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Buffalo resident Kathy Mecca has been resisting a proposed expansion of the Peace Bridge that threatens to destroy residential homes, architecturally important buildings, and mature trees in a neighborhood that has higher than average rates of asthma.
If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster was produced for the 2008 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Radio Ephemera.
Producer
Fereshteh Toosi is an artist and teacher at Columbia College Chicago.
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Radio Ephemera challenged any/everyone to produce a short audio work inspired by two books from the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, and featuring the voice of a stranger.
If It Hurts, You Breathe Faster
Inspired by: Control of Body and Mind / Trees as Good Citizens / Trailer Ahoy!
Stranger: Kathy Mecca, narrator from Free Air Prelinger Archive and Dialogue with Life (Prelinger Archive)
(sounds from freesound.org)
Read about and listen to all 72 Radio Ephemera submissions.
Learn more about Fereshteh Toosi.