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Film still, Last Stop, Flamingo (2014)

SPRING 2014 
The final film of the Florida trilogy, Last Stop, Flamingo, was awarded Best Feature Film at the 8th Annual Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, South Carolina.  The film also received Best Documentary honors at the 26th Annual U.S. Super 8 Film & Video Festival. Here's a recent Film Threat review, and an interview by WGCU's John Davis with filmmaker Georg Koszulinski. 

Selections from the first three entries of Frontier Journals--an ongoing series of short video essays exploring conceptions of the American frontier--will screen at this year's Iowa City Documentary Film Festival, VCU's Ramstock Film Festival, and the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival held in NYC this fall.

Film stills, Frontier Journals 01: Mythologies of the Conquerors and Frontier Journals 03: Aztec Baldwin Collage (2014)

WINTER 2014
Last Stop, Flamingo--the final film of the Florida trilogy--will have its world premiere at the U.S. Super 8 Film & Video Festival, held on the campus of Rutgers University. The experimental 16mm film essay, Message from my Centenarian, is now available through The Journal of Short Film, released on volume 31 of its quarterly DVD release. 

Film stills, Message from my Centenarian (2014)

FALL 2013
Production was completed on The Dispossessed. Post-production
begins this fall in Seattle, WA. The project documents various forms of cultural resistance in the face of a long history of colonial and post-colonial oppression.
At the center of this investigation are rural Vodou practices--a syncretic religious
system which yields a radical understanding of human relations to the physical and metaphysical realms. It is through this lens that a deeper understanding of the
complex history of social injustices in Haiti can be better understood.

Photo: Pierrevy Polete

The Houngan (Vodou spiritual leader) Extanta Aolee leads his followers into a cave in the mountains of Duchity. Historically, these remote caves were the dwelling places of slaves escaping French plantations. It is said the loa (spirits) reside in every cave in Haiti. The houngan Extanta Aolee leads a ceremony to summon the loa, Mase Mari, within the sacred cave.

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

Frankenstein Revisited & Message from my Centenarian screen at Other Cinema in San Francisco. Both films, comprised almost entirely of found 16mm footage, will include live soundscape performance. Read Synopses. The hand-made cameraless 16mm films Warships & Beats per Minute screen at TIE's Alternative Measures in Boulder, CO.

Film stills, Frankenstein Revisited (2013)

WINTER 2013

Scott Camil Will Not Die was awarded Best Documentary at the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival, Des Moines, IA. The experimental film from the future, Message from my Centenarian, was presented at the Works-in-Progress Festival, Iowa City, IA. The Search for Norumbega screened most recently at the Alchemy Festival of the Moving Image, Scottish Borders, UK. Last Stop, Flamingo nears completion, with a premiere screening TBA. The found footage adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Frankenstein Revisited, screens at the University of Florida's annual Film Studies Conference, Film & Philosophy: Corpus/Bodies.

SPRING 2012

The Search for Norumbega and America, America (2012) to premiere at the Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, SC.

The Search for Norumbega (2012; 16mm; 19:00; Georg Koszulinski)
On the earliest European maps of North America, the unexplored region of present-day Maine was often labeled “Norumbega.” The fabled land was said to be hidden within this vast wilderness, and numerous cartographies placed Norumbega along Maine’s Penobscot River. But did Norumbega ever actually exist, or was it simply a European projection onto an unknown North American landscape—the desire to imagine a space divorced from the problems of European history? If Norumbega was anything more than a mythologized landscape, the limits of knowledge fail to prove its existence. Perhaps the poetic capabilities of the moving image will manifest an alternative future geography—a Norumbega that exists beyond the limits of history, cartography, and nationality.


SCOTT CAMIL WILL NOT DIE

IMMOKALEE U.S.A. & CRACKER CRAZY TELEVISION PREMIERE

The Documentary Channel and Substream Films have partnered to bring Cracker Crazy: Invisibile Histories of the Sunshine State and Immokalee U.S.A. to television audiences nationwide.  The July 13th television premiere will bring Georg Koszulinski's  documentaries to over 21 million homes. 

 

June 1, 2014 Last Stop, Flamingo screens at the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill, MA May 1-4, 2014 Last Stop, Flamingo screens at the Sunscreen Film Festival, Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL

April 27, 2014 Frontier Journals 03:Aztec Baldwin Collage  screens at the Ramstock VCU Film Festival,  Richmond, VA April 17-19, 2014 Frontier Journals 01 & 03 screen at the Iowa City Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, IA

April 18, 2014 Last Stop, Flamingo screens at the Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia, SC

March 27, 2014 Last Stop, Flamingo screens at the College English Association's 48th Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD March 20, 2014 Fragments from an Endless War screens at The Studio Two Three Film & Video Series Richmond, VA

February 16, 2014 Last Stop, Flamingo screens at the U.S Super 8 Film & Video Festival, Rutgers, NJ

February 16, 2014 Scott Camil Will Not Die screens at the Cinema Verde Film Festival, Gainesville, FL

November 20-24, 2013 Warships & Beats per Minute screen at the TIE Experimental Cinema Exposition, Alternative Measures Colorado Springs, CO

October 26, 2013 Frankenstein Revisited & Message from my Centenarian screen at Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA

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