Samantha Marie "La Alta"

I make video art, music videos, installations and also try to do good.

"I often think about the person who invented pockets. I don't think people realize how vital pockets are in our daily lives. One day I'll make a fictional film about him/her."

"When visiting a new city I visit the best and worst neighborhoods."

"Mel Brooks proposed to me in front of Anne Bancroft. She said that she'd had enough of him and I could have him if I wanted to."

"I watched MTV for an entire summer all day every day when I was 16, the next year I was working there, 2 years after that I was sitting in the Programming Meetings and had my own office."

"Worked as a bartender in Newcastle Upon Tyne across the street from the football stadium when Newcastle United was top of the league, my arms are still toned from pulling pints back then, and I speak upper-intermediate Geordie."

"Once, when I was living in the Rocinha "favela" in Rio de Janeiro I saw a traficante balance a big energetic monkey and a super big machine gun on a moto. It was 8am in the morning ... monkeys with machine guns: what a way to start your day. I didn't have any furniture, hot water, refrigerator or a stove when I was living in Rocinha ... BUT I had 800 threadcount sheets for my air mattress, technics turntables, a projector and a subwoofer, somehow there was balance."