good job angeline!

That's wonderful! I did the same thing on October 8 down at City Hall. Our films are totally different of course. Very interesting. I like what you do with your colors and the rhythm of the film. It's excellent. Best to you.

Awesome! I Love it!! :)

Nice Job Angeline!

Awesome. Really, really lovely edit :)

I was terribly disappointed to see a picture of President Obama with a “Hitler Moustache” again. I was hoping that the Occupy Movement was beyond “Tea Party” vitriol. Right-Wing Media is already trying to paint the “OWS” as being Anti-Semitic Anti-Zionist racist; well is the Occupy Movement a racist movement? Is this the image that you really want to send out to the world? That the Occupy Movement is just as racist as the Tea Party? A picture of Obama with a “Hitler Moustache” is offensive to both the Jewish Community and the Black Community is this the message that Occupy wants to send out to the world? Hey, “we are all one” except Jews and Blacks aren’t really welcome? If you consider Health Care Reform such a “fascist” threat to the American way of life then promote the “public option” or “Single-Payer”, not HATE!

Pat, while I certainly do feel the same way inasmuch as I find that image offensive--and, perhaps more relevantly, absolutely not politically useful for the Occupy movement but in fact harmful-- I stand with Angeline on the nature of a documentarian's work. Her goal here is, I believe, to capture an environment that contains a population with a diverse set of opinions, ideologies, and political goals. In my experience, Occupy includes moderates, liberals, communists, anarchists, Christians, Orthodox Jews, immigrants,... you see my point. There are many conflicting viewpoints represented at Occupy, and thus the same is true of Angeline's video. If there had been counter-protesters, I imagine Angeline would have documented their signs as well. This is not intended as an encapsulation of Angeline's (or any one individual's) personal politics. That sign sure does suck, though.

Great work as always, Angie! This reminds me, I need to upload my OWS photos...

Look, believe you me, I am all about the whole "Freedom of Speech" thing, I am not interested in squelching anyone's voice, and I have been following / supporting this Global Movement since Tunisia. However, images do matter, this very image is still being used by Left-Wing propagandist to paint the Tea Party as being racist and it worked, changing public opinion negatively against the Tea Party. So don't be surprised if Right-Wing Media starts using your video as propaganda against the Occupy movement. So whose side are you on?

Believe you me, if this was The KKK or the Westboro Baptist Church aligning themselves with the Occupy Wall Street Protester ranks, you would be singing a completely different tune right now. Regarding “Speculations”: One thing more that you should consider is that if one of the people in this video gets busted by the police for protesting, the prosecutor will be freezing on that image in your video to sway the jury against them. I have been voting non-partisan for a long time now and I do agree that there are “lunatic fringes” in most populist movements. And I’m not trying to CENSOR anyone or anything. With my comments I have just been stating my negative reaction to your film that is all, nothing more nothing less. All I can remember or took away from your film is that one image. Message received!

BTW – if you truly are in earnest about being a documentarian, then you would have interviewed the “Obama with a Hitler Moustache” sign people to see if they are in fact racists or if they feel that that image is a racist image.

Great work Angeline - it sheds a new light onto a movement that is being portrayed in a very different way by especially the American corporate media. I feel it's a little more differentiated in Europe, but nevertheless they are less sympathetic and rarely manage to convey such an image of diversity.

I was also shocked to see that there are idiots in every crowd. Displaying a sign with Barack Obama wearing a Hitler moustache downplays all of the Nazi's atrocities while showing a massive lack of historical knowledge at the same time. And above all that, it is of course simply a very twisted pun at Obama by a right-wing group that will use absolutely every dirty trick at their disposal to demonize their counterparts.

I feel Angeline was right to include this as it can be seen as a little counterbalance to an otherwise mainly 'happy' film that is arguably very sympathetic to the Occupy movement.

Calling such a film a documentary means that it should hold up for an analysis of the balance of its content, but that's hard to judge not having been there. As a documentary filmmaker I know for myself that staying true to a story is a daunting task, because with every shot, every angle, every cut and especially everything you decide not to show, you are influencing the story - no matter if you intend to or not. There is no such thing as a balanced documentary, it can only be tried to show all aspects on a story. And I hope that's what Angeline tried to do.

Way fresher and broader than what happened here in Barcelona in June.

Keep it on!

so funky. very enjoyable. immense talent on display as always.

I think you did a great job Angeline. I was briefly at Occupy DC whilst passing through DC. I think it is a smaller protest than the one you were at in LA. I can attest that your film reflects very well the atmosphere and diversity of the protestors.

nice work,no beautiful work,go for it,goed gedaan geweldig.

Great colors, like the video. I will get off my ass and post some of mind. Peace

did you (or others) talk to the guy carrying that obama-pic?

I love the overall mood of your video. Thanks for documenting the events that unfolded. I like the fact that you recoded the things that captured your eye controversial or not. keep up the great work we are the news reporters of our generation.

Good stuff I loved this!

I love this video! I added it to one of my fb pages:

Nice colors... good that you slowed down at the end a bit.