A meditation on urban green spaces and the post-industrial cityscape, Up On The Farm explores a one-acre rooftop organic farm in New York City. Connecting the built and natural environments, this video documents an imaginative experiment in green urban redevelopment, and takes a look at an attempt to transform the roof of a century-old former factory into a sustainable, pastoral haven.
Selected sceenings: Experiments in Cinema v7.9, Albuquerque, NM; Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH; Big Muddy Film Festival 34, Carbondale, IN; Green Film Festival, Seoul, Korea; "Scene: Brooklyn" indieScreen, Brooklyn, NY; 15th CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival, National Museum of Cinema, Turin, Italy; Kinookus Film Festival, Dubrovnik, Croatia; Planet in Focus, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Diane Nerwen is a video artist and media arts educator. She has shown her work internationally, including screenings at the Berlin Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Guggenheim Museum, NY, and the Tate Modern, London. Her work has been supported by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and Creative Capital Foundation. She was awarded a DAAD Artist in Residence Fellowship in Berlin in 2001. Her work is distributed by Video Data Bank, Chicago and Vtape, Toronto. Nerwen was born in Montreal and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
