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SPRING 2012

The Search for Norumbega and America, America (2012) to premiere at the Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, SC.

The Search for Norumbega (2012; 16mm; 19:00; Georg Koszulinski)
On the earliest European maps of North America, the unexplored region of present-day Maine was often labeled “Norumbega.” The fabled land was said to be hidden within this vast wilderness, and numerous cartographies placed Norumbega along Maine’s Penobscot River. But did Norumbega ever actually exist, or was it simply a European projection onto an unknown North American landscape—the desire to imagine a space divorced from the problems of European history? If Norumbega was anything more than a mythologized landscape, the limits of knowledge fail to prove its existence. Perhaps the poetic capabilities of the moving image will manifest an alternative future geography—a Norumbega that exists beyond the limits of history, cartography, and nationality.



LAST STOP, FLAMINGO (in production)

 
 
An imaginary Everglades landscape (left) ignores the road that bisects the ancient River of Grass.

The third installment in the trilogy of Florida films,
Last Stop, Flamingo takes one last critical look at the Sunshine State. Cracker Crazy (2007) examined Florida's "Invisible Histories," largely utilizing found footage to reveal the myths that have come to define Florida's past. Immokalee U.S.A. (2008) studied the present-day exploitation of labor in Florida's farmlands--a history of slavery and peonage that dates back to Spanish conquest and persists into the present day. Last Stop, Flamingo investigates a region defined by imaginary histories and landscapes, from the drained and dredged river known as The Everglades to the man-made & artificial beaches that make up Florida's coastline.

SCOTT CAMIL WILL NOT DIE

synopsis:
For nearly 40 years, Scott Camil has worked as an educator and activist visiting classrooms and lecture halls speaking out against war as “organized murder.” Scott Camil Will Not Die focuses on Camil's work in these spaces, examining the intersections between Camil as historical figure, Camil as educator, and Camil as himself—a complex individual who struggles with the psychological traumas of war and refuses to be silenced.

view the trailer


A HIGHWAY CALLED 301: an audio/visual archaeology of U.S. Highway 301

U.S. Route 301, designated in 1932 as a spur of U.S. Route 1, runs from Sarasota, Florida northward through the Atlantic states and ends just beyond the Delaware Bridge.  Presently, one-thousand and ninety-nine miles of highway connect small towns, bisect otherwise rural landscapes, and provide a vital corridor for commerce and travel. 

A multitude of abandoned structures pepper the landscape and provide evidence of a cultural apparatus that extends both spatially (alongside the highway) and temporally (into past-present-future).  What can the fragmentary evidence of remaining structures, or archi-textures, tell us about the past-present-future cultures who occupy these spaces?  This audio-visual study seeks to answer this question, less in the form of visual-anthropology (ethnographic documentary) and more in the uncharted territory of visual-archaeology (science-non-fiction).
 

IMMOKALEE U.S.A. & CRACKER CRAZY TELEVISION PREMIERE

The Documentary Channel and Substream Films have partnered to bring Cracker Crazy: Invisibile Histories of the Sunshine State and Immokalee U.S.A. to television audiences nationwide.  The July 13th television premiere will bring Georg Koszulinski's subversive documentaries to over 21 million homes. 

View the complete press release and the DOC Channel interview with Georg Koszulinski.


DEAD BUFFALO TO HAVE ITS EAST COAST PREMIERE


The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and the Maine International Film Festival are set to screen Substream Film's latest production.

