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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

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. 

DEAD BUFFALO TO HAVE ITS EAST COAST PREMIERE

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

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:

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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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