Artists’ Videos Reappear on Metro buses Covering 4000 screens and 4000 square miles

Freewaves’ program, called Out the Window, is  again displaying artists’ videos on L.A. Metro bus’ Transit TV system hourly with a different video each Monday and Friday in April, May, and June, 2013.  We are creating a communication network among artists, Freewaves and the 1,000,000 daily bus riders in Los Angeles County.  Every Metro bus line carries the program every hour.

Links

Bus riders can text responses to English and Spanish questions posed at the end of each video about the videos.

Web users can comment on the videos

at  www.out-the-window.org/videos or on  http://vimeo.com/outthewindow

Facebook friends of Freewaves receive a video as they appear on the buses.

https://www.facebook.com/lafreewaves

The website also provides instructions for submitting videos for future screenings on the buses.

www.freewavesopencall.org

Subjects and Styles

The selected 26 local and international artists’ videos reflect a range of subjects and styles including performances in urban public spaces, personal takes on the city, animated scenarios, ruminations about life, and investigations of other art forms.  The program tells stories, shares creative impressions and offers critical insights into Los Angeles.

Spring 2013 artists include:

Shireen Alihaji, Peter Bill & Peter Garcia, Ray Bravo, Julian Brummitt, Carolyn Castaño, Heidi Duckler Dance Theater, Rhys Ernst, Mark Escribano, Las Fotas Project, Terrance Grace, Ahmed Gharib, Zig Gron, David Geathers, Jason Jenn & Roland Rodriguez, Annetta Kapon, Nuttaphol Ma, Jaro Minne, Arjuña Neuman, Caress Reeves, Joseph Spaid, Antonio Mendoza for Unite Here Local 11, and Lisa Dianne Wedgeworth.

Trailer

Our trailer provides an overview of the latest videos in the project: 

ARVE Error: id and provider shortcodes attributes are mandatory for old shortcodes. It is recommended to switch to new shortcodes that need only url

 Supporters

Out the Window is supported by grants from the California Endowment, California Community Foundation, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, the Getty Grant Program, and the Pasadena Art Alliance.

• About Us

  For Out the Window, short video portraits of places will be presented in the unusual context of the Los Angeles County Metro bus system, during spring and summer 2011. By sharing perspectives from individual households and neighborhoods to the city and region at large, Out the Window creates a mosaic of the many social, cultural, economic and creative layers of a complex American city.

• Latest Tweets

  • Join us tonight for our first interview with Jordi Phi of @SNATCHPOWER at 8PM (PST)! This will begin our new serie… https://t.co/Nj8C09JFrI232 days ago
  • Join Freewaves! We are looking for a tech-savvy feminist college student who is passionate about intersectional fe… https://t.co/VdedM7nuRF295 days ago

• The O.T.W. Team

  Freewaves | freewaves.org

  Echo Park Film Center | echoparkfilmcenter.org

  Public Matters | publicmattersgroup.com

  UCLA Remap | remap.ucla.edu