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Forest Grove was inspired by a trip to Texas. During the initial
approach into the San Antonio airport, the view from the sky
was of hundreds of new homes winding their way around cul de
sacs. In some areas the homes were not even finished and the
cul de sac sat empty, surrounded by dirt. In other areas each
new home was dotted with its own glistening blue swimming pool,
like markers on a map. The image brought to mind John Cheever’s
short story The Swimmer. But it wasn’t until Maya visited
an exclusive, high security, gated community that same weekend
that the story came together.
To emphasize the spatial experience of living in a gated community
the set for the story is an architect's model of Forest Grove.
The model is approximately 8ft. x 12ft. and includes 36 houses,
12 swimming pools, a community center, and a guards station,
as well as the single road that leads out of the community and
straight to the shopping mall. Still photographs were taken
of miniature styrene plastic people enacting the scenes and
then edited/animated (with the use of Flash) to create a complete
story which is accessible online.
Written, Directed and Produced by
Maya Churi
Photographs by
Jim Denault
Design by
Michelle Perreault
http://www.perreaultdesign.com
Music and Animation by
Jason Snell
http://d13.lowres.com/media
Architecture by
Riley Triggs
Information Architecture by
Fiona Brandon
Laughing
Eren Gibson
Editing Consultant
Josh Cramer
Model Makers
Maya Churi
Riley Triggs
Mikolaj Szoska
David Kilpatrick
Ariel Churi
Ivan Talijancic
Additional artwork by
Mikolaj Szoska
Forest Grove was created with the generous support of
The Jerome Foundation
New York State Council on the Arts
Special thanks to:
Timothy Anderson
Mark Ashkinos at Scream DVD
Rene Bastian
Ashley Berns
Carl Brown at Corduroy Media
Robert Byrd
Ariel Churi
Kate Clark
Kevin Clark
Anna Collette
Dion Doulis
Sean Elwood
Katharine Garrison
Matthew Geller
Seth Giammanco
Eren Gibson
Amy Goodman
Chris Gorman
Phil Harder
Eugene Hernandez
Eric Hirsch
Andrew Houriet at August Development
Ward Hunt
Bill Iseminger
Oliver Jolliffe
Michael Jones
Alicia Kaiser
Laura Kern
Eva Kolodner
David Kopple
Krzysztof Kosmiski
Ruby Lerner
Mike Lahaie
Tim Latorre
Erika Latta
Jessica Levin
Robert Levy
Scott Macauley
Brad MacCallum at Conjunction Arts
Marci MacGuffie
Randy Makiej
Jawad Metni
Zach Mortenson
Beverly Moseley
Elizabeth Munger
Katie Munger
Mark Munger
Mary Munger
Stan Munger
Alex Nowacki
Amy Parness
Leonard Peterson
Tommy Pollatta
Linne Radmin
Carrie Rathmann
George Ratliff
Annabel Rivera
Esther Robinson
Rudy at King's Hobby
Randy Ryan
Dan Sacher
Katie Salen
Michelle Satter
Emily Schweitz
Alissa Shipp
Julie Simonite
Peter Simonite
Tim Smith
Jennifer Snell
Joel Snell
Nate Snell
Britt Stadig
Doug Stone
Ken Tabachinick
Herb Tam
Cate Wilson
Jason Wishnow
Karolina Wydra
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