{"id":330,"date":"1999-08-12T12:00:12","date_gmt":"1999-08-12T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.termite.org\/timeline\/?p=330"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T18:13:50","slug":"living-documentary-buffalo-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/living-documentary-buffalo-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVING DOCUMENTARY: BUFFALO, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">From August to December 1999,          Termite TV Collective drove across the United States in a 1964 converted          school bus equipped with cameras, an editing system, and a &#8220;documentary          circus tent.&#8221; The shows we produced &#8212; &#8220;Living Documentaries&#8221;          &#8212; were shot and edited on the road and screened at media art centers          and exhibition venues we visited along the way. We collaborated with local          artists, media makers, residents and fellow travelers, and began recording          <a href=\"http:\/\/termite.org\/LS\/htm\/ls_start.html\">5-minute Life Stories<\/a>. The resulting          Living Documentaries cover a characteristically eclectic mix of themes:          <a href=\"http:\/\/termite.org\/episodes\/season4\/money\/index.html\"><em>Money;<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/termite.org\/episodes\/season4\/ls_sitka\/index.html\"><em>Life          Stories from Sitka, Alaska;<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/termite.org\/episodes\/season4\/violent\/index.html\"><em>Violent;<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/termite.org\/episodes\/season4\/ls_borderlands\/index.html\"><em>Life Stories          from the Borderlands<\/em>;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/termite.org\/episodes\/season4\/rollover\/index.html\"><em>Rollover.<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Now, we still find ourselves          making &#8220;Living Documentaries.&#8221; The term has come to stand for          much more than our roadtrip. Perhaps it is a reflection of our philosophy          that video is an interactive format, that objectivity is a fallacy, that          the observer is always part of the experiment. Or perhaps it is because          we like to see ourselves as nomads with video cameras, even when we just          go to the grocery store. Living Documentary shows currently in production          are Space and Food.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From August to December 1999, Termite TV Collective drove across the United States in a 1964 converted school bus equipped with cameras, an editing system, and a &#8220;documentary circus tent.&#8221; The shows we produced &#8212; &#8220;Living Documentaries&#8221; &#8212; were shot and edited on the road and screened at media art centers and exhibition venues we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-termite-timeline","category-the-living-documentary-termite-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/termite.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}