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	<title>todd chandler ::: portfolio</title>
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	<description>filmmaker &#124; artist &#124; educator</description>
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		<title>STORIES FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[STORIES FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI
Online Story Archive (beta version)

During the summers of 2006 and 2007 I collaborated with artist A&#8217;yen Tran collecting audio stories as we traveled on the Miss Rockaway Armada down the Mississippi River. While docked in small towns, local residents would visit the Miss Rockaway, offering us produce from their gardens, wisdom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/stories-from-the-upper-mississippi/</link>
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		<title>PROJECT SITES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PROJECT WEBSITES
I have designed and maintained websites for the Miss Rockaway Armada and the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea. These two floating projects are a far cry from anything digital. Yet, their websites have been a way for us to communicate broadly, publicly and collectively.
In the case of the Switchback Sea, I created a simple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/project-sites/</link>
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		<title>EL PUENTE INTEGRATED ARTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EL PUENTE INTEGRATED ARTS PROJECT GUIDE

While working as an educator at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice high school and community based organization I designed and built a cd-rom/website to accompany a handbook we published on how to create an integrated arts project. Each year at El Puente students, faculty and community members choose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/el-puente-integrated-arts/</link>
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		<title>GOOD KID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GOOD KID
16mm
Independent Short Film (10:10)
[See post to watch Flash video]
director: Tim Sutton
cinematographer: Sam Levy
Good Kid blends fictional narrative and documentary as it follows Franklin Reyes throughout the course of one day in his life as a teenager and young father in New York City.


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		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/good-kid/</link>
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		<title>MARKETBOUND</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MARKETBOUND trailer
DV
Independent Documentary Feature
(trailer 2:33)
[See post to watch Flash video]
director: Jeremiah Crowell 
Marketbound is a feature-length documentary that explores how a generation of Cambodian women&#8217;s lives is being upended amid the push for the country to move towards economic and social &#8220;development.&#8221; The film ties together issues of development, globalization, the sex and garment industries  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/marketbound/</link>
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		<title>SAM PREKOP: SOMETHING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SAM PREKOP: SOMETHING
16mm
Music Video (3:49)
[See post to watch Flash video]
Music video for Thrill Jockey recording artists Sam Prekop
director: Tim Sutton
cinematographer: Jeremiah Crowell


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		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/sam-prekop-something/</link>
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		<title>BRENDAN BENSON: SPIT IT OUT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BRENDAN BENSON: SPIT IT OUT
35mm
Music Video (3:24)
[See post to watch Flash video]
director: Tim Sutton
cinematographer: Sam Levy
Music video for Virgin Records recording artist Brendan Benson.


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		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/spit-it-out/</link>
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		<title>THE MISS ROCKAWAY ARMADA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE MISS ROCKAWAY ARMADA

 

The Miss Rockaway Armada is a loose collection of artists, musicians, builders, travelers, organizers and dreamers. It includes members of Toyshop Collective, Visual Resistance, The Amateurs, The Floating Neutrinos, The Infernal Noise Brigade, The Madagascar Institute and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra.
We began working together in the cold winter of 2005 huddling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/the-miss-rockaway-armada/</link>
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		<title>BEING HERE IS BETTER THAN WISHING WE&#8217;D STAYED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BEING HERE IS BETTER THAN WISHING WE&#8217;D STAYED
In spring of 2008 the Miss Rockaway Armada was invited to create an installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. In the spirit of our work building rafts, we used all locally scrapped and salvaged materials to transform the Hunter Mezzanine into a magical gathering place and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/being-here-is-better-than-wishing-wed-stayed/</link>
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		<title>SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA
In the summer of 2008 a group of artists, builders, performers and musicians collaborated with the artist Swoon (a founding member of the Miss Rockaway Armada) to create the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea. Swoon designed seven boats which were built from salvaged materials and launched from Troy, New York. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackbirdmedia.net/portfolio/swimming-cities-of-switchback-sea/</link>
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