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Drilling - the Ancestors This short video project was created by John Armstrong & Tom Roschkov for a National Call to Enter for The Works: Art & Design in Public Places program It was awared 2nd place in the competition and will be featured in a video loop on the theme of "Nature as Capital" in downtown Edmonton. http://www.theworks.ab.ca
	The video images in Drilling were shot by John Armstrong on a cold November afternoon in 2002. Vince Sanregret played driver as John shot footage of the numerous oil derricks in the vicinity of South Cooking Lake, Alberta.
The still images were taken by Tom Roschkov in the foothills of Alberta, on a weekend in October 2002 when the Stone Merchants were performing at Castaways in Edson. John and Tom enhanced the images..
	The music for Drilling was taken from a piece called Heaving, which may be found on the Ancestors first self-titled recording. The song was recorded live in Kelly Pikula's basement sometime in late-1997. Tom was singing through a 2 litre plastic bottle.
"Heaving" written and recorded by the Ancestors music by John Armstrong, Kelly Pikula & Tom Roschkov copyright 1997 SOCAN from the Ancestors' self-titled CD Release released 1998 Brass Monkey Productions
	directed by Tom Roschkov produced by John Armstrong Brass Monkey Productions .com P.O. Box 47033, 62 Edmonton Centre Edmonton, AB T5J 4N1 CANADA www.brassmonkeyproductions.com MMII copyright 2002 all rights reserved