2020 39th Season Black Maria Film Festival Program
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Grassland<br />
Experimental<br />
by Sarah Kanouse<br />
Jamaica Plain, MA. 19 min.<br />
A poetic and unsettling<br />
excavation of the layers<br />
of belief, ecology,<br />
practice, and geology<br />
that form a northeastern<br />
Colorado landscape.<br />
Cattle grazing, nuclear<br />
missiles, fracking, and<br />
wind power generation co-exist within a few miles of each<br />
other, all unfolding on territory whose ties to the Cheyenne<br />
people were affirmed by US law. The film locates the<br />
grassland in historic and geologic time, ranging over changing<br />
frameworks of ideology, and cosmology, contradictory human<br />
practices, and the material and geological forces of the land<br />
itself. Meditative original footage of the grassland merges<br />
with handmade collage animations and a richly textured<br />
soundtrack.<br />
Through brief<br />
conversations with an<br />
adaptive chatbot, a<br />
professor sees his own<br />
creativity and depression<br />
more clearly. “Guster” is<br />
based on actual messages<br />
and poetry written by the app.<br />
Guster<br />
Animation<br />
by John Kelly<br />
Knoxville, TN. 4 min.<br />
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