The Moving Picture Boys is the production company of filmmakers Jace Freeman and Sean Clark. They have created a series of short nonfiction videos that combine narrative storytelling techniques with innovative news reporting to connect the diverse communities of Nashville.  Some of these videos focus on Abby the Spoon Lady, and the Nashville street performing community.


In a year of documenting Nashville's communities -- spanning from underground wrestlers and street musicians to environmental activists and empowered immigrants -- this accumulation of gritty narratives combine for a beautifully intimate portrait of a city.

Nashville 2012 is a feature length documentary about the city in cooperation with the online web series, Nashville Docujournal.

Nashville Docujournal

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A series of short nonfiction videos that combine narrative storytelling techniques with innovative news reporting to connect the diverse communities of Nashville.

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Mosque Grand Opening Mosque Grand Opening - November 18, 2012. Assistant ...	January 2012 EDITOR'S PICK Julius Caesar - January 29, 2012. Maya ...
Murfreesboro Mosque Hundreds of people from around the state convene in ...	Spoons The traveling street band Free Dirt plays to an audience on the ...
USA vs Cuba - Nashville ... The U-23 United States men's soccer team defeats Cuba 6-0 ...	Kurdish Protest - Nashville ... Nashville's Kurdish community gathers at Legislative Plaza to ...

Docujournals | Nashville City Paper

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Nashville City Paper Nashville's Online Source for Daily News. Online Classifieds ...Two filmmakers turn their cameras on the real Music City in 'Nashville 2012' ...

Nashville 2012 Trailer From Docujournal Project ... - Nashville Scene

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by Steve Haruch - in 88 Google+ circles - More by Steve Haruch Feb 15, 2013 – Last year, The Moving Picture Boys' project Nashville Docujournal caught our attention with its artfully rendered videos capturing little-known ...

Abby the Spoon Lady and Ben Shirley - Turned Earth - have just recorded a new album!  

Thanks to Sullivan's Pond Farm for letting us record our album at your place!

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Find the new album here:

http://turnedearth.bandcamp.com/

JUG FACE

the movie

Free Dirt had the honor of joining the team for the movie JUG FACE, which tells the story of a teen, pregnant with her brother’s child, who tries to escape from a backwoods community when she discovers she must sacrifice herself to a creature in a pit. The cast includes Larry Fessenden (I Sell the Dead) and Sean Young (Bladerunner).  Free Dirt had the honor of playing the backwoods band in the movie.  

The film is set to premier at the Slamdance Film Festival  Jan. 20-26 in Park City, Utah, at the Treasure Mountain Inn.  "Jug Face" was the grand prize winner of the 2011 Slamdance screenwriting competition.

Slamdance Film Festival

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One of this year's Special Screening selections, Jug Face, was the Grand Prize Winner of ...The Slam Collective will World Premiere at Slamdance Film Festival, ...

Slamdance prize to 'Jug Face' - Entertainment News, Film ... - Variety

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Oct 6, 2011 – Chad Kinkle's "Jug Face" has won the Slamdance Writing Competition Grand Prize.. Film News from the entertainment source: Variety.

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Slamdance mentions Jug Face in their Summer of Slamdance post ... Kinkle's southern Gothic script won best screenplay at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2011 ...

'Jug Face' wins Slamdance writing prize | Flick ... - Daily Movie News

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Oct 6, 2011 – Film News: WGA West announces scribe competition kudos -- Chad Kinkle's ''Jug Face'' has won the Slamdance Writing Competition Grand ...

Slamdance 2013: Jug Face and Billy Chen Presents ... - Dread Central

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1 day ago – ... at this year's Slamdance 2013 Film Festival (January 18th to the 24th). ...First up is Chad Crawford Kinkle's Jug Face starring Lauren Ashley ...

Jug Face the Movie Official Site 2012

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SPOONOLOGY - A HISTORY OF SPOON PLAYING

In America people usually associate the playing of spoons with the image of an old man on his front porch slapping a pair of spoons between his knee and his hand.  Although this mental image is not completely inaccurate, there is much more to spoon playing than that.  Another image that folks seem to attribute to spoon players is that of the guy or gal picking up a pair of spoons from behind the bar or from the kitchen cabinet to play along with the band playing at a venue or a house show, and butchering the timing and rhythm.  That being said, please note that when given the right amount of respect and practice, spoons can actually become a complex rhythm instrument that compliments the music.  Practice makes perfect. 

There have been spoon players since before written history.  Prehistoric rock drawings and pottery as early as the 4th millennium depict dancing figures with curved blades in their hands.  Spoons belong to a class of instrument called concussion idiophone.  This general class of instruments includes the oldest instruments known to man.  Spoons themselves are prehistoric, and you can say that there have been spoon players since around the invention of the spoon.

Many ancient cultures played spoons.  Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all played spoons and a variation of the spoons called the rattle bones or the rhythm bones.  Rhythm bones are essentially a pair or set of three bones, usually sheep and cattle bones, placed in the hand parallel to the palm with the convex sides facing each other.  The bones are placed between each finger, with one finger being used like a hinge, and the moving one's wrist so that in such a way that the bones hit each other.  Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all played spoons and bones in their battle marches and some even speculate that human bones were used.  During the crusades, when these armies were marching the clicking or the bones and spoons meant to their enemy that "the pagans were coming" and it was time to prepare for battle, or to even run and hide.

Spoons play a part in many different cultures.  The Irish, French-Canadian, Turkish, Russian and Vietnamese all played spoons as a part of their traditional music heritage.  In America spoons are associated with minstrels, jug bands, and folk music.

Notable spoon players are Artis the Spoonman, Sam Spoons, Deb "Spoons" Perry, David Holt, and Tran Quang Hai.  Keeping these ancient art forms is important to not only our own culture, but to the world.  The playing of spoons is keeping these ancient traditions alive, and forming new ones.  

Happy clicking.