Battle for Brooklyn

23 Apr Lessons Learned

Posted at 18:36h in All the Rage, Art, Artists, Battle for Brooklyn, Behind the Scenes, docs, Documentary, Feature Films, Horns and Halos, Music, Music Art, Narrative, News, Photography, Politics, sarno, Screenings, Story of Pain, who took johnny, Working In Protest by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

We've been doing this work for over 25 years and have made all kinds of films from rock and roll narratives to crime films to political and personal documentaries. On the surface, most of the films don't seem connected, but certain themes run through them all, and they build on one another. These can be thought of as themes and...

25 Oct The Truth Lies… in the Middle

Posted at 04:24h in All the Rage, Battle for Brooklyn, docs, Documentary, News, sarno by Michael Galinsky 1 Comment

While we were in the late stages of making "All The Rage," my partner Suki was very focused on the edit, and I began to shoot more on a separate project - work related to protest. The short pieces I was making were part of the process of constructing the film we'd finish next, "Working In Protest". As this film...

07 Jun Consciousness, Framing, and Balance

Posted at 03:43h in All the Rage, Art, Battle for Brooklyn, Horns and Halos, News by Michael Galinsky 1 Comment

In 2004, when we set out to make a film about Dr. Sarno, we couldn’t have envisioned the movie that it has become. Over the last 10 years there has been a dramatic shift in the level of acceptance of the mind body connection in terms of health care. When we started trying to talk about the connection between emotions...

28 May Push Polling

Posted at 02:23h in All the Rage, Battle for Brooklyn by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

This afternoon while working with Suki on the first Act of “All The Rage” the home phone rang and I ran to get it. Our landline (well at least our Ethernet land line) gets almost entirely robo calls but the number was local so I grabbed it. A man launched in to his written spiel. (I’m using quotes...

04 May Changing minds through hearts.

Posted at 19:38h in All the Rage, Artists, Battle for Brooklyn, docs, Documentary, Editorial, Story of Pain by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

When I hit the floor with searing back pain for the second time in my life I was stuck on my office floor for two weeks, unable to even sit up. On the 9th or 10th day of my stuckness I tried to go to the airport to get on a plane with my family. It took every...

09 Mar Publicizing the Privatization

Posted at 20:06h in All the Rage, Art, Battle for Brooklyn, occupy, Photography, Shorts, Story of Pain by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I got an email asking if I would be willing to include a photo from my mall series in a show at a Williamsburg-based gallery. I was given a description which read in part, “The artists included in this exhibition have been chosen for how their work delves the socialization of space—not as something perceived...

09 Dec Die in at Barclays Center #ICANTBREATHE

Posted at 02:43h in Battle for Brooklyn by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

When I lived in New York, I documented a lot of protests. Over the past 15 years I have seen a steady increase in the militarization of the police. The current protests against the grand jury decisions not to prosecute cops for killing unarmed black men are an extension of the anger that was expressed during Occupy. Doubling down...

22 Nov Stossel and Sarno

Posted at 19:38h in All the Rage, Battle for Brooklyn, News by Michael Galinsky 2 Comments

In the 90's, Ebay became the best way to find rare videos, mostly on VHS. In 1999, John Stossel profiled Dr. Sarno and his theories in a piece for the ABC show 20/20. Not long after it aired, that piece traded for hundreds of dollars on the Internet because it was the only media that existed on Dr....

14 Oct Rotten From the Start

Posted at 15:03h in Battle for Brooklyn, News by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

I haven’t written about our film “Battle for Brooklyn” in a while. Other projects have take up my time and attention. However, this weekend it played on Direct TV and we got a slew of messages from people who saw it and were shocked to find that things were not as they had seemed. Also this week it’s been reported...

04 Jun The Orwellian Award

Posted at 15:15h in Battle for Brooklyn, docs, Documentary, News by Michael Galinsky 3 Comments

Next week the Municipal Arts Society is going to give their annual Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis Medal to Bruce Ratner and MaryAnne Gilmartin. This award was created to honor Ms. Onasis' preservation efforts. Giving it to Bruce Ratner makes as little sense as giving President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize. The Historic Districts council feels the same way. “We claim no ownership...

10 Jul Battle update

Posted at 14:05h in Battle for Brooklyn, Documentary, Feature Films, News by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

Battle for Brooklyn airs on TV in Australia next week and should be hitting the US airwaves this fall. It's been over a year since the film was first run on screen and as such it’s a good time to write an update about where things stand with the Atlantic Yards project and the film. After launching it at Hot...

10 May Truth in the Age of Snark.

Posted at 11:20h in Battle for Brooklyn, News by Michael Galinsky 0 Comments

In the age of the internet, to a disturbing degree, snark is much more important than fact. “Reputable” news gathering organizations seem to be devoid of fact checkers and editors are loathe to issue corrections even when the stated facts are clearly wrong. Snark is employed to tell the story the “reporter” sets out to tell, rather than having to...