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At the Edge of the World Automorphosis
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92 minutes a73 2008 a73 USA/Antarctica a73 In Competition 77 minutes a73 2008 a73 USA a73 In Competition
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Director: Dan Stone a73 Executive Producers: Craig Stone, Dan Stone a73 Producers: Patrick Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor/Narrator: Harrod Blank a73 Principal Cast:
Gambuti, Jr., Jeff Gibbs a73 Cinematographers: Danny Fernandez, Tim Gorski, Simeon Harrod Blank, Howard Davis, Uri Geller, Leonard Knight a73 automorphosis.com
Houtman, Jon Kane, James Joyner, Mathiew Mauverney, Rip Odebralski a73 Editors: Kurt
Engfehr, Patrick Gambuti Jr., Pat Kelleher a73 Music/Composers: Jeff Gibbs, Tierro Lee, Xavier
What if you could morph your car into a mobile work of art, and
Rudd a73 Principal Cast: Alex Cornelissen, Paul Watson a73 whalecampaign.org
drive it down the road for all to see? What would it look like?
ies
What would the world think of you? How would you be
This real-life “David vs. Goliath” adventure follows the
changed?
controversial Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in its
Antarctic Campaign against illegal whaling. Set against the
Look into the minds and hearts of a delightful collection of
beauty of the remote Ross Sea, an international crew comes
eccentrics, visionaries, and just plain folks who have
together on two ships in an effort to find and stop a Japanese
transformed their autos into artworks. On a humorous and
whaling fleet. These are ordinary people in extraordinary
touching journey, we discover what drives the creative process
circumstances—“real people taking real risks for real issues”.
for these unconventional characters. As different from one
another as the creations they drive, they share the intensity of
The filmmakers have incredible access; from a Zodiac lost at
their passion to take a dream on the road and live the
sea to a small ship trying to thwart a huge whaling vessel. The
consequences of being individuals of the most singular sort on 19
unfolding saga turns into a search and rescue story with twists
our increasingly homogeneous highways. Features additional
no scriptwriter could invent: intriguing personalities risking
photography by 2007 AIFF Artistic Achievement Award
everything in a compelling action/adventure story. The tensions
Winner Les Blank.
build as this uniquely beautiful and dangerous corner of the
world becomes a battleground for the most fundamental
Join filmmaker/artist/author Harrod Blank and his photographs
questions of ends and means, injustice and indifference, laws
from the book Art Cars. Blank’s interactive Camera Van will
and politics and life and death.
be on display in the show, the film and on the street! First
Friday Art Walk: Friday 4/3, 5–8p and through the weekend;
Sponsor: Chris, Robin, Kelly and Kimberly Thompson
Houston’s Custom Framing and Fine Art, 270 E. Main.
Dan Stone
Sponsor: Jim Teece
Director’s Statement
Harrod Blank
For 46 volunteers on two ships determined
Director’s Statement
to shut down an illegal whaling fleet in
Antarctic waters, the consequences are
In 1992 I went on tour with Wild Wheels,
very real. With one ship unable to chase
taking it with my art car to 50 theaters. A
down the whaling fleet, with their second
lot of art car people would show up at the
ship unsafe in icy conditions and with no
screenings with their cars. Their art cars
country willing to support their efforts, the situation becomes
were elaborate and the characters outlandish. Initially I didn’t
increasingly desperate. This particular Sea Shepherd campaign
want to make another documentary due to the dismal financial
was arguably “the perfect combination of imperfections” and
return and hard work, but after three years of meeting these
the chances taken were astonishingly reckless and admirable.
new art car people, I just had to do another film.
In an age when comic-book superheroes seem to dominate the
As I look at the film I know that I gave it all I had and that in
screen, there is something very special about ordinary people
itself is satisfying. It was a hell of a mountain to climb. The
willing to take extraordinary risks for the greater good. This film
experience of shooting the film and spending time with all
puts you in the middle of the action as the crew unleashes an
these eccentric characters was fun—it was like a a dream—
arsenal of bizarre and brilliant tactics in this stunningly
surreal, wacky and random. I can’t complain, it’s been a good
beautiful and uniquely treacherous corner of the world.
experience, a good life.
Filmography: Directorial Debut
Filmography: Driving The Dream, In The Land of The Owl Turds, Wild Wheels
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