Materialist Forms

06/08/2012

We had a really amazing set of interviews earlier this week. All I can say is that I'm truly grateful for the generosity of those who have given of their time (and stories) for this documentary project. The Hoedads are a welcoming and fascinating bunch, for sure.

Spending the next several weeks working on other people's projects: Mr. Bill Scheuner (our sound recordist for many of the Hoedads shoots) is working on his final project through the Northwest Film Center's School of Film. Plus, I'll also be putting on my DP cap for a music video shoot with Jarratt Taylor (a recent NWFC graduate) later this month. Productive times!

06/02/2012

More interviews down in Eugene beginning this coming Monday a.m.! Looking forward to documenting more stories from former Hoedads .

04/29/2012

Materialist Forms just returned from a Friday/Saturday in Eugene. We spent several hours a piece at three different locations interviewing Hoedads. Great times, wonderful stories!

04/08/2012

Materialist Forms spent a few hours in Wilsonville on Friday for an on camera conversation with a former Hoedads co-op member. Working on setting up more interviews down in and around Eugene for the last weekend in April, too!

03/06/2012

After a month-long hiatus for PIFF, we're starting to coordinate things for mid-to-late March production dates. More info on the horizon!
Also looking to start a blog, wordpress, or webpage before long with more info on the project, including production stills, regular updates, subject and production team biographies, etc. Hoping for it to be a hub where those interested in the Hoedads project can drop in anytime and catch up with where we're at with it.

01/19/2012

We're heading down to Eugene early next week for three days of work on the doc project. Got some pretty nice interviews lined up to boot!

01/04/2012

Got the Hoedads documentary project on the brain (nothing new about that, really).
Busy lining up interviews for a mid-January trek down to Eugene. Extremely exciting, as it promises to be our most productive production jaunt to date!

12/16/2011

Up early prepping gear for this afternoon's interview!

09/16/2011

Our second round of interviews happen today. We'll be sitting down with two members of the Hoedads co-op for on-camera conversations. The pleasure is all ours.

09/08/2011

The Hoedads Reforestation Cooperative was a worker-owned treeplanting and forestry labor cooperative based in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was active throughout the American West from 1971 to 1994. For several years they were country's largest worker-owned cooperative.[citation needed] They wer...

09/04/2011

Take a gander at the lead story of this most recent edition of the Oregon Quarterly. Written by Robert Leo Heilman, who we spent some time with during our first weekend of production, it shares the same subject as our documentary project.

Oregon Quarterly is the magazine of the University of Oregon. Four times a year, we present the diversity of ideas and peoples associated with the University