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S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic (2003)

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Genre: Education/General Interest

Synopsis: Roach has been living on the streets since age 14, he’s rebellious, loud and defiant. As part of S.P.I.T., Roach has been given a camera to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent,... Roach has been living on the streets since age 14, he’s rebellious, loud and defiant. As part of S.P.I.T., Roach has been given a camera to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent, because there’s a war against squeegee kids. The RoachCAM is positioned behind enemy lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, being hunted by police. The viewer is forced to look at the living reality of Roach and his friends: Hungry on the streets in one of the world’s most prosperous countries, classified as thugs, criminals, and enemies. These kids refuse to obey, assimilate, and conform to society’s values - their beliefs and realities are scarred into their flesh in the form of piercings, tattoos, track marks, bruised veins, rotting teeth, gangrene, scurvy... S.P.I.T. shatters the windshield between Us and Them. Roach’s camera acts as the hammer: hard, forceful, direct; impacting with the force of an actual life. Daniel Cross’ camera documents the impact: recording the reflections of individual lives, mirrored upon the shards of flying glass. This is a collaborative film that seizes Punk’s "do-it-yourself" ethos. Local punkers Deadly Pale, Locos and others contributed guttural emotion to the soundtrack. Artist Rick Trembles supplied an apocalyptic animation sequence from Roach’s imagination. Youth and rebellion fuel this film. Daniel Cross makes films with people who traditionally aren’t given a voice. The Street: a film with the homeless has won audience awards and critical acclaim for its frank and compassionate portrayal of three homeless men. During the making of The Street, Cross began to notice more and more homeless young people. Kids sleeping in doorways, squeegeeing for spare change, stepping into traffic and announcing their poverty. Feared by motorists and hunted by police. S.P.I.T. Squeegee Punks in Traffic was created within the bleak reality of this new generation gap. This is an independent, auteur film: daring, cinematic and urgent. [More]

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Entertaining and enlightening as it is urgent.

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05/23/03
Geoff Pevere
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I'm not sure what newsflash S.P.I.T. has for Torontonians. Most are aware that squeegees are often middle-class kids who've run from problems ranging from the teen-angst-exaggerated to the criminally abusive.

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05/23/03
Jim Slotek
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Tthere are too few revelations, insights or explanations to sustain the amount of time we spend there.

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