Brian Ashby

Set within Chicago’s labyrinth of alleyways, Scrappers is a cinéma vérité portrait of Otis and Oscar—two scrap metal scavengers searching for a living with brains, brawn, and battered pickup trucks. The film elucidates how globalization, the 2008 financial crisis, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, and widespread scrap metal theft affect these men and their families.

A 3D documentary film that chronicles the story of a marine veteran who navigated the profound traumas of war by making art, becoming a hero to generations of artists, including his friends Ed Ruscha and Frank Gehry, among others interviewed in this immersive film.

ACCIDENT, MD is a survey of attitudes about America's health care crisis filmed in and around the small town of Accident, Maryland.

In the early and uncertain days of the Coronavirus lockdown, Chicago needed a beacon of creative unity. The Quarantine Concerts began streaming on March 20th, enabled by the Experimental Sound Studio and featuring envelope-pushing artists from around the globe.

Using reconsidered amateur footage and testimony from Chicago, FLIGHT LOGS unveils fear, profiteering, violence, community, and humanity experienced under racist systems during the "white flight" that shaped American neighborhoods -- from the perspective of families who lived it.

A five-year odyssey of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where more than 400 African-American families are being displaced by a multi-billion dollar freight company. The documentary film follows homeowner-turned-activist Deborah Payne, who vows to be "the last house standing," and the Row Row Boys, teen friends who must start a new life across gang lines.