SMALLSCREEN

An Art of the Rural project dedicated to cinema outside the city. This is the only showcase for rural America's independent film venues, festivals, films, and filmmakers. If you like maps, search 'SMALLSCREEN' on PlaceStories.

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(via BUGARACH - Trailer (ENG) on Vimeo)

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We are not here to make anthropological films. We are working to change the world.

Interesting article that introduced me to many Native American documentaries. By Steve Leuthold, professor at Northern Michigan and author of Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media, and Identity. 

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Badlands by Tomer Hanuka

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Phenakistoscope - France - c. 1833

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Pair of dissolving views - Polytechnic sized magic lantern slides - France - c. 1860

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The University of North Georgia has a new film and video degree! They’ve also been promoting independent cinema in the mountains through new programs and festivals.  (via UNG to host Southeastern Film Festival)

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An incredible new festival in Middlebury, Vermont is giving new directors a shot at screening their work throughout New England. (via The Festival | Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival)

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(via Hunter Mann's Highway... | Story | PlaceStories)

Hunter Mann’s traveling bicycle cinema. In an article for Examiner.com, Adam Voiland said that by 2009, Mann had given "more than 500 free screenings in small towns." He stopped places like "Sumatra, Montana (pop. 5), Bellingham, Minnesota (pop. 224), and Marmoth, North Dakota (pop 102)." 

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Ken Burns | The Dust Bowl

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“I have two acting styles: with and without a horse." 

- Robert Mitchum, born on this day in 1917

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Camden International Film Festival Video on Vimeo

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The Birth of Modern Music American Epic doc by T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford, and Jack White. The three-part historical documentary follows the trail of record company talent scouts from the late 1920s as they toured America with a recording machine to capture the raw expression of an emerging culture whose recordings would lead to the development of the Blues, Country, Gospel, Hawaiian, Cajun, and Folk music.

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Telluride Film Fest sunset

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DESIGN: Wind-Powered Kinetic Sculptures by Anthony Howe

Kinetic sculptor Anthony Howe lives and works in a rural area in Eastsound, Washington surrounded by little more than trees, wind, and other natural elements that inspire his incredible kinetic sculptures.

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I know, I know, it's not cinema. But it is moving art. And too good to not share.

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Spring is in the air!

This cool video was captured a couple weeks ago in Sequoia National Park’s Giant Forest. The hummingbird – called Anna’s Hummingbird – is getting nectar from a snow plant. Only found in California and a small piece of Nevada and southern Oregon, snow plants are a pretty rare sight. These plants lack the color green (and chlorophyll), so they nourish themselves on fungus found in forest floor soils. Video courtesy of Steven Bumgardner.

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(via Telluride Mountainfilm —... | Story | PlaceStories)

“Started in 1979, Telluride Mountainfilm is one of America's longest-running film festivals. Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating, inspiring and motivating audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving, adventures worth pursuing, and conversations worth sustaining."