Mid-Market Artists, Art Groups, Community Groups... we want your voices
We been researching the film for a little over 9 months now and when we looked around, we found that a lot of the revitalization efforts were focused (appropriately) on the buildings or the street or the SRO's or the businesses. We wondered how this revitalization is going to effect the thousands of people who live, work and play in the area. We wanted to know who they are. Do they have an opinion about what happens to their home? What would they like to have changed? We wanted to meet them, give them a voice, hear their stories and let them tell us about about their hopes and dreams. But, how do you add so many voices to a 60/90 minute doc?
So, in order to effectively include more folks then what would normally be allotted for film “characters”, we will be adding an augmented reality component to the traditional film through the use of a dedicated channel on a mobile phone app. This dedicated channel will allow users to virtually interact with the "five blocks" by pointing their mobile devices at a location within the area that has been previously geo-tagged with community created content (videos, photos, audio, art, technology etc) and thereby become a part of a walking, living documentary. The community will be invited to develop content through the use of “tag teams” composed of residents, photographers, artists, and neighborhood groups who will potentially add hundreds and hundreds of voices to the project - voices that may never have been heard. Joining together with the community, we will be able to produce and curate a crowd-sourced, immersive, non-linear documentary on a mobile platform.
The response, in our very recent and limited outreach, has been beyond our wildest assumptions. In addition to some of our already filmed footage including interviews with San Francisco Mayor Lee and other SF notables (Darryl Smith from the Luggage Store, David Addington at the Warfield, Larry Harvey from Burning Man etc) , we have secured commitments from non-profit community organizations. We have been granted free access to one of the most complete private archives of photos and videos of the central Market Street area and have been offered new material from a Eugene Smith and Getty award winning photographer. Also included will be art compilations from groups of 6th Street artists and confirmed participation from San Francisco Art Institute's documentary studies program.
We would like to invite you to participate in the project.
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, Hospitality House Community Arts Program
