A sci-fi fable about a lonely man, his robot companion, and a determined young woman hiking across a desert planet looking for a mythical lake. A story about the longing to connect in a modern world from a film-making duo named among 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2013 by “Filmmaker Magazine.”
Short Before the Feature: Eve // Brittany “B.Monét” Fennell :: What happens when the world is completely barren? Eve Shields will find a way to recreate human life even if it means risking her last egg.
Bio
Andrea Sisson is an interdisciplinary artist. She works in film, imagery, performance, writing, and conceptual art. She’s a J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR, a 2013 Filmmaker Magazine “25 New Face of Independent Film,” and has been shown at São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound and Palais de Tokyo Paris. In 2012, she co-directed the hybrid and experimental documentary I SEND YOU THIS PLACE — garnering praise from the New York Times. Sisson is currently attending MICA for an MFA in contemporary studies and fine art.
Pete Ohs is a swiss-army-knife of filmmaking: he writes, directs, shoots, and edits. His experimental documentary, I SEND YOU THIS PLACE, premiered in 2012 at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival — co-directed with partner, Andrea Sisson. In 2013, he was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” He is the winner of four regional Emmy Awards, and a published writer of comics.