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Doin' a Little East Coast Fling

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Trailers | March 31, 2009 | Comments (9)

There are a lot of bad things I have been known to say about my hometown of Philly, not the least of which is that it’s dirty. Philly is a dirty city. Dirty in appearance and dirty in soul. But as I said over at QuizLaw last year:

[O]ne thing I truly love about the place is the Mural Arts Program, which is responsible for thousands of internal and external murals all over the city. It’s really awesome to see well-done public art in some of the ugliest and roughest areas of the city, and it’s one of the few things I believe is really going right for a city that’s been in a lot of trouble socially and financially (not to mention sports-ally)* for some time.

I bring this up because a trailer for In a Dream just showed up online. This little documentary won the “emerging Visions Audience Award” at South By Southwest (dang, should’ve tried to catch it in between the copious amounts of alcohol) and is about Isaih Zagar, one of the local artists responsible for trying to pretty-up the city. Zagar does most of his murals as mosaics and if you’ve ever been anywhere around Soth Street, you’ve seen his shit. It’s cool. Directed by his son, the doc looks like a pretty fascinating look into a unique local artist, and I can’t wait to check it out (it hits NY, Philly, SF and LA in limited release throughout April).

*Of course, things are looking a little up for the city, sports-ally, now that it’s home to the World Fucking Champions, who are on the verge of beginning their quest to repeat. Word.


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Comments

Wow, that looks really interesting.


*By the way, Philly has about as much of a chance to repeat as the Oakland Raiders have of winning the Superbowl.

Posted by: admin at March 31, 2009 9:57 AM

Beautiful. Can't wait to see it.

Posted by: Cindy at March 31, 2009 10:17 AM

*Of course, things are looking a little up for the city, sports-ally, now that it’s home to the World Fucking Champions, who are on the verge of beginning their quest to repeat. Word.
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Bite my ass. -- Pirates fan

And ANOTHER fucking gloating SXSW reference. Can't ... take ... any ... more ...

*snaps, sends MurderPirateShip to lay waste to Philthydelphia ... oh, wait ...*

Posted by: bucdaddy at March 31, 2009 10:29 AM

This looks very intriguing.

Do yourselves a favor. Follow the Vimeo link and watch it in HD on Vimeo's site. That's how you do a video sharing site.

Posted by: branded at March 31, 2009 10:51 AM

I definitely love films about scruffy old guys. Scruffy old artists are even better.

Posted by: frumpiefox at March 31, 2009 11:04 AM

Um, maybe I need to spend more time there to acquire a distaste for it, but I love Philly! My friend and I were there recently, and I just loved that there was so much art everywhere! I also lingered quite a while looking at the murals pictured above on South Street (which, by the way, is in itself worth the trip to Philly...that and the cheesesteaks...mmmmmmmmmm). Of course, I'm from a podunk town in West Virginia (save the jokes, I've heard them all and invented my own) so maybe I'm easily impressed.

Posted by: puregonzo at March 31, 2009 11:26 AM

I love Philly as well, but Seth is right - it's a fucking pit. Except for Fairmont Park.

Posted by: TK at March 31, 2009 2:22 PM

You the guy from Huntington, puregonzo? We're getting a third W.Va. 'Jibite for a month when Seth moves to Vienna in April, FYI.

Posted by: bucdaddy at March 31, 2009 6:27 PM

The only thing that stands out in my mind about Philadelphia is that the streets are all torn up. A chunk of asphalt blew into my right eye when I visited, and it stayed in there all day until my host that night just happened to be a nurse and had some saline solution to get it out.

So, uh. Wear eye protection in Philly.

Posted by: Lucas at April 1, 2009 11:08 AM