A haunting visual poem inspired by the ancient Japanese art of repair, set in a sprawling scrap yard.
Director’s Statement
Kintsugi Angel is a film born from the urgent need to ‘repair.’ It is the result of a years-long collaboration between myself and multi-media artist Erika Senft Miller. When I first saw Erika’s provocative costume art, I felt that it communicated a timeless human sensation; feeling like an alien in our own broken world. This inspired me to write a loose script that creates a science fiction atmosphere. Our creative journey lead us to stage a performance using her costume.
When it came time to craft the film, I was inspired by the practice of Kinstugi, the Japanese art of repair, which is used to fix broken pottery.
Bios
Lukas Huffman is an award-winning writer and director based in Vermont. Huffman’s narrative feature film, WHEN THE OCEAN MET THE SKY (2016), won more than a dozen awards worldwide and was selected for the Toronto International Film Festival Circuit. He hasbeen commissioned to create films for networks and organizations such as The New York Times, Vice Media, ESPN, The Boston Globe, The National Wildlife Federation, and more. Huffman’s experimental films push the boundaries of storytelling formats and become visual poems.
Erika Senft Miller is a multi-sensory artist who orchestrates large-scale collaborative, community-based, site-specific productions. Senft Miller’s most recent work,The Net Works, a multi-sensory installation that invited visitors intothe tender human moments at the heart of Gloucester’s fishing community, was created in collaboration with and supported by artists and members in the Gloucester fishing community, Manship Artist Residency, New England Foundation for the Arts, The VermontArts Council, The Bruce J. Anderson Foundation, Maritime Gloucester, and Awesome Gloucester. Her sculptures, drawings, prints and paintings have been exhibited and sold throughout Vermont, and Massachusetts.
Artistic Director & Costume Art: Erika Senft Miller
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
