This is a trailer for Portrait of resistance, a feature length documentary on the art and activism of Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge. In 1975 Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge made their first pioneering step as artist activists when they asked themselves this question: What should be more important to an artist — commodity value$ or community value? Since then they have collaborated with each other — and with a range of community activists — to make art for social change. Canadian Art magazine recently recognized Condé and Beveridge as “the social conscience of the Canadian art world.” Internationally acclaimed U.S. art writer and critic, Lucy Lippard, has proclaimed that Condé and Beveridge are unique in the annals of contemporary “political art.” PORTRAIT OF RESISTANCE explores Condé and Beveridge’s stunning body of staged photographic work, and witnesses the artists in action as they produce new works about the environment, issues of social justice, the rights of workers and the current global financial crisis. The film’s director producer is Roz Owen and editor producer is Jim Miller.

Owen and Miller are very close to completing their 72 minute feature documentary, but are raising final funds to get it done.  Their fund raising web site is http://www.indiegogo.com/PORTRAIT-OF-RESISTANCE and their production web site is http://www.indiegogo.com/PORTRAIT-OF-RESISTANCE