Projection as Protest

Light Projection is a powerful, nondestructive way to nonviolently exercise your First Amendment right to free speech and to amplify the visibility of the causes you care about. Over the past decade, Backbone Campaign has spread this excellent tactic to allies across the country. Light projection comes in many forms. Backbone presents the techniques that are most accessible, affordable, and effective on a budget. Below are a variety of examples, trainings, and resources. We also include a documentary featuring our work and a conversation with the filmmaker and Backbone co-founder and light projection expert Bill Moyer.

To start, here's our training, hosted by Bill:

If you found that interesting, here's a HowTo document on the materials and methods for this style of projection, prepared by one of Backbone's excellent network of artful activists.

Also, here's our most recent training on digital light projection, hosted by Jeff Snyder:

This training features four projectionists and the various methods they use:

Backbone Campaign recently screened the short documentary, Projecting Protest

Projecting Protest features our and others work. Warning, the documentary includes people motivated by a very different and offensive value system. They use a laser technology that Backbone does NOT utilize, nor promote due to its legal and safety issues. Our screening included an interesting conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker Tom Clement and Bill Moyer.
(There is also a mini How To Project overview about 30 minutes in.)

Here's the documentary, followed by our conversation with the filmmaker below it:

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Projection on US Supreme Court on the 2nd anniversary of Citizens United

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