Pan Left Productions

Here's a little experimental video I made from footage I shot last weekend at this incredible and fun outdoor music event in downtown Tucson, The Festival En El Barrio Viejo. A benefit for Tucson community radio station KXCI, the festival featured Calexico, along with this band, Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta, as well as several other Tucson acts.

For this video I was named winner of last weekend's Vimeo Weekend Project contest and awarded a free Vimeo Plus account.

The clip features a voicemail left for me 8 years ago by a friend who was arranging a music gig for me in Portland, as well as lots of twiddly video processing using Apple Motion to auto-scrub and auto-blend footage in sync with different frequencies and peaks in both audio tracks.

Another video leftover from last year's Calexico benefit show for us. via AGITALPROP
http://www.agitalprop.com/sergio-mendoza-y-la-orkesta-cover-leda-atomica...

On January 16 the masses gathered in Phoenix to march for human rights and demand action from the Obama administration to stop the abuses by Sheriff Joe Arpaio . The momentum towards change is getting stronger. Mi video is heavy on poetic aesthetic and light on news info., so if you need to get educated on the matter I suggest... http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arpaio • http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/ and info. on the movement is here... http://puenteaz.org/ and of course mas to come on my end soon, but until then Zack's palabras will do just fine for now. P@z.

Get on YouTube, rate it high, and leave some good comments (fight back the haters por favor). Also on Vimeo

ok documentary buffs and fellow panlefties/DIY filmmakahs. book mark this website now!
http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/capturing-reality/

Pick your favorite doc. maker and get to know new ones. Time to get learned from this amazing catalog of experienced voices in documentaries. Take note Pan Left we could do this too, can u imagine all the collective and people we know doing a similar site? Imagine.

David Lynch has a new web series called Interview Project which are interviews (I assume video; see earlier Lynch charla) with "every day" people encountered on a cross country road trip. Sounds like familiar road trip genre stuff and Lynch always gathers the critic crowd, so debates will begin, but after watching the first two episodes and the trailer, they're interesting from a "get to know your neighbor" perspective. The cinematography looks great and I tend to take notice of the simple minimal stuff these days since I need some reprogramming from my MTV youth, so i'll keep tuning in. However...

not sure how the critics and bloggers will rate this new Lynch project, but i'm willing to bet he'll receive some acclaim for creating this kind of docu-web series. So it occurred to me that if you like this kind of approach there's another great docu-web series that's been around a while and has a similar style. The videos from Center for Creative Chaos has some excellent on-the-scene videos with homeless people in their web series, and although the theme might be different from Lynch's project; I felt a similar vibe to the connection being created with people on camera and so far I've found their stores more compelling. So I want to give a salud to, Ron Austin, the producer with the homeless documentary team at Center for Creative Chaos who creates media that doesn't get noticed like Lynch, but are no less important.

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/
http://community.centerforcreativechaos.com/