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Voices from the Backside

Voices from the Backside

Voices from the Backside – a trailer for a documentary length video

Historical Background:
Those who work on the backside of Suffolk Downs, the racetrack in East …

How to Fight: Portrait of Joyce Watson

How to Fight: Portrait of Joyce Watson

“How To Fight,” an experimental video documentary using video footage, interviews and black-and-white photographs, explores the outcome of an immigrant’s struggle to provide …

Identity

Identity

When my daughter moved back from L.A., I started video taping her improvisations of various characters. She has designed an extensive project to be shown in a gallery with large co…

Six Short Videos

Six Short Videos

When I started working on “Fight,” I knew something about videotaping because I’d become fascinated by the medium when I was teaching at MIT. Ricky Leacock was teaching there…