielle Block encourages people to volunteer with the American Red Cross.

American Red Cross Commercials, 3/21

Elaine Stalb encourages people to volunteer with the American Red Cross.

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Kelly Loudenberg, Producer/Director, New York City, kelly@kellyloudenberg.com