Tree Begins Life, Indians Still Live Here
Beautiful scenery can't hide a dense, frightening theme, without the distraction of materialism. The wapiti seems to be saying, "What have you done?" No turning back.
Georg Koszulinski
Georg Koszulinski is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Seattle University and an award-winning filmmaker. With over forty films to his credits, Koszulinski has presented his films at hundreds of colleges, universities, and film festivals around the world. Notable screening spaces include the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Dallas Videofest, the Harvard Film Archive, the UK's National Media Museum, and the Images Festival in Toronto, among many others. HisFlorida Trilogy (2007-14) was widely programmed, earning numerous film festival awards and a Notable Video of the Year nomination from the American Library Association in 2008 (Cracker Crazy: Invisible Histories of the Sunshine State).
[bio courtesy of the filmmaker]
Filmography
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4th of July on Quileute Tribal Lands
In a strange twist of irony, Americans celebrate their independence on the sovereign lands of the Quileute People. An ambient soundscape coupled with the opening shot of an adjoining RV park work in unison to reveal an alien invasion on the shores of Quileute Tribal Lands.Watch Movie
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Contact Zones
"FRONTIER JOURNALS V interrogates the anthropological concept of 'cultural contact zones' (the physical spaces where two cultures meet) in order to observe the seemingly strange practices of the tourists and pedestrians that encounter totem poles in a variety of public spaces. At numerous sites...Watch Movie
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Tree Begins Life, Indians Still Live Here
A display of a fallen red cedar at Olympic National Park headquarters proclaims in 1349 "Indians live here." TREE BEGINS LIFE INDIANS STILL LIVE HERE produces a meditation on the territories of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest, and invites an alternative...Watch Movie
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A Map of the New World
"From 'the historical vantage point' where the Makah Tribe once observed early Europeans exploring the Strait of Juan de Fuca, I consider the drawing of a new kind of map (one that erases all traces of Eurocentric conceptions of land, boundary, and ownership). My analog images...Watch Movie
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Aztec Baldwin Collage
"In San Francisco's Mission District, on the Dia de los Muertos, I encounter the found footage filmmaker, Craig Baldwin. Over the past four decades, Baldwin's collage films have produced radical critiques of colonization in the Americas. Outside of Baldwin's subterranean film...Watch Movie
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Last Stop, Flamingo
LAST STOP, FLAMINGO explores early visions of Florida, from the early 20th-century Koreshan utopian community, founded by Cyrus Teed in the swamplands of Florida, to the world's largest planned subdivision (Golden Gate Estates) which projected a population of over 400,000...Watch Movie
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Mythologies of the Conquerors
The first entry in a series of personal essay videos that explores conceptions of the frontier. The first entry tells of strange encounters with animatronic Indians, performances of displaced ancient traditions and mass pilgrimages to sacred sights of power and spectacle.Watch Movie
Genres
- Animated / Cut-Out
- Avant-garde
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Sculpture
- Documentary / History
- Documentary / Political
- Documentary / Pseudoscience / Ufology
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Documentary / War
- Fantasy / Lost World
- Independent / Documentary
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Non-Narrative
Recent Reviews
Last Stop, Flamingo
Not terrible, but a bit self-indulgent. Not a mature film.
Antipodes Rising
I liked it. Hypnoptic
Last Stop, Flamingo
Nice cinematography, animation. Good story GOP Capitalist greed and profit vs ecology.
Antipodes Rising
For a very short film with very little happening Antipodes Rising is shockingly compelling. Bare bones superimposition.