on the Edge, Mackey's third feature, an experimental documentary about a vernacular celebration, premiered at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal in 1996. His documentary website, Memory Palace: Vernacular Culture in the Digital Age, was nominated for a WebSage Streamers Award and was featured in Forbes magazine (1999). In 2000 Mackey worked without a crew or lights to produce Disrobing the Emperor: The New Commons in Mexico, a profile of three impoverished communities. Eyes in the Back of Your Head (2003) was made in collaboration with ex-federal inmates in Kingston, Ontario. Mackey's 2010 book, Random Acts of Culture, documents his decades-long study of vernacular culture and outlines his view of it. The book argues that, in addition to fine art and mass culture, there is a third category of cultural expression: vernacular culture. Examples of this are conversations between friends, social gatherings and rituals, play and participatory sports, informal storytelling, musical jam sessions, cooking and gardening, homemade architecture, and street festivals. Mackey maintains that practising and celebrating these unscripted activities—at the expense of passive, consumer culture—would benefit both people and communities. Recent work Since 2010, as producer, writer, and/or director, Mackey has made micro-budget productions about community activism in Eastern Ontario. Til the Cows Come Home (2014) documents citizen opposition to the closure of the prison farm at Collins Bay Institution, in Kingston, in 2010. His feature-length archival documentary, Revolution Begins at Home (2016) recounts the story of his own family and radical politics in Toronto of the late 1960s. In 2022, he released a fictional audio drama, in six episodes, The Makers and Shakers Society. Media Television and film On Nothing Days (1967) Ruins (1968) Grass (1968) Mihi P. (1969) The Only Thing You Know (1970) A Right To Live (1975) All Day Long (1983) Pulling Flowers (1984) Taking Care (1987) Dance on the Edge (1995) Disrobing the Emperor (2000) Eyes in the Back of Your Head (2003) New Season Coming (2008) Til the Cows Come Home (2014) Revolution Begins at Home (2016) On the Day the World Begins Again (2019) Audio drama The Makers and Shakers Society (2022) Books Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century (2010). Toronto: Between the Lines. . References External links Personal Web page Telltales Media Vimeo page Memory Palace (1997) The Makers and Shakers Society (2022) Film directors from Ontario Living people 1950 births Canadian