Subdivided is… wow it’s hard to say.. completed. It’s been a very long and difficult process, and I even though this is the beginning of the life of the film in public, I am really done with it, with the whole subject. Well not completely. My interest in communities has moved online and I am in the beginning stages of another project about online communities. We’ll see…

So as I was saying, I’m toast. It’s the longest single creative project I’ve ever been involved with in terms of both time (3.5 years) and scope of content. And I did every single bit myself, save help with second camera on a few occasions. Shooting, editing, writing, photography (except the fantastic aerials by Jim Wark).

Why did I do it all myself? I had spent several years in more of a producing role - thinking up concepts yes, but mostly hands off. This was not my training, coming from a normally solo mode of a fine arts background. I’m a huge proponent of teams and collaboration, but for this I wanted to tweak each edit, sound, and image myself. Luckily, I’m over it now.

In the meantime there is this blog, which starts at the end of the production process, and will chronicle the film as it makes its way out into the world. I’ll also post images and articles written during production, and links to stories about what subjects in the film are up to. Andres Duany, James Kunstler, and Robert Putnam get a lot of ink, and the subject of McMansions has become a major topic of discussion here in Dallas and all over the country.

Communities are fragile things, and places (as opposed to locations) are rare.