The Wash (2009)

The Wash is a portrait of the river wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall California where Lee and I used to live We shot the wash on Super8 film and then finished it on video It is a collaboration between us describing the ways the wash is used and the people who use it ourselves included It charts the way this land has changed since they began developing Newhall and the surrounding community of Valencia for housing a development that is expected to bring over 250000 more people into the area by the year 2015