Artist Statements
Point A.
Point A was something my best friend Sean wrote I think as a way to give me something to do while my mom was in chemo. And in some sense it worked I just put everything I was feeling in those long days into the characters and their circumstances. Seeing how my father brother and I reacted to my mom’s treatment made me feel the need to write something about almost the danger of under sharing. I believe that it’s important to know all of us are carrying years of weight but also to question how many of us can change a person’s life with a little extra effort?
Still Landscape
Still Landscape is my most personal piece it deals with things that I don’t ever know if I will stop thinking about. Guilt, loss, the people who have become ghosts to you while still living. While the brutality of this film is immense it allows me to explore these subtle topics much more fully. Collin’s loss of self-worth from his hands and the horror Tate goes through when she sees his unknowing eyes on the mountaintop. Those feelings transcend horrific death or magical realism circumstances.
Fields
Fields is something that felt inevitable to write. The environment and people who inspired the script are larger than life and the all-boys catholic high school is too good of a setting to pass up. I wanted to use that setting and those experiences and write something about it and football felt like a perfect vehicle. This genre element allows me to further investigate systems of power while maintaining a wider general audience.