One Mile
Film (5,280 feet
of 35 mm
film negative and print taped to the mile - long High Line walk way in New York City for 17 hours on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 with 11,500 visitors — the visitors walked, wrote, jogged, signed, drew, touched, danced, parkoured, sanded,
keyed, melted popsicles, spit, scratched, stomped, left shoe prints
of all kinds and put gum on the filmstrip — it was driven on by baby stroller and trash can wheels and was traced by art students — people wrote
messages on the
film and drew animations, etched signs, symbols and words into the
film emulsion lines drawn down much
of the filmstrip by visitors and Jwest with highlighters and markers — the walk way surfaces
of concrete, train track steel, wood, metal gratings and fountain water impressed into the
film;
filmed images shot by Peter West —
filmed Parkour performances by Thomas Dolan and Vertical Jimenez — running on rooftops by Deb Berman and Jwest —
film taped, rolled and explained on the High Line by art students and volunteers) 2012, 58 minutes, 40 seconds 35 mm negative and
film print transferred to high - definition video, no sound Commissioned and produced by Friends
of the High Line and the New York City Department
of Parks and Recreation
On 28 April 2015, KidsMatter delivered a webinar which centred on a series
of recently developed animated
films and supporting resources designed to communicate
key messages about Aboriginal children's social and emotional wellbeing.