Shorts Block: ART IN THE WILD

2403 Flora Street,Dallas TX 75201

14 May, 2022

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Saturday, May 14, 8:00pm: ART IN THE WILD Hamon Hall ART IN THE WILD What happens when you retrace the steps of an indigenous painter one hundred years later? WHen you share a meal in the great outdoors? Capture the beauty of a running river? Art in the Wild takes us on a journey into the inspiration and inception that nature grants us when we venture through its wilderness. Featuring Short Films: 80º North An Eye for Detail Camp Yoshi If I Tell Them Like a River Rockies Repeat The Interconnectedness of All Living Things Thomas Deninger. Trash Artist. Screening Times: Thur. May 12 – Hall Arts – 1:30pm Sat. May 14 – Hamon Hall – 8:00pm Short Film: 80º NORTH (dir. Brandon Holmes) Runtime: 15min Year: 2019 80º North follows a group of international artists as they explore the Arctic island chain of Svalbard. Set against dramatic natural backdrops, the artists share their hopes, fears and insights on encountering an environment undergoing radical change. Meet the Director: Brandon Holmes is a filmmaker and writer living in New York. He is interested in how we relate to the landscapes around us. His short films have been screened at festivals around the US. His writing has been published in Catapult and Guernica, and received support from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference. Holmes has worked as a documentary editor and assistant on award-winning films produced by Alex Gibney at Jigsaw Productions, Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria for FRONTLINE, and Ric Burns at Steeplechase Films. Short Film: AN EYE FOR DETAIL (dir. Matthew Harmer) Runtime: 6min Year: 2019 After being diagnosed with autism at age 11, Alfie Bowen was bullied constantly throughout school, which resulted in suicide attempts and psychosis. Through his love for animals and passion for photography, Alfie discovered a way to deal with the darkness. An Eye For Detail explores how nature and art can become not only an outlet for those living with disabilities, but a therapy for people struggling from mental illness. Meet the Director: Brandon Holmes is a filmmaker and writer living in New York. He is interested in how we relate to the landscapes around us. His short films have been screened at festivals around the US. His writing has been published in Catapult and Guernica, and received support from the Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference. Holmes has worked as a documentary editor and assistant on award-winning films produced by Alex Gibney at Jigsaw Productions, Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria for FRONTLINE, and Ric Burns at Steeplechase Films. Short Film: CAMP YOSHI (dir. Faith E. Briggs) Runtime: 10min Year: 2021 After being diagnosed with autism at age 11, Alfie Bowen was bullied constantly throughout school, which resulted in suicide attempts and psychosis. Through his love for animals and passion for photography, Alfie discovered a way to deal with the darkness. An Eye For Detail explores how nature and art can become not only an outlet for those living with disabilities, but a therapy for people struggling from mental illness. Meet the Director: Faith E. Briggs is a creative producer and filmmaker who is passionate about sharing contemporary stories that widen the spectrum of representation. Briggs’ favorite feelings are a tie between sun on skin and warm mud oozing between bare toes. Briggs is grateful for the life changing knowledge of literary grandmothers such as Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara and many more. Short Film: IF I TELL THEM (dir. Oliver Sutro) Runtime: 13min Year: 2021 This short film follows James Sampsel, a plein air painter and fly-fishing guide, as he comes to terms with his past and a bi-polar diagnosis that hangs over his future. If I Tell Them is a visually stunning glimpse into the vulnerable element of mental illness and nature’s powerful capacity to heal. Meet the Director: Oliver Sutro is a director, cinematographer and photographer based in Carbondale, Colorado. Sutro crafts short stories and shoots commercial photography for outdoor brands such as Orvis, Columbia and Yeti. Short Film: LIKE A RIVER (dir. Jim Aikman) Runtime: 4min Year: 2021 Artist and climber Jeremy Collins has had a long and loving relationship with the desert canyons of the American southwest. He describes his passion for three canyons, and creates a new mural that combines them on paper in the short film Like a River. Screening Times: Thur. May 12 – Hall Arts – 1:30pm Thus. May 12 - Strauss Square (Opening Night Showcase) - 6:45pm Sat. May 14 – Hamon Hall – 8:00pm Meet the Director: Jim Aikman is an award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer, writer and commercial director living in Portland, Oregon. Aikman works on feature and short documentaries, podcasts, web series, branded content and more. Aikman works for dozens of clients and distributors around the world. Aikman specializes in character driven stories about adventure, natural history, science and the triumph of the human spirit. Short Film: ROCKIES REPEAT (dir. Carline Hedin) Runtime: 20min Year: 2021 Rockies Repeat grapples with the cultural impacts of climate change in the Canadian Rockies. The film follows a team of Indigenous and settler artists as they trek into the mountains to reinterpret the work of early Banff painter, Catharine Robb Whyte, to see familiar places from new perspectives a century later. Meet the Director: Caroline Hedin is a director, producer and science communicator driven to tell stories of discovery and culture on the leading edge of conservation. Hedin’s recent work includes a five-part web series documenting the efforts to reintroduce bison to the backcountry of Banff National Park. Short Film: THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF ALL LIVING THINGS (dir. Jeff den Broeder) Runtime: 10min Year: 2021 The Interconnectedness of all Living Things documents the making of Georgia Hodges’ mural and her work to incorporate excerpts from the Green New Deal into the mural. This mural, and film, is an effort to depoliticize the Green New Deal by making the actual language not only accessible, but visually beautiful. Meet the Director: Jeff den Broeder, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, runs the video production company Everywhen Creative and has been an Environmental Communications lecturer at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. Broeder has increasingly focused his passion for storytelling on people, organizations and companies driven to develop solutions to the climate crisis. Short Film: THOMAS DEININGER. TRAST ARTIST. (dir. Gnarly Bay) Runtime: 4min Year: 2021 The film Thomas Deininger. Trash Artist. welcomes us into an artist’s world of anxiety and hope surrounding human consumption. Both the art and the film work to reconstruct our understanding of trash in order to confront the perverse plastic waste catastrophe that humanity needs to stop ignoring. Screening Times: Thur. May 12 – Hall Arts – 1:30pm Thus. May 12 - Strauss Square (Opening Night Showcase) - 6:45pm Sat. May 14 - Hall Arts - 1:30pm Sat. May 14 – Hamon Hall – 8:00pm Meet the Director: Gnarly Bay is a production company in Westerly, Rhode Island. We are a team of young, ambitious filmmakers that strive to make content that evokes human emotion, inspiration and reflection. https://www.earthxfilmfestival.org