Katrina Campus Media Project, Buffalo, NY
Aug. 21, 2007
Contact: Dan Conover at press@guerrillamuse.com or (843) 469-9938.
For immediate release:
Post-Katrina New Orleans grass-roots documentary and art event coming to Buffalo’s The Church
What: The Hurricane Katrina Campus Media Project, a touring multimedia art installation that includes a screening of the documentary film Falling Together in New Orleans. When: Tuesday, Sept. 4; Where: The Church, 341 Delaware Ave.; Schedule: Art exhibit, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., (free) at The Church; documentary film screening and discussion, 7 p.m. ($7) at Hallwalls.
Two years after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans’ levees, the tragedy on the Gulf Coast continues with only sporadic attention from the national media. On Sept. 4 Organic Process Productions is bringing the human side of the story to Buffalo via The Hurricane Katrina Campus Media Project, a traveling multimedia event produced by artist/filmmaker Farrah Hoffmire and her husband, tech entrepreneur Mitchell Davis, co-founder of BookSurge.com.
The touring event is comprised of:
The Post-Katrina Portrait Project: More than 400 selected portraits of survivors and volunteers drawn by “embedded artist” Francisco Di Santis in the aftermath of the storm. The subjects’ stories, written in the margins of the drawings, provide poignant commentary on life after the storm.
Katrina Ballads video: A world-premiere video-art installation that blends news footage with performance video of composer Ted Hearne’s groundbreaking Katrina Ballads, a musical piece that premiered at the 2007 Spoleto Festival USA.The couple will be touring with the event in the United States and Europe over the next 18 months. Hoffmire and Davis are the founders of Organic Process Productions (OPP), an independent production company that focuses on socially relevant projects and experimental approaches to art, journalism and media. OPP is based in Charleston, SC.
Falling Together in New Orleans: Hoffmire’s documentary film relates the stories of grass-roots volunteers and survivors who didn’t wait for official sanction to begin helping, organizing and rebuilding. The showing will be followed by Davis’ presentation on “Media Freedom and the Solo Journalist in the 21st Century.” Falling Together features music from Buffalo’s Ani Difranco.
ON THE WEB: www.organicprocess.com