COURTNEY EGAN

courtney@courtneyegan.net

 

Courtney Egan is represented by Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep On Keepin' On

Sunday, April 13, 2008, 7pm
Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center

a program for the
New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival 2008

 

Diverse local (and used-to-be local) artists, activists, youth and other media makers present their response to New Orleans area recovery efforts.

Truth, or This is What you Paid to See
3min
2-cent media collective

Local youth media collective 2-cent has a vision for a new New Orleans and a new kind of young New Orleanian, one who knows their history, knows their Michael Eric Dyson, takes a critical eye to the rebuilding and a more critical eye to the media, and produces their own media response to it all. They know where they’ve been and they certainly know where they want to go. Help them get there - visit the website at http://www.2-cent.com.
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Nueva Orleans
30 min
Sammy Loren

Stuffed into a crammed New Orleans clapboard house is a crew of Central American migrants. Seven days a week, they paint and tile fetid homes drowned by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. What does it mean to be an immigrant in a place scrambling to forge a new identity? What are the consequences when immigrants are unable to secure solid footing within a society's social fabric? Nueva Orleans examines these questions as America's most unique city braces for the future.

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excerpt from Mama Sue’s Garden
10 min
Susan Hamovitch

Sue Boutwell LaGrange sat on the roof of her small house in 'Da Parish' for two nights and three days while the waters of Katrina rose around her. By the time the storm was over, Mama Sue had lost three teeth, four dogs, her job and her husband's business. Hamovitch bears witness to the difficulty of not only re-building a house, but re-making one's life and meditates on her role as filmmaker in a disaster zone.
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New Orleans After
5 min
Ivor Shearer

These five vignettes address the ramifications of hurricane Katrina through video art. Scattered throughout the program, they provide a meditative interval between more traditional media forms.
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Christmas 2007 N. O. aka Can you Feel the Jingle Bells
7 min
HollyHood Khalioskee Labrome

Can You Feel The Jingle Bells is a clear cut explanation of the violence today and the violence that has always been in the City of New Orleans. We are not animals! We run around daily as if we are dogs dodging the dog catchers (cops). Hoping to keep the meals coming on a consistent basis for ALL loved ones. If we (New Orleans) kill, rob, mug or steal it is for fear of becoming like these individuals under the Claiborne bridge. A Hungry Man is a Crazy Man! We're tired of hearing the B.S. about us not wanting to work! Its a Lie! They want to give us the jobs that nobody else wants to work. EQUALITY!!! They are doing the same thing on national television to OBAMA. Its quite obvious that he is the most qualified for the position but you sniff and you snoop hoping to find reasons to give the position to the lesser quaified individual. Hilliary said it with her own two lips, that OBAMA would make a great Vice-President. Generations before have been taught to ignore this type of behavior but not this time around. Are we suppose to ignore them as they ignore our most talented, genius, brilliant, gifted individuals. Its a very bad feeling to be ignored and treated badly, treated different for no reason at all!!! You See It but its not affecting you directly but if we continue to ignore it! What is happening in Iraq, will be not just in New Orleans but America. Who do they call when things are extremely out of control? The Military! As a last resort, not because they can handle it. They are not winning in Iraq! They are fighting individuals in the HOOD (take a closer look). Individuals that created ways to make money after not being treated fairly with employment! Individuals that became fed up after being stopped from doing what is necessary to survive. Survival is absolutely necessary! This film shows you the preproduction before destruction in America (if we continue to ignore)!

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The New Orleans Tea Party
18 min
Marline Otte and Laszlo Fulop

The New Orleans Tea Party documentary sheds light on the challenging reconstruction of post-Katrina New Orleans. The film takes stock of the loss that defines the "storm generation." Interviews with neighborhood, cultural, and civic leaders probe the limitations of a recovery process built entirely upon the shoulders of individuals. The film examines larger themes relevant to American society today: individual versus government civic responsibility, and citizens' vision of, and trust in democratic processes.
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A Jazz Journey
12 min
The Students at the Center

The Students at the Center tell the story of aspiring young jazz musician Stephen Gladney. Stephen reflects on his decision while evacuating during Katrina to take only his saxophone with him. Stephen describes how this decision affected his creative development as a musician.
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Moving On
7.5 min
The Students at the Center

Students at the Center staff member Dominique Townsend tells the story of her decision to return to New Orleans and live with her boyfriend for her senior year of high school. She wanted to return so she could graduate from McMain Secondary School, the school she had attended before Hurricane Katrina, but is it worth the emotional stress of her living situation?