Filming as loving
Our film practice begins with LOVE.
Film projects are long term commitments that span years in order to really see life through the eyes of our NEIGHBORS.
Films are the artifacts of LISTENING, and the result of connecting.
Filming is a hand-held, heart-led COMMITMENT to building depth through shared experience.
With each film project, we ask: Who are our neighbors? Where can we CONNECT? What can we learn from each other? And what can we share with others?
APPLE POND FARM
APPLE POND FARM & RENEWABLE ENERGY EDUCATION CENTER is an 80 acre organic farm in Callicoon Center, NY.
Founded in 1973 by Sonja Hedlund and Dick Riseling they have fostered countless generations of YOUNG FARMERS.
On April 22nd, 2023 their homestead endured a powerful TORNADO. Watch this VIDEO to hear about their experience.
Dick and Sonja have a profound reverence for EARTH and a deep connection with ANIMALS. Watch this FILM about Dick and his horses.
Lenape Nation
of Pennsylvania
We work with the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania to help PRESERVE their way of life.
We also support their fight for STATE RECOGNITION. Watch this VIDEO of their peaceful demonstration in Harrisburg, PA.
Every 4 years they spend 3 weeks paddling the Delaware River RENEWING the Treaty of Renewed Friendship with neighbors of all kinds.
The journey is a joint effort to raise awareness, AWAKEN the spirit, and bestow the past, environmentally, culturally and historically, to the future.
Check out this short FILM of their river journey.
TERRELL HOMES
The Terrell Homes film initiative documents the fight for PUBLIC HOUSING in Newark, New Jersey.
Told through multiple perspectives over 5 years, the film centers on a resilient Black and Brown MATRIARCHY living in Terrell Homes, a 275 unit public housing complex,
The film features PERSONAL narratives of residents, neighbors, activists and government officials.
And traces tedious meetings, protests, DAILY LIFE, moments of prayer, singing and the passage of time.
ACCESS GOVERNMENT
Access Government is a public archive of 263 local government meetings, intimately filmed from 2012-2015 in Sullivan County, NY, to show the faces and exchanges between ACTIVE CITIZENS and elected officials.
Films increased PARTICIPATION in local government, inspired the County Legislature to install a camera to film all meetings, raised awareness of social inequities in meeting culture and were used to supplement social studies classes at our local high school.