Recent Credits
QUEER GENIUS (DOC), AFTER THE DATE (SHORT) , CROOKED & NARROW (FEATURE), AMISH GRACE (TV) , THE CONTENDERS: 16 for 16 (TV), TALKING LGBTQ PROGRESS AT THE DNC 2016 (TV), FACEBOOK ADS: TOY MARKET (WEB), SARA AND DENNIS (SHORT)
DP Reel 2016 from Paul Hinson on Vimeo.
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Artist Statement
Growing up in the rural hills and hollows of eastern Appalachia, I came to know landscape as intimate, enclosing and sometimes isolating. I spent my adolescence among spiritual idealists and seekers who my family joined to build an intentional community in the woods. The result is a complicated, urgent relationship to place that finds its way as an obsession into my films.
After graduating college, like many who leave the South to find space for themselves and their work, I moved north to a city. So far this work has been rooted in the landscape of the east coast: dense cities, pastoral farms, wooded hills.
My practice is place-specific and formally fluid. Rather than searching for the “essence” of a place, it involves the physical, emotional, spiritual, and visual shape of our relating to our land.
Work
JEFFERSON, JULY FOURTH (2017)
A quiet portrait of the ritual space between land and community deep in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
- Official Selection // Montreal Underground Film Festival // 2017
WINTER, WISSAHICKON WOODS (2016)
Experimental short on 16mm with live score performance.
- Official Selection // 20/92 Icebox Philadelphia // 2016
LAUREL RUN ROAD (2015)
Short, entirely improvised over three days in the Blue Ridge mountains of southwest Virginia.
- Official Selection // New Filmmakers New York // Anthology Film Archives // 2016
- Official Selection // Y’allywood Film Festival // 2015
- Official Selection // Philadelphia Film Showcase // 2016
- Screening // Storyville at Scribe Video Center // 2016
- Screening // Walking October Mountain // Mechanical Eye Microcinema // 2015
- Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association Completion Grant
IF THESE WERE SILENT (2013)
Short, optically printed experimental film.
- Official Selection // Montréal Underground Film Festival // 2014
- Official Selection // Haverhill Experimental Film Festival // 2014
- Official Selection // Big Muddy Film Festival // 2014
- Official Selection // London and Portugal Underground Film Festival // 2013
YELLOW AND BLUE (2012)
Short, optically printed 16mm experimental film.
- Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association Completion Grant
- Official Selection // Shooting Wall Film Festival // 2014
- Official Selection // London and Portugal Underground Film Festival // 2013