FREE Event!
Join us for a special one-night screening of a collection of short films by IFP MN filmmakers profiling local public artists, presented by the Film Society, Forecast Public Art, and IFP MN. To reserve your free tickets, click the "BUY TICKETS" button on the right.
Film Lineup
- Dane Winkler - Dir: D. Lucas Langworthy
2013 | 4 min
Dane R. Winkler researches and experiments with various interactive mediums (projection and kinetic works) to develop public art work in rural MN.
- Soundtrack of Phillips - Dir: Mark Wojahn
2014 | 7 min
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.
- River of Iron - Dir: Nicole Brending
2015 | 5 min
Sculptor Tamsie Ringler discusses her work as a "quietly political artist" while staging an iron pour of the Mississippi River watershed.
- Traveling Museum - Dir: Beth Peloff
2014 | 6 min
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.
- Sara Hanson - Dir: Nick Clausen
2013 | 5 min
Sara Hanson creates and exhibits a mobile sculpture with an interactive time capsule component that travels into communities and public spaces.
- Dodecahedron - Dir: Kevin Obsatz
2014 | 6 min
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.
- 8030 - Dir: Neha Belvalkar
2014 | 4 min
This film captures Mara Pelecis’s 8030 project which is an open call to the public to take photographs of 22 everyday objects to commemorate the 22 war veterans who lose their life by suicide each day. The film also captures Mara Pelecis’s inspiration and vision for the project.
- Terri Huro: WITHIN THE SKIN - Dir: Emily Goldberg
2013 | 7 min
Terri Huro's project Within the Skin is a photography project documenting tattoos, scars, and birthmarks. Huro collects the stories of the participants through her exhibits at public events like the Kanabec County Fair.
- Todd Boss - Dir: Mike Hazard
2012 | 6 min
Todd Boss plans a project that will project poetry films on the facade of St Paul's historic Union Depot.
- Crescent Collective - Dir: John Akre
2014 | 5 min
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.
- Cecilia Schiller - Dir: Matt Ehling
2013 | 4 min
Cecilia Schiller creates and installs a water-driven kinetic sculpture in a Ramsey Washington Metro Watershed District rain garden at Maplewood Mall.
- Liz Miller - Dir: Mark Wojahn
2013 | 6 min
Liz Miller develops new materials and fabrication techniques to create Hydro Anthem, an outdoor installation in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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