CUBA
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Habana Vieja 15.7 MB, 7:55 - Havana has a soundtrack all its own. It sounds like music to me.
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Transporte Obrero 18.5 MB, 3:13 - Every vehicle tells a story. Cuba is filled with intertesting vehicles.
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JAPAN
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Tokyo Trains 15.8 MB, 5:50 - Tokyo is a city of incredible action and energy. All of it funnels through the train stations. All day. All night. music by Beaumont Hannant
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Rehearsal Space 10.4 MB, 2:12 - I was walking through the university campus in Kyoto, Japan and I heard a cacophony of sound across the street. I ducked through the bushes and came upon a number of musicians rehearsing in different corners of a vacant lot. I focused on an amplified trio in one corner. While I filmed somebody stacked a bunch of empty boxes in the center and set them on fire. I couldn't have created a better backdrop.
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LAOS
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Sepak Takraw 10.2 MB, 1:03 - This game is very popular in Laos. Like turbo charged hacky sack, It makes volleyball look pretty wuss.
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Rocket Festival - Night Celebration 10.3 MB, 1:32 - The annual Rocket Festival is a twenty four hour event starting in the late afternoon with dancing, drinking and games into the night.
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Rocket Festival - Day Celebration 10.5 MB, 3:06 - The festival continues the next day with th e lighting of the rockets (and joyous mayhem). Some good background can be found here.
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THAILAND
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Wats & Shopping 10.2 MB, 1:02 - I've always considered these movies as sketches of a place or event. This is a more literal approach, so literal that it's narrated.
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MALAYSIA
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Petronas 2 MB, 0:40 - The Petronas Towers is the tallest building in the world but everyone knows they cheated by counting the spires on top. They're a lot better looking than the Sears Tower so I could care less.
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NEW ZEALAND
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Tongariro Crossing 15.1 MB, 2:44 - This is called the most popular day hike in New Zealand. A five hour hike takes you through a volcanic mountain that still gurgles and steams. music by Brian Eno
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FIJI
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Kava Party 10.6 MB, 2:55 - Fiji is famous for the Kava Ceremony, but truth be told, outside of the tourist circle it is much less a ceremony than a reason to hang out and party.
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PERU
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Election Eve 13.7 MB, 4:24 - Regional elections were being held in Peru and during the weekend of the elections the candidates were out campaigning. There was a tremendous amount of energy and enthusiasm at the different rallys that I attended. I was also lucky enough to catch the eventual winner giving us all a wave.
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One Star Hotel 1.8 MB, :40 - The hotels in Peru are rated from one to five stars. It doesn't seem to be obligatory to display the rating on the outside of the hotel, yet this establishment had proudly integrated their lone star into their sign.
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Mancora 13.3 MB, 4:14 - Surfers surfing, crabs crawling, birds picking their feathers. I loved this place, I ended up staying for two extra days. music by Kinobe
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UNITED STATES
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Boys 6.1 MB, 1:52 - I shot this footage in 1984/85 on 16mm while in college. I was pretty young at the time so I shot all the stuff that boys are into. That's what this movie is about. music by Pop Will Eat Itself
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Milwaukee 1984 11.5 MB, 2:28 - Milwaukee can be a gray and dreary place. Once the clouds come in they tend to stay for days and days. Like the film above, all the footage is from my college days. I digitized and re-edited it in Final Cut Pro. music by Philip Glass
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