Brian Ashby
2021Scrappers
Ben Kolak, Courtney Prokopas
Set within Chicago’s labyrinth of alleyways, Scrappers is a cinema verite portrait of Otis and Oscar, two scrap metal scavengers searching for a living with brains, brawn and battered pickup trucks. The film shows how globalization, the 2008 financial crisis, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants and widespread scrap metal theft effect these men and their families.
Scrappers
The Quarantine Concerts
Brian Ashby
In the early and uncertain days of the Coronavirus lockdown, Chicago needed a beacon of creative unity. The Quarantine Concerts began streaming on March 20th, enabled by the Experimental Sound Studio and featuring envelope-pushing artists from around the globe.
The Quarantine Concerts
Flight Logs
Brian Ashby
Using reconsidered amateur footage and testimony from Chicago, FLIGHT LOGS unveils fear, profiteering, violence, community, and humanity experienced under racist systems during the "white flight" that shaped American neighborhoods -- from the perspective of families who lived it.
Flight Logs
