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Synopsis
'Roadsworth: Crossing the Line' details a Montreal stencil artist's clandestine campaign to make his mark on the city streets. As he is prosecuted at home and celebrated abroad, Roadsworth struggles to defend his work, define himself as an artist and address difficult questions about art and freedom of expression. The film is a portrait of an outsider in search of himself, and the city that struggles to embrace him. It offers a glimpse into the rapidly expanding culture of street art, which silently demands that we rethink our public space. This is a film about taking risks, which shows us that sometimes dissent is necessary.
Peter Gibson (a.k.a. Roadsworth) began a series of artistic interventions in the neighbourhoods of Montreal shortly after the events of 9/11. He illuminated the streets by painting owls onto the shadows of lampposts and by adding flames to the crosswalks to make a row of birthday candles.
'Roadsworth: Crossing the Line' is actually the trailer for the film, which is a feature documentary premiering in Canada this fall by Alan Kohl, an innovative filmmaker whose 'From Here to Maternity' became a 2000 Fringe Festival hit. His editing work includes the award-winning feature documentary 'One More River' and 'Crash of the Century', a docu-drama for the Discovery Channel. Alan is also working on two other projects: co-directing 'H2Oil' a challenge to the unregulated development of Alberta's oil sands - and Vanishing Currents, a film chronicling the extraordinary voyage of a theatre troupe embarking on their first European tour.
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User Review
This is a great little
film...
peter gibson is an
inspiration, and i'm glad
that there's people out
there like alan coil that
make media that
matters.