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It's been about four years since The Cricket last heard from Steven Greenstreet, when the former Utah filmmaker was getting viral attention for his video "Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street."
Since then, he's been on the road with the singer Kesha, directing her 2013 MTV documentary mini-series "My Crazy Beautiful Life."
But now Greenstreet is returning his attention to his former home state, in an ambitious online project.
This morning, Greenstreet posted a trailer for his next documentary mini-series, "There Is a Place." The series will be based on video Greenstreet shot in Utah from 2004 to 2006, capturing vignettes of life in the Beehive State.
The work is billed as "an anthology of strange, funny and heartbreaking stories inside the Mormon enclave of Utah." The trailer hints at some of the stories Greenstreet aims to tell, from the closure of a strip club near Temple Square to the media frenzy surrounding the murder of Lori Soares Hacking.
Greenstreet said he set aside the footage, some 120 hours' worth, when he started filming the brouhaha surrounding documentarian Michael Moore's 2004 appearance at what was then Utah Valley State College. That visit, and the controversy that swirled around it (including a counterpoint appearance by Fox News' Sean Hannity), were the basis of Greenstreet's first film, "This Divided State." (He also was co-director, with Reed Cowan, of the 2010 documentary "8: The Mormon Proposition," which examined the influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on California's anti-gay ballot initiative Prop. 8.)
Greenstreet has launched a crowd-funding drive, on the Indiegogo website, to raise $5,000 to finish the film — which he aims to release episodically, online, starting in December.