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A rootless, world wandering, older man meets a beautiful young photographer who drinks too much. They hook up, travel together, he’s in love, she is not. Then one day she finds him dead in a hotel room in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, gunshot to the chest.
The beauty discovers his notebooks. They are filled with cryptic drawings and strange arrows and the books lead her to a volcano in Rwanda and the mountain gorillas that live there. A transformation is taking place.
On the blackest of nights she performs rituals around a fire and is reborn in a pond on another planet. It is a stark magnificent place, an empty planet with crystals covering the ground. There the beauty discovers a huge monolith, the Tachyon Converter, which takes random bits of information and constructs a reality. In this case it is constructing the narrative of this film.
The part of the movie i just described is already complete and runs about twenty-five minutes. The final movie will be feature length.
In a way I have been using my own Tachyon Converter to make this movie. I take random bits of information and rearrange them into a narrative. The information comes from the places I visit and the situation I find myself in. It is a new way of working for me and it is very exciting. I know where the film is going. It will end at a strange bar called Sweetie Poops as the regular patrons celebrate the last night before the bar closes forever. But I am not sure how it will get there. I discover it as I go along. The movie comes together as my life comes together.
I want to complete this project in the next few months. I would like to pay a few people, rent some locations, and travel a bit more to fill in the blanks of the narrative. Thank you Kickstarter for giving me a shot.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on September 15, 2010.
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And you get a signed copy of my movie RUBIN AND ED
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And you get signed copies of my books, Mondo Utah, and The Wild Goose Chronicles. Two VIP tickets to the premiere.
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And you get signed copies of my books, Mondo Utah, and The Wild Goose Chronicles. Two VIP tickets to the premiere. DVDs of my other feature films: Rubin and Ed, Beaver Trilogy. A DVD of the final project. Your name listed as an Associate Producer on the film's credits.
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And you get signed copies of my books, Mondo Utah, and The Wild Goose Chronicles. Six VIP tickets to the premiere. DVDs of my other feature films: Rubin and Ed, Beaver Trilogy, Plan 10 From Outer Space, Delightful Water Universe, and Cement Ball of Earth Heaven and Hell. A DVD of the final project. Your name listed as an Executive Producer on the credits.
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Independent Film &Video magazine called Trent Harris, “one of America’s premiere cult directors.” Harris has written and directed five feature films: Rubin and Ed, Beaver Trilogy, Plan 10 From Outer Space, Delightful Water Universe, and The Cement Ball of Earth Heaven and Hell. In 2001 The Los Angeles Critics Association awarded Harris, Best Independent Experimental Film, for his feature, Beaver Trilogy. This film was also listed by the London Guardian as one of ”Fifty Lost Masterpieces” and hit the "Top Ten" list of Art Forum Magazine. Oddly, this is Harris’ least favorite film. “It seems the ones I like the most are the ones most panned by the critics. I am influenced more by the paintings of outsider artists more than I am by movies.” Filmmaker Magazine hosted a special screening of Harris work at the Lincoln Center in New York in February of 2008.
A partial selection of recent major screenings of Trent Harris' work include:
British Film Institute - London
Museum of Modern Art - Vienna Austria
Les Laboratories - Aubervilliers France
Sundance Film Festival - Park City, Utah
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, California
Pacific Film Archive - Berkeley California
Lincoln Center - New York City, New York
Harris holds Master Degrees from the University of Utah and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He is also the author of two books, Mondo Utah, and The Wild Goose Chronicles. He has produced dozens of documentaries for television, many in third world countries. His TV awards include: Cine Golden Eagle, Gabriel, and a World Medal from New York Festivals.
