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| An Independent Film Submitting to Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals. Shot On Location in Pine Flat, Arizona, October 7th - 15th. The project began as a haunting - a single image come from out of the dark wilds outside our family cabin in northern Arizona. A woman, strange and ethereal, existing nowhere but my mind's eye, watching from the forest edge. Was she purely a projection of the night? A spirit of wood come to lurk at the encroaching boundaries of civilization? A reflection of some unconcious desire, forever suppresed during daylight hours of conciousness? |
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| The Leaf Maid |
| The image was persistent, evolving of its own volition, taking shape steadily within the guise of a fairy tale, an update for the pages of a latter day Grimm's. For me it was a truth that hid there, peering, peaking out from behind the matted tangle. And it wanted to be seen. Each of us must confront the Wild. Wilds of forest and clearing, of unknown territories and thoughts - at times both deep and forbidding - of mysteries and lives we may apprehend only in part and understand but little. This work is offered up in recognition of such moments. And to moments still to come, beyond such clearings as we have made for ourselves, to a time when we shall walk, perhaps in laughter, perhaps in dread, towards a destination we can never know. -- Wendall Brown |