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WEST OAKLAND MATTERS VIDEOS ONLINE
CARON CREIGHTON
The in-progress feature documentary, WOOD STREET, follows members of Oakland's largest homeless encampment as they fight the city and state against eviction from their long term community.
ELLIAS FULLMORE
premieres the Tapestry Collection, Saint Maurice; West Oakland Matters 2024, at 7th West.
JAMES BELL
talks about feeding the soul and giving the culture of community a musical voice in West Oakland's Lower Bottoms, with Sramani Institute's KAKOLI MITRA.
MARIO HERNANDEZ tracks urban transformations, Oakland, and the influence of artists, in a wide ranging interview, Capital & Culture, with writer CONSTANCE HALE.
KEN LIGHT, renown social documentary photographer, recalls West Oakland in the 1970s and the dynamics of authenticity in recording history.
Interviewer: MALCOLM RYDER; Filmed by CARON CREIGHTON.
TRACI BARTLOW, filmmaker, photographer and dancer, encapsulates 50 years of hip hop and creativity as personal agency in an anniversary video.
[Self portrait: Bartlow]
SIMONE NIA RAE, painter and media artist, features Oakland murals done by local artists during the time of Covid, and candid testimonies and interviews about racism and violence against Black people.
THE WOOD STREET HOMELESS COMMUNITY documents their fight for rights to their encampment on the edge of society.
Video (c) Wood Street community. Photo (c) Beth LaBerge/KQED.
