HOME
VIDEO/DVD
PHOTOGRAPHS
SERVICES
ORDERS
ABOUT US
LINKS
CONTACT
In 1984, Media Generation started in Massachussetts as a film production company providing freelance camera and editing services in both 16mm film and video.
We are currently headquartered in Los Angeles and work primarily in video. Many of our productions are being released on DVD through this site,
and we do DV editing, DVD authoring, and archive management.

In-Production

Oss Tales-- Mayday in Berkely, California and Padstow, Cornwall.
What Anthropology Isn't Visual? Conversations with ethnographic filmmakers
Melemchi- An Ever-Changing Place The on-going story of Himalayan Herders.
Little Known Sports From the poetry of Vern Rutsala


Media-Generation Films
Big Ones
Oh, What A Blow That Phantom Gave Me! Edmund Carpenter (2002) ethnographic film, visual anthropology and Papua New Guinea.
Cambodian Court Dance: The Next Generation (2001) Eleven dances shot with multiple film cameras in Cambodia and the United States
Hosay Trinidad (1998) Islamic religious practices in Trinidad.
Himalayan Herders (1997) Life in a Himalayan village.
Khmer Court Dance (1992) Cambodian classical dance.
A Place For Jazz (1992) Boston's legendary 1369 Jazz Club.
The Last Window (1989) Charles J. Connick Associates stained glass studio in Boston.
New England Fiddles (1984) & New England Dances (1990) Fiddle and dance music and the survival of French, Scots, and Yankee dance traditions in the Northeastern United States.
The Land Where The Blues Began (1979) the musical and socio-economic origins of the blues.
Rhesus Play (1977) play in free-ranging monkeys.

Medium ones
Ohana: We Are Family (1998) Multi-camera concert tape of three Los Angeles Hula Halaus in performance at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Paper Flowers & Papal Picado (1993) Traditional paper crafts of a Mexican altarista living in San Francisco.
The Art Of Saving History (1988) the Massachusetts State House.
War & Variations (2003) Performance by Simone Forti, Luke Johnson, and Dale Eunson

Shorts
Solea (2004) Lynn Dally choreography
Red Top Snuff (1999) Byfield Snuff Mill
Tango in the Toilet (1999) Vic Marks choreography
Dalai Lama's Birthday 2000 (2000) Nepal
Gregory Hines at UCLA (2001)
Hand Play (1986) Minkeys and lurmeys, a menagerie of hand creatures created by a nine-year-old boy.
Choose Life (1984) A celebration of anti-nuclear action.
Yoyo Man (1978) how a Filipino toy became American through Duncan yo-yo demonstrators.