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Hayley Downs

University of Miami; Maine Film Workshops. Downs has been documenting Florida subcultures for several years. She creates "scratch videos". Exhibitions: NY Underground Film Festival; Chicago Film Festival; John Hopkins Film Festival; San Francisco Film Festival.

She created "Move", a commission by Miami Light Project, a non-profit performing arts organization, which continues to be widely shown. Her scratch video "BoarHog" screened at Art Basel in 2003. She has been documenting cracker culture, or multi-generational folk culture for the last three years.

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Hayley Downs; University of Miami and Maine Film Workshops; documents Florida subcultures and has documented cracker culture, or multi-generational folk culture, for the last three years; she creates scratch videos. Her work has screened at the NY Underground Film Festival; Chicago Film Festival; John Hopkins Film Festival; and San Francisco Film Festival; she created Move as a commission by Miami Light Project, which continues to be widely shown, and her scratch video BoarHog screened at Art Basel in 2003.

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