Sylmar,
november 2008
Video / 16 min
/ colour / Sylmar by Los Angeles / 2009
Sylmar
is a district of San Fernando Valley on the outskirts of the city of Los
Angeles,
California.
A
"mobile home" - village has burned down in November 2008.
The
film observes people who came back to their home to see and save what remained
after the burn.
ãSylmar, a 1950's-era suburb of Los Angeles in the Northeast San
Fernando Valley, is longtime horse country, filled with remote trails, grassy
hills, dry ravines and low scrub that burns easily, and the entire Valley is
especially dry after a very long spell without appreciable rain in Southern
California.
With the Oakridge Park mobile home development in the San Fernando
Valley looking as if it had been "hit by a nuclear bomb," and roughly
500 of its 700 closely packed houses burned down to soft piles of ash, the Los
Angeles Police Department declared the Sayre Fire a massive crime scene.Ò
LA Weekly - Saturday, Nov. 15 2008 @ 4:53PM
