artWORKS
ABOUT
ArtWORKS is the second film created by the Farnsworth’s Julia’s Gallery teens. With lively colors and inventive techniques, the students took real-life issues, such as homelessness and school dropout, and imaginatively recast them in miniature with hand-crafted sets, including a Lego village, shadow puppets, and claymation figures. In a layered and poignant narrative, teens anonymously recount how art—dance, music, theater, the written word, or the visual arts—helped them through particularly challenging times in their lives. Students in the Julia’s Gallery for Young Artists program creatively visualized these narratives in ways that are both sensitive and magical, demonstrating how “art works” as a form of solace and inspiration.
Nicole is a multimedia artist exploring ways to incorporate her fine art photography training into various mediums, such as video, textile, architecture, and audio. She has come to favor video, as an evolving art form. She has collaborated with The Farnswroth Art Museum where she has taught filmmaking to local youth and continues to make self-produced art films. She utilizes emotion and experience to provoke the viewer to think differently about what they thought they already knew.
Daniel Quintanilla is a Maine-based documentary filmmaker who grew up in a multicultural home in Mexico. He has collaborated on NSF-supported projects documenting endangered languages in the state of Maine and Mexico. Daniel's short documentary, Not A Citizen, was featured at the 2018 Camden International Film Festival and was also part of the national film tour Stories Beyond Borders. In 2018, Daniel edited The Most Unknown, a feature length science documentary for VICE / MOTHERBOARD. In collaboration with Lewiston-based filmmaker Shuab Mahat, Daniel produced the virtual reality documentary, A Shared Space: Lewiston which was featured at the 2018 Camden International Film Festival and also won the audience award at the 2019 Bates Film Festival. Daniel’s most recent virtual reality film, Returning to Dadaab, follows Shuab Mahat as he returns to Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya to see his mother and siblings for the first time, 15 years after resettlement to the U.S.
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