Behind the Wheel now on Youtube!

Seeing film as art is easy. Remembering that art is about challenging the world can be hard. Putting film art into action? Well, that can be damn near impossible for people... but not the members of the LA Film Co-op. Determined to make their own state of the union address and filled with youthful energy, they bought a bus, fit a modern day editing suite into it and headed out from coast to coast, interviewing notable artists wherever they found them.

Bumping into such luminaries as Dead Prez, director Oliver Stone, guerilla poster artist Robbie Conal, among all those citizens just living day-to-day, the Film Co-op has created a profound record for their time. With a new age of change sweeping into America with 2009, Behind the Wheel is an amazing final summary of the Bush years. It captures with joy and anger the spirit of resistance at a time when the majority of Americans felt disenfranchised from a country and a leader who didn't stand for them.

Enjoy and leave comments. We want to hear from you!

Click here to watch the film in one playlist on youtube. Below are the individual parts. Feel free to share and embed all or individual parts; we want your help promoting the film!

Part 1: Robbie Conal, Francisco Letelier and Oliver Stone. Opening narrated by Olivia Wilde


Part 2: Hualapai Indian Reservation and Santa Fe


Part 3: Santa Fe


Part 4: Oklahoma, Texas, Alexander Cockburn


Part 5: New Orleans


Part 6: New Orleans


Part 7: Atlanta: Home Boys Only, Malachi, Stic.man of Dead Prez


Part 8:Leaving Atlanta, Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade Records, Scott Beibin of the Lost Film Festival


Part 9: New York City/Brooklyn: M1 of Dead Prez

IF YOU ONLY HAVE TIME FOR ONE PART, MAKE IT PART 9!

Behind the Wheel by LAFCO & Tao Ruspoli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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Billy Burke

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New photo gallery: ZINTA

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A little Solea from Vignanello

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Tao Ruspoli Flamenco Guitar--Alegrias Vignanello 2009