Hops is one of the four main ingredients in beer (along with barley, yeast, and water). The Treasure Valley, near Boise, Idaho, is the third largest hops-growing area in the U.S. We visited one hops farm near the small town of Wilder, Idaho, and eventually found someone to give us a tour.

Cast: steev hise

Tags: farming, beer, agriculture, hops, plants and idaho

A brief informational message about BICAS - Bicycle Intercommunity Art & Salvage, in Tucson, AZ.
Find out more about them at bicas.org

Cast: steev hise, rynsa and Mike McKisson

Tags: bikes, bicycles, nonprofit, transit, community and youth

This is a collaging and "folding" of video collage generated at a live performance of the Tucson Bikeastra in December 2010, during the BICAS Art Auction in Tucson. Additional live footage of the performers is also included.

The Bikeastra was Glenn Weyant and Scott Kerr playing musical instruments fashioned from bike parts, with live video accompaniment and additional electronic soundscapes by Steev Hise. For this mashed-up document, realtime manipulated video from the set lasting a total of approximately 40 minutes was edited down, chopped up and superimposed on itself in a 4-way screen split, resulting in an increased density of video information. The sound is collaged from the recorded audio channel coming from Steev's laptop. No recording of the actual performed mix that night exists.

Cast: steev hise and Glenn Weyant

Tags: experimental, live, vj, bikes, transportation, bicycles, art, music and avant garde

This is a section of the rough cut of a film I worked on from 2007 to 2009, called "Death and Taxes: Refusing To Pay For War."

This segment of the film focused on a war tax resister who runs a unique bicycle-powered business that was set up to make it easier for its employees to be war tax resisters.

My original vision for the film was for it to be an entertaining and compelling story that also clearly taught the viewer the basics of war tax resistance. (see this blog entry from an early editing stage in the project: steev.hise.org/content/trying-tell-story-war-tax-resistance ) Budgetary and other problems resulted in me being unable to finish the film, but a new editor, Carlos Steward, stepped in to complete it, though the result was quite different than what I'd planned.

For more information about the finished film, see nwtrcc.org/deathandtaxes.php

Cast: steev hise

This is one section of the rough cut of a film I worked on from 2007 to 2009, called "Death and Taxes: Refusing To Pay For War."

My original vision for the film was for it to be an entertaining and compelling story that also clearly taught the viewer the basics of war tax resistance. (see this blog entry from an early editing stage in the project: steev.hise.org/content/trying-tell-story-war-tax-resistance ) Budgetary and other problems resulted in me being unable to finish the film. This section is about Julia Butterfly Hill, the famous activist who withheld the most war taxes in history. The film was eventually completed by another editor.

For information about the finished film, see nwtrcc.org/deathandtaxes.php

Cast: steev hise

Tags: tax, taxes, war, peace, activism, film, filmmaking, julia butterfly hill, death and money

This is the introductory section of the rough cut of a film I worked on from 2007 to 2009, called "Death and Taxes: Refusing To Pay For War."

My original vision for the film was for it to be an entertaining and compelling story that also clearly taught the viewer the basics of war tax resistance. (see this blog entry from an early editing stage in the project: steev.hise.org/content/trying-tell-story-war-tax-resistance ) Budgetary and other problems resulted in me being unable to finish the film, but a new editor, Carlos Steward, stepped in to complete it, though the result was very different and more basic, formally, than what I'd planned to achieve.

With this intro fragment I hope to convey something of the idea I was originally going for - something grounded in personal narrative that would engage people on a different level than a traditional talking-heads type doc.

For information about the finished film, see nwtrcc.org/deathandtaxes.php

Cast: steev hise

Tags: tax, death, war, military, peace, filmmaking, narrative and story

Background and introductory information on border history, current situation, and civil initiative, for the instruction of new No More Deaths volunteers.

Cast: steev hise

Tags: border, immigration, no more deaths, desert, history and organizing

Created for the Vimeo Weekend Project in which we were to remix a film from the 40s from the Prelinger Archives (archive.org/details/prelinger) called Supervising Women in the Workplace (archive.org/details/Supervis1944).

For this remix I did some simple selecting and colorization of some excerpts and then ran them through some software written in Ruby that uses a library called aviglitch.
more details on aviglitch are here:
ucnv.github.com/aviglitch/

Cast: steev hise

Tags: sexism, feminism, men, women, gender, glitch, remix and appropriation

For this performance the Bike-a-stra was (L to R): Scott Kerr, Glenn Weyant, and Steev Hise.

Cast: steev hise and Glenn Weyant

Tags: bikeastra, bikes, bicycles, music, live, performance and video

Famed reporter Esteban Caliente ruthlessly interrogates videoactivist and filmmaker Steev Hise just after the 2007 G8 protests in Rostock, Germany. A look back at a week of marches and rallies and yelling and chanting, as well as some questioning of progressive activist tactics and strategies as well as Hise's own place in them.

Cast: steev hise