Andrea Steudel
Country: USA | Runtime: 5 min
Director: Nick Clausen
One artist is curious about the dimly lit alleyways in downtown St. Paul. Andrea Steudel explores them after dark, and hopes people will see them in a new light.
Emily Stover
Country: USA | Runtime: 6 min
Director: Anna Goranova
Corn is a sensitive topic and one that ignites many debates and conversations. The video shows the way an artist is trying to start a conversation about the different usage of corn and about what it means to us not only as a crop but also as part of the American culture. The video follows the artist Emily Stover in different spaces – farms, roads, and art studios to see her researching the topic, while creating art.
Cecilia Schiller
Country: USA | Runtime: 4 min
Director: Matt Ehling
Cecilia Schiller creates and installs a water-driven kinetic sculpture in a Ramsey Washington Metro Watershed District rain garden at Maplewood Mall.
Traveling Museum
Country: USA | Runtime: 6 min
Director: Beth Peloff
Public artists Lisa Bergh and Andrew Nordin bring art where it doesn’t usually go with The Traveling Museum, their mobile lab/exhibition venue for contemporary art and ideas.
Dodecahedron
Country: USA | Runtime: 6 min
Director: Kevin Obsatz
Dodecahedron is a short documentary which follows the process of artist Jess Hirsch in conceiving and executing her "Peace Haven" project, constructing a small, twelve-surfaced geometric structure to serve as a greenhouse and meditation space for the residents of the Black Dog Hill Shelter for women and children in rural Minnesota.
Ady and the Polygraph
Country: USA | Runtime: 8 min
Director:Barbara Weiner
A year ago, Ady Olson read an article on Cleve Backster, the CIA polygraph expert who spent his life trying to prove plant ‘consciousness’ . Now she is on an adventure to try his experiments for herself with her very own suitcase polygraph. This short film travels with her as she discovers what Cleve calls ‘primary perception’ and explores how to share her fascination of plant intelligence with others through a development grant from the public art organization, Forecast.
Soundtrack of Phillips
Country: USA | Runtime: 7 min
Director: Mark Wojahn
Mankwe Ndosi brings her microphone onto the streets of the Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis to create a digital soundtrack—blending her own vocal work with contributions from neighborhood residents and field recordings.
Terri Huro: Within The Skin
Country: USA | Runtime: 7 min
Director: Emily Goldberg
Terri Huro's project "Within the Skin" is a photography project documenting tattoos, scars, and birthmarks and collecting the stories of the participants. The project was exhibited at the Kanabec County Fair in Mora, MN
Aaron Squadroni
Country: USA | Runtime: 6 min
Director: Lucas Langworthy
This short documentary explores the work of Aaron Squadroni. Influenced by his background in architecture, Aaron designs sculptures that are thoughtful and beautiful. This film looks at a work in progress that explores life in the iron range.
Crescent Collective
Country: USA | Runtime: 6 min
Director: John Akre
Laura Bigger, Artemis Eitsen and Teréz Iacovino are the Crescent Collective, three artists working to create public art that grows food. This video looks at three prototype sculptures they made to experiment with different models of hydroponic growing systems that could be constructed in the public realm. It is public art that you can eat - an idea that grows in importance as people move away from rural areas and cities get denser and attempt to be more sustainable and self-sufficient.
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