This film explores the shrinking middle class in American suburbs, in particular the Atlanta metro area. We witness and relate to the shock and denial that many families are living in as they struggle to make ends meet in hotel rooms, storage units, 18-wheeler trucks, tent cities, or the seats of their cars. It also explores problems the newly poor in suburbs face- including lack of transportation, jobs, affordable housing and safety net programs.
Filmed in a remote village in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains in Colombia for Survival International, a non-profit for tribal peoples' rights.
Short video about a rare type of persistent deja vu called deja vecu meaning Already Lived. Thinking of the condition as metaphor for the mundanity of life and the homogeneity of the landscape.
On an abandoned talc mine surrounded by the Kingston mountains in Death Valley, three local kids sit down on a cliff to have dinner. Poised on this edge behind millions of years of geologic time, their feet covered in the recent industrial past, the Kids have their dinner with Time.
Video for a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah. What happens to your sense of time at 700mph? Land speed designer and multi-record holder Jack Costella talks about it.
Produced a series of videos on a research initiative between Audi and Columbia University GSAPP to develop and test new paradigms in the relationship between motion, mobility and design. Interview with Mark Wigley, Dean of GSAPP.
Produced a series of videos on a research initiative between Audi and Columbia University GSAPP to develop and test new paradigms in the relationship between motion, mobility and design. Interview with Jurgen Mayer H. and Marc Kushner on their studio Under Over Out.
Produced a series of videos on a research initiative between Audi and Columbia University GSAPP to develop and test new paradigms in the relationship between motion, mobility and design. Interview with Jurgen Mayer H. and Marc Kushner on their studio Under Over Out.
Produced a series of videos on a research initiative between Audi and Columbia University GSAPP to develop and test new paradigms in the relationship between motion, mobility and design. Interview with Jeffrey Inaba on his studio Architecture After the Street.
Book trailer for Ginger Strand's new book Killer on the Road about violence and the American Interstate Highway.
Ongoing collaboration with Terreform ONE. Annual videos for ONE lab and ONE prize.
Behind the Scenes for British Marie Claire's April Cover shoot with Christina Ricci.
Never before seen video commission from 2006 of 12 videos on the 4 elements: Fire, Wind, Water and Earth. A search for Beauty in the ordinary. Video shown here is from from the Con Ed Plant on the East River, Manhattan.
Artist Jamie O’Shea builds an electric telegraph from scratch using only tools and materials found in the wilderness of New Jersey. Could the telegraph have existed in the Stone Age with the proper knowledge?
A group of scientists at the Mars Desert Research station simulate life on the Red Planet at a site close to Hanksville, Utah. They take a trip to Goblin Valley to conduct research, show us around the "hab", and tell us about life in analogue.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Three large trash dumpsters become swimming pools and an empty lot by the Gowanus Canal becomes an urban country club.
Raumlabor Berlin transforms the Eichbaum subway station into an opera house in direct confrontation with everyday conditions of the place.
An in-between space, a crack between two buildings becomes a nine-hole miniature golf course centered around sustainability.
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.
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.
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.
Three-minute story for video publisher Cinelan on experiments with moonlight using modern technology in the Sonoran desert.
Three-minute story for video publisher Cinelan on a 1970s experimental city and urban laboratory in the high desert of Arizona.
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.
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.
Preston Pittman, a professional turkey caller, tells the story of one bird he never caught.
John Demers was looking for black bears in Canada. Instead, he found a giant moose.
Gary Pintro encourages people to volunteer with the American Red Cross.
Danielle Block encourages people to volunteer with the American Red Cross.
Elaine Stalb encourages people to volunteer with the American Red Cross.
