my very public debut

this is the cover art for the dvd of the short documentary i worked on this past year. the project never had a budget though we did receive a small grant to get editing and duplication done. The story is a great one and deserves to be told in full not just in 12 minutes. My collaborator and the project's producer, Ann Coulter, really made it possible and was very patient with me and some of my very stupid mistakes.. i was honored to be in the mix (shooting + then pulling edit together) and making new friends and trying something new. i never said i knew what i was doing....

The art installation where the story takes place is now nationally acclaimed and the artists, all back in Oklahoma, are getting some great attention. And i have 5 more brothers in ken, bill, robbie, demos and gary. Thanks to Ann, who is a Loeb fellow at Harvard University, the short had its world premiere at the Loeb Conference, "The Soul Of Place." this past May in Cambridge. Nice huh?

The broader discussion of what cities can do with public art and history is touched on in our documentary and Chattanooga has been recognized as a city with some really progressive initiatives. (...uh, was until the last election that is.) I even had to sit on a panel at the Regional History Museum and discuss the topic with Ann and others after they'd showed the short movie. weird.

and we were included in the 7th annual Artists and Authors sale here where they had this to say:

"This years show will also showcase a new film project by two of Chattanoogas own. This year we are really excited that Ann Coulter and filmmaker Mary Barnett will be at the show to talk about One Road, a film that documents the story of the making of the Passage at Rosss Landing, Shavin says. Its a great project, and it brings another creative dimension to the concept of art and authors."

26 copies were sold during the one day evvent.