Artifact Pictures will have two films which will be shown together as part of the Philadelphia Stories series on MiND TV – formerly WYBE-TV35. The broadcast dates are as follows : Thursday, Jan 22, 10PM Saturday, Jan 24, 9PM Sunday, Jan 25, 1PM

The View from Amber Street

The continuation of our documentary from 2006 on the life and times of a pair of industrial buildings in Philadelphia – their history, the neighborhood they inhabit, and the unique balance of manufacturers and artists who are its tenants, past and present. During the course of making the first film, the buildings were sold, raising questions about the building’s future as an integrated center for art and industry. Now two years after the transfer of ownership, some of the oldest manufacturing tenants have closed, but new tenants have arrived, primarily belonging to the ‘creative economy’. At the crossroads of both gentrification and globalization, the Amber Street buildings are representative of a neighborhood, a city, and a national economy in transition

Virtual Memory

As we approach the end of analog television in 2009, and enter a new era in the evolution of digital media, our experience of images and information becomes increasingly intangible. One part history and one part poetry, Virtual Memory is a meditation on the essence of mechanical image-making and its impact on human consciousness, from the physical process of photography and film, to the alternate universe created by computers and virtual reality. Using a compilation of found material, the film bids a kind of fond farewell to the 20th century.