HIGH COUNTRY
The short film A FRAGMENTED QUARANTINE DREAM will play before the feature and a recorded talkback with director Conor Hagen will follow the feature.
Free Live Audience Q&A
Join us for a free audience Q&A with HIGH COUNTRY director Conor Hagen moderated by Artistic & Programming Director Michael Brody on Saturday October 3 at 7 PM MST
THE LAST GREAT MOUNTAIN TOWN
Conor is a native of Crested Butte, Colorado and grew up in New Mexico. He graduated with a B.A. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Vermont before moving to New York City to work alongside his mentor, Albert Maysles. He’s had multiple films screen at various festivals across the United States. He is currently working on a number of different music videos and other new projects. Conor considers HIGH COUNTRY, a documentary about his hometown, to be a very personal passion project; he has been working on it for over five years. Conor currently lives in Sonoma, California.
A FRAGMENTED QUARANTINE DREAM
A FRAGMENTED QUARANTINE DREAM offers a glimpse of a rural Colorado town during Covid-19 quarantine March 2020. This was one night in the life of my quarantine in a small town nestled in mountains when every single business was closed and the streets sat empty. This was filmed at the very beginning stages of quarantine when I had the bittersweet feeling of delight and a fantastical sense of disbelief in an empty town.
There are two versions of this piece filmed on the same night on a full moon on Elk Avenue in Crested Butte. This is the light, magical ""feel-good"" perspective that suspends reality and the weight of the circumstances at hand.
Part 2: Warped: Covid Time explores the shadow side of the same exact time period of the global pandemic expressing the energy of anxiety, fear, masks and business closures.
Inspired by the light of the full moon on empty streets, Collaborator/Cinematographer Trevor Main captured these improvised, spontaneous movement pieces created on site, during a very specific time and place in Crested Butte's history of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In addition to playing as a part of Narrative Shorts Program 1, A FRAGMENTED QUARANTINE DREAM will play in front of HIGH COUNTRY and OUT LOUD.
Director Bio
Filmmaker Sasha Chudacoff used the Covid-19 lockdown to tackle the damage plastics do to our planet in the best way she can: through dance.
- Year2020
- Runtime2 minutes
- CountryUSA
- DirectorSasha Chudacoff
HIGH COUNTRY
The short film A FRAGMENTED QUARANTINE DREAM will play before the feature and a recorded talkback with director Conor Hagen will follow the feature.
Free Live Audience Q&A
Join us for a free audience Q&A with HIGH COUNTRY director Conor Hagen moderated by Artistic & Programming Director Michael Brody on Saturday October 3 at 7 PM MST
THE LAST GREAT MOUNTAIN TOWN
Conor is a native of Crested Butte, Colorado and grew up in New Mexico. He graduated with a B.A. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Vermont before moving to New York City to work alongside his mentor, Albert Maysles. He’s had multiple films screen at various festivals across the United States. He is currently working on a number of different music videos and other new projects. Conor considers HIGH COUNTRY, a documentary about his hometown, to be a very personal passion project; he has been working on it for over five years. Conor currently lives in Sonoma, California.
A FRAGMENTED QUARANTINE DREAM
A FRAGMENTED QUARANTINE DREAM offers a glimpse of a rural Colorado town during Covid-19 quarantine March 2020. This was one night in the life of my quarantine in a small town nestled in mountains when every single business was closed and the streets sat empty. This was filmed at the very beginning stages of quarantine when I had the bittersweet feeling of delight and a fantastical sense of disbelief in an empty town.
There are two versions of this piece filmed on the same night on a full moon on Elk Avenue in Crested Butte. This is the light, magical ""feel-good"" perspective that suspends reality and the weight of the circumstances at hand.
Part 2: Warped: Covid Time explores the shadow side of the same exact time period of the global pandemic expressing the energy of anxiety, fear, masks and business closures.
Inspired by the light of the full moon on empty streets, Collaborator/Cinematographer Trevor Main captured these improvised, spontaneous movement pieces created on site, during a very specific time and place in Crested Butte's history of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In addition to playing as a part of Narrative Shorts Program 1, A FRAGMENTED QUARANTINE DREAM will play in front of HIGH COUNTRY and OUT LOUD.
Director Bio
Filmmaker Sasha Chudacoff used the Covid-19 lockdown to tackle the damage plastics do to our planet in the best way she can: through dance.
- Year2020
- Runtime2 minutes
- CountryUSA
- DirectorSasha Chudacoff