Monday, August 3, 2009

a garden grows in Brooklyn (albeit in a truck)



Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, two brooklyn-based documentary filmmakers, previously raised 10,000 pounds of corn for their 2007 award-winning documentary King Corn.

This time around, frustrated with Brooklyn's lack of farmable land, the two took matters into their own hands and decided to fill their truck-bed with everything from arugula to tomatoes. They filmed the entire experience (including segments filmed via timelapse via solar-powered camera) and the final product should be released sometime this winter.

For now, Ellis and Cheney have a few preview snippets up and running, showing what a few dudes from Red Hook and bunch of smart friends can do with some extra time on their hands.



You can find out more about the project at http://www.wickedelicate.com/.

Or just walk around Red Hook. The truck should be pretty easy to spot.