I know this isn’t a documentary I’m posting; it’s a piece of political media, but I think it is really important so I’m posting it here. If you watched I.O.U.S.A. or An Inconvenient Truth or any other myriad of works created in the past few years, you know we are in deep shit. We came together to elect Obama because we believed that he would assemble the right people and get us on a course to changing our tides. He’s trying but I have to admit to having dropped the ball. The election and inauguration were such high moments, it was a long pendulum swing back into “real” life. That’s the thing though, our “real” lives are in jeopardy.

Ray Pride had a video project at Sundance were  he was asking people to share a hopeful, truthful moment with him/everyone. My outlook is bleak so I told him I wasn’t sure if I could come up with anything to share for the project. I did come up with something but he never asked me again to do it, so hey, blog fodder, right? Well, you’ll notice that I even forgot to make my post about it post-Sundance.(Ray, help me out with a link if you read this – I can’t find it.)

If you had a chance to read my recent contribution to Documentary magazine about Jeffrey Tuchman’s The Man From Hope, you might have gleaned that it can sometimes be difficult to discern political media from documentary. Obama, taking a page from Clinton working with Tuchman, hired Al Gore biographer Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Deadwood) to make his recent half-hour ad. I really take issue with the New York Time political blogger Jim Rutenberg’s snide comments, like “unavoidable” and “heavy-handed style of filmmaking.” But, I think we are down to the time when people who are undecided need to figure it out for themselves rather than listening to pundits. So, in case you didn’t catch it, watch for yourself.

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