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Giants Among Us

Sunday, January 31, 2010

New York City is the capital of the advertising business in North America so it is to be expected that commercial imagery is plastered everywhere you look.  The whole city has attention deficit disorder and all kinds of bids for attention have to be extravagant to be noticed at all.  Some of the faces and [...]

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Snow in the City

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Last weekend the Eastern U.S. had its first major snowfall of the season, immediately preceding the Winter Solstice.  Around this time of year our culture ritually celebrates the White Christmas and the Winter Wonderland, Jack Frost and Frosty the Snowman, calling up nostalgic images of horse-drawn sleigh rides and cozy houses among rolling hills of [...]

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To Dance a Landscape

Monday, November 23, 2009

November from Fred Hatt on Vimeo.
November is a film I made in collaboration with dancer Jung Woong Kim of U-Turn Dance Company.  This is about as spontaneous as filmmaking can get.  Jung Woong and I just met one day at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, walked around looking for suitable settings, and then filmed Jung Woong’s improvisations [...]

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The Spirit of Weeds

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Weeds are feral plants, the bane of gardeners and pavers.  They thrive in the most inhospitable settings, taking root in the sooty dust that collects in cracks, taking over abandoned urban spaces with remarkable speed, breaking concrete and reclaiming mankind’s barrens for the kingdom of plants.
Weeds may be glorious wildflowers or medicinal herbs, thistles, grasses [...]

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Subway Sax

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Subway Sax from Fred Hatt on Vimeo.
In honor of my brother, Frank, and in celebration of his moving back to the Northeast after a sojourn in Oklahoma, I’m posting a video we made eighteen years ago. This is Frank improvising on his alto saxophone in the West 4th Street Subway Station in Manhattan on [...]

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