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Shoals
Winner - Experimental Film Prize, 2012 Athens International Film Festival
"[A] fever dream of a vivid natural landscape…
affecting for its hushed soundtrack and low-grain photography." Chicago Reader
"[A] strangely compelling—almost mesmerizing—work. . .like Malick meets David Lynch,
if you want a comparison, but in a deeper sense, Shoals is pretty much its own beast. . ." (Mountain Xpress)
A prairie grotesque. On the grounds of a rural sanitarium, three young women search for wellness,
as a cult leader seeks to control their bodies through labor and daily rituals.
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16mm to HD, 2011, 52mins.
World Premiere: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
This project made possible with support from
Artadia: The Fund for Art & Dialogue and the Illinois Arts Council
