Creative Capital

Braden King HERE

Discipline
Film/Video
Medium
Experimental
Subject

Environment

Science

Technology
State
New York
Year
2005
Status
Touring

Description

HERE is a landscape-obsessed road movie chronicling a brief romantic relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Ben Foster) and an expatriate Armenian art photographer (Lubna Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel together into uncharted territory. A literal and metaphoric meditation on landscape, time, place and orientation itself, the plot of the film is structured around a series of extra-narrative “cinema maps”—brief cinematic illustrations of lyrical explorer myths and stories. Each “cinema map” is commissioned from a different, established experimental filmmaker who both breaks up and feeds into the overall narrative of the work.

Braden King

Braden King is a filmmaker and artist whose credits include full-length features and documentaries, short films, gallery and museum installations, an…
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Project Updates

2011: HERE screens in major festivals, including the London Film Festival, Milan Film Festival, Palo Alto Film Festval, ARPA International Film Festival in Los Angeles and Cinema Arts Festival Houston
2011: HERE is picked up for distribution by Strand Releasing
2011: HERE wins the C.I.C.A.E. (International Confederation of Art House Cinemas) Prize at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival
2011: HERE screens at the Berlin Film Festival
2011: HERE premieres in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival and the multimedia HERE [ THE STORY SLEEPS ] is presented in the New Frontier program
2010: The multimedia HERE [ THE STORY SLEEPS ] is presented at MoMA in conjunction with Creative Capital film exhibition
2008: Early iteration of Here screens at Sundance Film Festival and receives Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Award
2007: Photographs of research and planning stages of Here are exhibited at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art