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February 2, 2010
A boondoggle in our backyard
meerkat media arts collective
by dara
meerkat media has officially unveiled its award-winning documentary short, Brooklyn Boondoggle.
A year and a half ago, a group of filmmakers went out to shoot a protest. It would be a short little piece, poetic and informed, and go viral among various community groups and activist sites. For me personally, it would also be the first time to work with Meerkats. How could I say no? The project happened to be about the lot of land that sat outside of my window, the Atlantic Yards. I also knew about the controversy that surrounded it and was eager to get involved in the debate. Brooklyn Boondoggle seemed like the perfect fit — work with nice people that had just become my neighbors about a subject all too politically and socially relevant to ignore.
Needless to say, one shoot at a protest turned into days into weeks into a full-blown project for the Collective. And as I am now awakened by bulldozers at 7:45am, protests have turned into endless legal battles into the construction we were all hoping to forestall.
...This is for you Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Boondoggle from meerkatmedia.org on Vimeo.
Posted by eric at February 2, 2010 11:30 AM