Blogosphere Video

I spoke today about the blogosphere, and about media ethics.

The video I showed is also available on my website: http://www.martinlucas.net/M2M.html

The Media Maker I Am

Crew & Actors on Location for "Who Cares?", Malawi, 2010 (cc) m.lucas.

Artist Statement

As an artist and media activist I have used the tools of documentary, installation, and public art to explore social injustice, and the way it is embedded in the cultural and technological systems of communications, economics and war. The most important questions for me revolve around how people struggle to empower and represent themselves. My first efforts as a filmmaker were first defined by a sense of crisis. I remember driving into New York City on the Cross-Bronx Expressway in 1975. A pall of smoke hung over the sky. The carcasses of burning cars littered the roadway, sunk in the bottom of a high brick canyon. I felt as if I had entered hell, a hell whose tragedy went unrepresented in the daily press and the national consciousness. The urgency of a need to speak led me to make a film, Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet, about the struggle against cutbacks in city services, and to a career in documentary film. My work has continued to be concerned with communicating the human cost and political import of social issues. I am currently co-directing "Who Cares?" a feature film about the impact of AIDS on a village in Malawi.