This year’s festival is August 20/21 at 7pm each night.
Friday Evening, August 20 7pm
How Not to be Seen– By Beth Peloff You get an invitation to a party. You are an introvert. An instructional film. 4 min
Melt – By Christopher Rohde & Kenneth Warner A four-minute experimental film involving butter. 4 min
World Within – By Sakshi Jain “Do not try to measure someone’s steps from above”. 2 min
Ocean Grass – By Dan Fitzpatrick Artist Cecilia Ramon has mowed a pattern of the Thermalheline in the grass by the barn because that is what artists do. 2 min
Browsing History – By Rachel Prost This VHS store is still in operation! 10 min
Maamawi – By Johnathan Thunder An animation exploring what is hard to explore. 5 min
Henry’s Scrapbook – By John Akre In 1953 Henry Akre visited San Francisco. In 2003 his great-grandson visited the same spot. They both recorded their trips. 6 min
Museum of woodcarving – By Nik Nerburn What happened to the Museum of Woodcarving? 7 min
Delta of Spirit – By Nicholas Kapanke The DAMn is a 240 mile gravel road bike race across Minnesota. Watch the movie so you don’t have to ride it. 20 min
Let the Blonde Sing – By Rachel Knoll An intimate look into a small community in Alaska through the eyes of Beverly Sue Waltz, the bartender of the only bar open all-year-round. 13 min
Duality Derby – By Mark Miller, Dave Franzese Local racing legend Victor Elaine squares-off against his greatest rival. 20 min
Saturday Evening, August 21 7pm
Final Act – By Miguel Amendola-Borrallo, Clara Obeidi, Yohan Gantelet,Lucie Krencker, Geoffrey Rakotoarisoa, and Antonin Géral-Ariès Hunters will go to extraordinary lengths for their prey. Sometimes those measures lead to unexpected consequences. 8 min
We Don’t Deserve Dogs – By Matthew Salleh, Rose Tucker A contemplative odyssey across the globe, looking at the simple and extraordinary ways that dogs influence our daily lives. 84 min
Hugo – By Justin Christopher Ayd “Pets aren’t just pets, they’re family” 5 min
Strawberry Shake – By Dianne Bellino A mother tries to win back her two kids with a pet rabbit and pink dessert. 16 min
Snowy – By Kaitlyn Schwalje & Alexander Lewis Is a pet turtle happy? 12 min
We just wanted to let everyone know that we are going to hold the festival this year! We’re planning on providing seating inside and outside the barn, weather permitting, but we’ll still provide organic popcorn to put inside your belly. Come see use August 20 or 21st!
Sometimes being free range means that you adapt to your environment and right now its not looking healthy to invite a lot of folks into a big barn to watch movies at the end of June. We’ve decided that we will delay the Free Range Film Festival until we can provide a safe viewing experience for everyone. We still think it’s important to see the movies in (or on) the barn so we aren’t planning on offering a virtual experience. We ARE extending our submissions deadline though so you now have until June 15 to create a farm fresh film. Thank you all for supporting the arts as we stay home – wherever that may be!
As of now (March 20, 2020) we are still operating on the hope that we will host some sort of barn based film festival this summer. I understand that this may change or how you see the festival may change. It might just be me and a chicken live-streaming it to your home. Whatever the case, you can still apply and we will still make sure your moving images is 100% certified farm fresh. Just click on over to https://filmfreeway.com/FreeRangeFilmFestival
Now here is a photo of some rutabagas as a reward for sending us your film:
This fall the Free Range Film Barn is hosting a visual art! Field Trials II features the work of Catherine Meier and Kristina Estell. The two artists will use the space as a lab space for the generation and exhibition of new work. In agricultural terms, field trials offer farmers the opportunity to see how new practices might be adapted and to closely observe how these management decisions might function on a larger scale. Farmers as well as artists try to minimize failure yet innovation and creativity often comes from taking risks and exploring new ideas. Field Trials II offers a space for artists and audiences to invite chance and wild growth into the artistic process.
Catherine
Meier explores the meaning of “open space” through animation, site-specific
installations, and large-scale prints and drawings. Representing a state of
mind as well as a state of being, these expansive works are redolent of the
artist’s own travels crossing the Great Plains of North America and the Mongolian
Steppe where her experience of freedom and boundlessness also fueled feelings
of fear and paranoia. Meier has shown her work in gallery and museum settings
in the Midwest, South, and Japan, at film festivals, and in the very landscapes
that gave rise to her drawings. She has a BFA in Studio Art from the University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, and an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Most recently, she was an Artist in Residence at Badlands National Park in
South Dakota, and her awards include a national Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for
Graduate study, three from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, and a McKnight
Visual Artist Fellowship.
