Creative Capital

Brent Green Paulina Hollers

Discipline
Film/Video
Medium
Animation
Subject

Mythology

Narrative
State
Pennsylvania
Year
2005
Status
Completed

Description

Paulina Hollers is an animated Appalachian folktale created with stop-motion rabbit bones, hand carved wooden angels with antique hinge wings and a hand-drawn hell just beneath the floor. The film follows a mother’s struggles after her son is killed by a passing car; unable to live with her own sadness, she commits suicide, joining her son in hell, and looking for a way to escape. Paulina Hollers draws on Green’s rural background and the history of American folk art and music, and he takes an empathic, unflinching view of grief and the relationship of myth to experience.

Brent Green

Brent Green is a self-taught animator and artist who lives and works in Cressona, PA. His work has been seen at the last four Sundance Film Festivals…
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Project Updates

2010: Paulina Hollers is featured in The Dissolve: SITE Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial Exhibition
2010: Paulina Hollers screens at Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of Creative Capital film festival
2006: Paulina Hollers is screened at the Wexner Center in Columbus OH
2006: Paulina Hollers premieres at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles
2007: Paulina Hollers is screened at Sundance Film Festival
2007: Paulina Hollers is screened at Threshold Artspace in Perthshire, Scotland
2007: Paulina Hollers is screened at Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis
2007: Paulina Hollers is screened as part of the group show entitled We Are Wizard at LAXART in Los Angeles