The Silver Spring Penguin

Photo: From "Bronx Princess" (2008). Courtesy of SilverDocs.

The United States is populated with hyphenated people — Asian-American, African-American, Muslim-American, blah blah blah. The suffix identifies what we are: citizens (or at least residents) of this country. The prefix identifies who we are, the culture with which we most closely relate. (more…)

Photo: Plane spotters in "Plane Days" (2008). Courtesy of SilverDocs.

For better or worse, humans are big on manipulating the environment. We construct buildings and plant lawns where none existed before. Flipping the script, these constructed environments manipulate humans to either conform or rebel. The SilverDocs shorties program “City[e]scapes” tries to capture that conflict, with varying degrees of success. (more…)