
Bump City
One of Oakland's many nicknames, "Bump City" was also the title of Tower of Power's second album (1972), and John Krich's 1979 book Bump City: Winners and Losers in Oakland, which featured photographs by Dorothea Lange from the collection of the Oakland Museum. Our iteration of Bump City is a series of video portraits, web essays, and online documentaries about Oakland's history and residents.

Joseph R. Knowland built the 21-story Tribune Tower in 1923, on top of a six-floor furniture store that had opened in 1907. For much of the 20th century, it was Oakland’s real seat of political... more

For this installment of Bump City, we talked to East Bay animator Phil Tippett.
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When people found out that we were making work about Oakland, we were asked one question time and again: "What do you know about the general strike?" The answer was, not much. We'd never... more

This project comprises a series of video interviews with sixteen individuals involved with or impacted by Occupy Oakland. The interviews were recorded in March and April 2012.
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