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March 29, 2011
Morgan Spurlock, Filmmaker
Here's Park Slope
Morgan Spurlock is no fan of the corporatization of New York City.
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking 2004 film Super Size Me, in which he ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days and ended up 24 lbs. heavier, with the liver of a chronic alcoholic. Born in West Virginia, he recently moved back to Park Slope after living in Fort Greene for the past couple years, and is glad to be back. We met up this morning at Cafe Martin and discussed his background, his love of Park Slope, and his newest project, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, a documentary about finding product placement and sponsors for that documentary, in theaters April 22nd.
...HPS: What's your ultimate goal with this film?
Morgan: What I would love to see happen is for people to become so incredibly aware of the amount of marketing happening in their lives that we start to question how much sponsorship we want in our daily lives. Does everything need to be brought to you by some sponsor? The City Council just passed a law, they're going to start selling off parks and things in New York City to corporate interests. Giving them the naming rights, much like Barclays Station instead of Atlantic/ Pacific. Is that where we are as a society, that literally the only people we can turn to are corporations to come in and underwrite things? If that's the case, I can't wait to go skiing in Pepsi, Colorado!
NoLandGrab: Coincidentally, Spurlock's The Greatest Movie Ever Sold will open the Hot Docs festival in Toronto at which Atlantic Yards documentary Battle for Brooklyn will have its world premiere.
Posted by eric at March 29, 2011 11:07 PM