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Positive Movements

2019 / 30m & 15m
Episodic short documentary, photo series

Positive Movements is a two-part documentary series following Australian street artist Hego as he returned to the United States in the summer of 2015 to complete two murals begun a year earlier in Strawberry Mansion, Philadelphia, and East Baltimore.

Each mural depicted a local community group offering young people an alternative to violence. In Philadelphia, the Positive Movement marching band and drill team, led by "the President" Tone 'Mr Ynot' Royster and "The First Lady" Anitra Payne. “Pick up a drum, put down a gun.” In Baltimore, Wheelie Wayne, of 12 O'Clock Boyz fame. “Put down a gun. Pick up a bike. Raise it up.”

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