D2E 2009: Video Project
For those of you that were fortunate enough to catch some or all of our video project – below is a breakdown of the films that were submitted. We were very impressed with the amount of submissions – as well as their diversity and quality.
PROGRAM 1 Saturday 12:45 am -1:15 pm
Highlights
Peace Garden — John Coyne (3:47)
Sustain+ability – Cary and Yari Wolinsky at Trillium Studios (5:45)
Agent 350 — Scott Cushing and Jordan Murphy, Changents.com (2:58)
Studying toads on Cape Cod — Todd Tupper and Mark Adams (5:00)
Shadow of Time — Catherine Widgery (6:27)
Climate Change? – Boston Harbor Harbor Island Ambasadors (6:00)
Total running time: 29:57
PROGRAM 2 Saturday 5:00 – 6:00 pm
Peace Garden — John Coyne (3:47). Boston videographer profiles a community garden.
Aquafinito — Annalise Littman and the ICA (10:00) Boston high school student Annalise Littman provides astute documentary analysis of how the consumer market turns water into a commodity at great cost to the environment.
Sustain+ability – Cary and Yari Wolinsky at Trillium Studios (5:45)
National Geographic photographer captures a cross section of opinions on how we are responsible for our own well being.
Studying the toads of Cape Cod – Mark Adams and Todd Tupper (5:00). How the knowledge of amphibians can enhance our enjoyment of coastal landscapes.
B-Flat – Adam Frelin (4:34). A contemplative river journey based on a single note by conceptual artist and associate professor of sculpture at SUNY Albany.
Agent 350 — Scott Cushing and Jordan Murphy, Changents.com (2:58). Changents profiles a 24-year-old activitist on finding a simple message to engage the public and target carbon emissions.
Shadow of Time — Catherine Widgery (6:27). A public artist based in Montreal, Cambridge and Cape Cod captures a contemplation on the passage of time and the play of light on a pond in India.
Climate Change? — Boston Harbor Island Ambassadors (6:00). Inner city Boston students discuss how climate change affects their everyday concerns and expectations for their future lives as adults.
The Trees Have No Tongues — Linda Price-Sneddon (4:45). An ambient poetic montage of New England forests as the threatened foundation of landscape integrity.
Whiplash – Cary and Yari Wolinsky at Trillium Studios (4:56). Performance poet Lauren Whitehead of Youthspeaks.org delivers a passionate broadside for environmental justice.
History of Maps — Carlos Ferguson (3:01) Multi media artist and Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown constructs an animated vision of the world seen by a beehive.
Running time: 57:02
PROGRAM 3 Sunday 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Big Green Bus — Earthkeepers, Changents.com (3:58)
Bumpkin Island Tin Can Communication — Sam Smiley, Astrodime Transit Authority (7:31). Boston digital artist Sam Smiley presents a pseudo documentary of appropriate technology in the Boston Harbor Islands.
Portraying Franklin Park’s Gorillas — Justin Freed and Jen Bradley (7:19). Boston videographer Justin Freed profiles artist Jen Bradley and her 10-year intimate quest to capture the personalities of Boston’s gorillas.
The Incoming Tide — Chris Hamilton (5:00). Whale videographer and sailor plays with time and examines the flow of tidewater in a Cape Cod lagoon.
Sweet Crude — and Kate Wolf (6:00). Footage from a forthcoming documentary about how multi-national oil exploitation in Nigeria undermines the lives and livelihoods of African villagers.
Paper Man – Tony Rizzi (4:28) Dancer/choreographer from Boston and Frankfurt explores how a deluge of paper consumes and buries us.
The Ladder/ Fence Thief – Adam Frelin (3:50). A wry fable on the imperative to organize and frame nature by conceptual artist and associate professor of sculpture at SUNY Albany.
Listen to your Mother — Zoe Lewis and Mark Adams (3:00). Cape Cod singer-songwriter summarizes geologic time.
Jetty Orbit – Ted Olier (3:00). Boston conceptual artist gives a birds-eye perspective of a coastal structure.
Youthcan (5:00). The search to build a curriculum about sustainability for the Boston Schools.
Climate Change? — Boston Harbor Island Ambassadors (6:00). Inner city Boston students discuss how climate change affects their everyday concerns and expectations for their future lives as adults.
History of Popcorn – Carlos Ferguson (1:55) Multi media artist and Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown constructs an animated vision of the how popcorn was discovered.
59:10

The History of Popcorn and The History of Maps were created by the Tiny Circus, a collaborative art group.