"Scored to a terrific soundtrack by Indie band Desperanto, Dead Buffalo examines American culture through the eyes of Charlie Johnson, terminally ill but embarking on a road trip from the American south to the Great Plains of the West, reluctantly accompanied by his son, Dusty. A road movie with a real ending, Dead Buffalo is a testament to native American resiliency—in both our culture and as embodied in the very process of filmmaking."  (program notes, 12th Annual Maine International Film Festival)



Dusty (Drew Blair) and Charlie Johnson (Shamrock Mcshane) play the
father/son duo in Dead Buffalo


IMMOKALEE U.S.A. WINTER/SPRING 2009 UPDATE:

The 21st Annual U.S. Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival recently awarded Immokalee U.S.A. 
BEST DOCUMENTARY

"The moving plight of Latino migrant workers in a typical southern Florida town is chronicled with intelligence, sensitivity and restraint in this low-key but accessibly engaging, powerfully provocative new social-economic documentary from one of the state's (and indeed the States') most promising non-fiction filmmakers. Very seldom have the “fruits” of labour seemed so hard-won, and, on reflection, so very bitter." - Program Notes, National Media Museum/Bradford Film Festival, UK

Georg Koszulinski’s experimental travelogue film, America in Pictures continues its international tour with the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Comprised entirely of 16mm found footage, Fragments from an Endless War continues where AIP left off, examining an era that has been defined by a state of permanent economic and military warfare .


FALL 2008:

Immokalee U.S.A., a feature length documentary chronicling the lives of migrant farmworkers in the United States, was recently awarded Best Documentary at
the
Charlotte Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival and Docufest Atlanta awarded Georg Koszulinski Best Director

SUMMER 2008:


CRACKER CRAZY was recently nominated by the American Library Association
as a “Notable Video of the Year.”  Learn more about the nomination and past winners of the ALA’s video award. Cracker Crazy was also recently added to the National Film Network’s list of titles available for distribution.  The NFN focuses their efforts towards universities and libraries, including rights to public exhibition. 


AMERICA IN PICTURES, Koszulinski’s experimental travelogue film, recently screened as an Opening Night Selection at the 46
th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival.  The film was selected as part of the festival’s international tour of “festival favorites,” bringing the Avant-Garde to Universities, Museums and Microcinemas across the U.S. and abroad. 

  The feature-length documentary is an account of migrant farmworkers in the U.S.A.  More dates to follow, FALL2008/WINTER2009 
View the Trailer


GOD’S CARTOONIST, a feature-length documentary exploring the comic art of Jack Chick, the world’s most widely-distributed underground comic artist, announced as Substream’s latest DVD acquisition:

For nearly forty years, Chick Publications under the leadership of Jack T. Chick has published nearly one billion religious tracts (palm sized comics) that are now distributed in over 100 languages around the world. In the process, Jack Chick's name has become revered in the world of fundamentalist teachings, reviled among dozens of major religions and banned as hate literature in several countries including Canada.  Learn More at the film’s official website.



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May 4-6
The Search for Norumbega
screens at the Milwaukee
Underground Film Festival


April 2012
Fragments from an Endless War (2008) released through The Journal of Short Film, vol. 24


April 19-29, 2012
The Search for Norumbega and America, America screen at the Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC


April 12-14, 2012
Ghost, This is Not a Pipe Bomb and Workout Video screen at the Iowa City Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, IA


April 3, 2012
Immokalee U.S.A. screens at Proteus Gowanus, NY, NY


February 11, 2012
Immokalee U.S.A. Screens at the Freeze Frame Film Festival,
Beacon, NY


January 3, 2012
Immokalee U.S.A. Screens at the Rush Library Film Series, Edison State College, Fort Myers, FL


October 2011
A Highway Called 301 screens at the
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot Springs, AR


September 22-25, 2011
Scott Camil Will Not Die screens at
Docufest Atlanta



July 15-24, 2011
Scott Camil Will Not Die premieres at the
Maine International Film Festival
Waterville, ME


April 13-17, 2011
A Highway Called 301 screens at the Indie Grits Film Festival
Columbia, SC


March 10-12, 2011
Collage as History in Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99, presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
New Orleans, LA


February 25-26, 2011
A Highway Called 301 screens at the University of Miami's Modern Language's Spaces of Relation Conference


February 18-20, 2011
White House screens at the Florida Experimental Film Festival, Gainesville, FL

































 

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