"Thirty-Two Short Films About Walking in Sudbury"

I used to take a GoPro camera with me just about everywhere I'd go in Sudbury. I'd record some beautiful things like skating on Ramsay Lake, or walking along the boardwalk of Ramsay Lake, but mostly I'd record video of people's lives being endangered by the careless actions of Sudbury drivers (usually my life). I began to make short videos illustrating some of the challenges and hazards of walking in Sudbury, and the absurd positions the City's infrastructure would sometimes put people in. Eventually, I realized that my story is not unique, or terribly compelling, so I asked people if they would be interested in going for a walk and answering three simple questions: Where do you walk? Why do you walk here? and what would make walking here better? "32 Short Films About Walking In Sudbury" combines my earlier videos with these short interview videos into a single 20-minute long documentary about being a pedestrian in Sudbury, Ontario. The title is a reference to the film “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould”, directed by François Girard and co-written by Girard and Don McKellar, which uses the format of vignettes to provide an impressionistic biography of Glenn Gould, rather than attempting a straight-ahead narrative biopic. Go to SudburyMoves.ca, or like Sudbury Moves on facebook to see how I've documented motor vehicle collisions involving pedestrians and various news stories and initiatives related to transportation in the City of Greater Sudbury.