Trading Dirt
Producer
- Rosie Lee Hooks & Paul Sabu Rogers
Director Of Photography
- Peter Bonilla
Editor
- Paul Sabu Rogers
Synopsis
In Trading Dirt, with Simon Rodia and Allan Kaprow, Host Rosie Lee Hooks, takes us on a Happening with Artist-Storytellers Rogelio Acevedo, Augustine Aquirre, Domonique Moody, John Otterbridge, Margarita and Saul Pichardo, Kenzi Shiokava Jacqueline and Roderick Sykes. Together they share spontaneous conversations, storytelling, socialization and unrehearsed interactions while exchanging buckets of dirt.
The production documents, in a tangible form, the idea of circulating and giving back to the community and receiving and passing on ideas. The artist-storytellers are each directly involved in educating and providing leadership in arts education, on a continuous basis, at the Watts Towers Arts Center.
As Kaprow said, “The line between art and life should be kept as fluid and perhaps indistinct as possible.” The idea of having some of the mentor’s dirt and culture mix directly with each other and Simon Rodia, is a moment in time.