We are delighted to bring you BHffilms’ latest production, filmed on October 15, the day that Occupy Seattle set up Tent Central in Westlake Park, despite warnings from the Parks Department that that would be rude and inconvenient. In the end, some 150 tents went up over the weekend, then came down on Monday, with police making eight arrests.
Tweeted Mayor McGinn: “Dear #Occupyseattle – You had an amazing weekend. The offer at City Hall still stands.”
Media coverage reveals our obsession with conflict, but MJ Sieber’s videos offer a corrective viewpoint (I called his earlier effort a “protest music video“). Somehow he’s tapped into a long-distance perspective with his closeups of people putting in the long hours of protest, capturing the truly political act, one that has little to do with parties, but with being people who are always negotiating living in community.
