David Sullivan’s Floating, a pre-show artwork, silent, dynamically generated in Flash, is an ominous re-imagining of the infamous flood waters, the “toxic soup” which inundated the city in the aftermath of the levee breaches. www.swampmonster.org

Royce Osborn (director, “All on A Mardi Gras Day”) explores African-Americans’ daily struggle to maintain cultural traditions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in two excerpts from his upcoming documentary Walking to New Orleans. In this first excerpt, Royce has just finished marching with the early morning Skull and Bones gang and catches the Mardi Gras Indians on Fat Tuesday. 2006, 5:30 mins. www.nbpc.tv

Documentarian Blaine Dunlap takes an experimental tour through the remains of the city in Our Bones. 2005, 4:40 mins.

Louisiana Live Oaks by William Guion and George Ingmire, a part of the New Orleans Hope and Heritage series, discusses the place the epic oak holds in the southern psyche.   2006, 2:00 mins. www.nolahopeandheritage.org 

Animator Helen Hill (2004 Media Arts Fellowship recipient) recovered soggy home movies from her flooded house.  These recent 16mm films, underwater for weeks, show haunting decayed imagery of lives so suddenly and drastically displaced by water. Cleveland Street Gap, edited by Courtney Egan, contrasts Helen's neighborhood before and after the flooding.

Madrid St. by Paul Grass documents his brother’s new home, bought in July 2005 in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans, before and after the flood waters rushed in and sat for weeks. 2006, 3:30 min.

Mardi Gras as a Public Healing Ritual for Wounded New Orleans

Performance artist Jose Torres Tama’s essay Mardi Gras as a Public Healing Ritual for Wounded New Orleansaddresses the persistent Why? that New Orleanians attempt to answer daily. 2006, 6:40 mins. www.torrestama.com

4 Katrina Stories from Thousands is a dramatic monologue by high school student Cassandra Bell and her instructor Marta Bivins, a reflection on evacuating to Houston and experiencing for the first time outsider status. 2006, 2:30 min.

The title Octopus Jellies by Thomas Little and Lisa Van Wambeck comes from a mysterious plaque found in storm debris, which inspired a stop motion tale about a breakfast gone awry.   2006, 4:00 min.

9th Ward Marching Band

Ninth Ward Marching Band by Daryn DeLuco (DP “Sexual Dependency”), a work in progress, follows this unconventional group’s conceptual marching band project as they prepare for the 2006 Mardi Gras season.  2006, 5:30 min.

Vodou Priestess Sallie Ann Glassman wants to set the record straight about New Orleans Men. New Orleans Men, written by Glassman and directed/edited by Todd Schmidt, is one short in a series of grassroots, citizen-produced video essays about the city that New Orleans Hope and Heritage produces. 2006, 2:oo mins. www.nolahopeandheritage.org

Walking to New Orleans

Royce Osborn’s second excerpt from Walking to New Orleans takes you into one of the largest second line parades in New Orleans history. Thousands of evacuees returned to the city the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January of 2006, to participate. 2006, 8:30 mins.
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In Brent Joseph’s A Loud Color, community elder Louis Harding returns to gut and rebuild his flooded Marcus Garvey Resource Center. He discusses why he feels re-opening this neighborhood center is more important now than ever. 2006, 6:30 mins.,  www.aloudcolor.com