Kristina Estell uses daily encounters with natural and constructed environments to generate ideas of implicit action and reaction. Using a variety of processes and materials, Estell creates sculpture, installation, interactive and watercolor works that generate sensitive and dynamic material experiences. She exhibits and participates in creative projects nationally and internationally.
PLEASE NOTE: We programmed four films with exclamation points this year! That was not intentional!
Friday Evening, June 29
7pm
TERRITORY! (3m)
Meow! A line has been drawn and you can’t cross it. Directed by Kittytron Churro and Zoltron Monsieur.
IN OUR WORLD (2m)
Witches are evil. Ghosts are evil. Fire girl is evil. Directed by Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson.
JESSZILLA (7m)
Jesselyn Silva is a monster in the ring. And she’s only 10 years old! Directed by Emily Sheskin.
LESSONS FROM EXES (11m)
The title of this anthology film is also a three-word short story. Directed by Misti Boland, Lyn Elliot, Meg Jamieson, Caitlin Horsmon, Mary C. Taylor.
MY DEAD DAD’S PORNO TAPES (14m)
By Charlie Tyrell
How does a stack of poorly hidden VHS tapes define a person? Directed by Charlie Tyrell.
MINI MOGUL MASTERS MUD MENAGERIE (5m)
The greatest movie ever made is in an empty case. Directed by John Akre.
THE LAST WINDOW SHOW (4m)
Chris Monroe makes the last window show for Treehouse Records. Directed by John Akre.
GRANDPA BEN (20m)
Benjamin Vickery Jr. can seriously carve. And paint. And draw. Directed by Justin Christopher Ayd.
SAUL’S 108th STORY (6m)
Saul was a teenager who wanted to hang out with his friends. Something else happened. Directed by Joshua Carlon.
BREAK
Music by Maple & Beach
9:30pm
LUNA (2m)
People on the moon are clearly dog people. Directed by Yi Rong Jhong.
RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE (71m)
This movie should be subtitled: “Large Semi-Aquatic Beaverlike Rodents with Giant Orange Teeth.” Or: “Why I Live Up North.” Directed by Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer, Quinn Costello
Saturday Afternoon, June 30
2pm
AQUARIUM (6m)
The gorgeous underwater videography in this film will not remind you of Kevin Costner’s Waterworld. Directed by Stephanie Maxwell.
FIRE & LIGHT (11m)
A documentary about fire juggling?! Don’t try this at home. Or near the barn. Directed by Dana Johnson.
PAULETTE IN PARIS (17m)
This is like the origin story of Batman and Robin, except Batman is a pickpocket and Robin is a young girl. Directed by Isabelle Metcalf.
BLOB’S ADVENTURE (4m)
Poor Blob has quite a time of it. Directed by Beth Peloff.
JUST COFFEE (11m)
By Matt Dressel
11 minutes
How far can one man take a diner’s free refill policy? Directed by Matt Dressel.
TAKE THE DOG FOR A WALK! (6m)
When was the last time you stumbled upon a portal to the spirit world while walking the dog? Directed by Emily McNeill.
EGG EATING CHICKEN (4m)
Think about that title for a second. Directed by Rachel Yurkovich.
KINDERCHOMPER (17m)
Clutch is just a simple baby-eater looking for dinner. Directed by Mike Scholtz.
NORTH POLE, NY (69m)
This story of a Christmas theme park in New York is on the nice list. Directed by Ali Cotterill.
Saturday Evening, June 30
7pm
CIRCUS (2m)
This is how your brain remembers the circus. Directed by Lindsay Greer.
BIG BROWN’S TV SLAP-DOWN! (1m)
TV is not always good for “friendships.” Directed by Cable Hardin.
IT’S GOTTA BE IN YA! (6m)
A concrete park is saved from annihilation! Directed by Kara Mulrooney.
SILICONE SOUL (71m)
Relationships with real human beings can be hard. Here’s an alternative… Directed by Melody Gilbert
BREAK
Music by Portrait of a Drowned Man
9:30pm
SUNSCAPADES (6m)
Always wear sunscreen. Directed by Ben Mitchell.
HUS (2m)
If that Sunday morning real estate show Homes by Edmunds was any good, it would look like this: lots and lots of houses. By Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
306 HOLLYWOOD (95m)
A brother and sister treat their late grandmother’s house like an archaeological excavation to search for the life that remains in the objects we leave behind. Directed by Elan & Jonathan Bogarin.
