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186_Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017)

  • The Mini Microcinema 1329 Main Street Cincinnati, OH, 45202 United States (map)

1st Screening - Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM

2nd Screening - Doors at 9:30 PM, Screening at 10:00 PM
@ The Mini - 1329 Main St.

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017)

An unlikely trio - a lonely man, his robot-head companion, and a determined young woman - team up to navigate the harsh desert in search of a mythical lake that could be their key to survival on an otherwise barren planet.

Winner of the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award at the 2017 LA Film Festival

Starring Julia Garner & Joseph Cross

Written & Directed by Pete Ohs

Co-Directed by Andrea Sisson

Distributed by The Orchard

FREE with $5 suggested donation

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PETE OHS is a swiss-army-knife of filmmaking; he writes, directs, shoots, and edits. His debut feature, 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. He is also an Ohio native and began his career in video production in Cincinnati.

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 has an undergraduate degree in conceptual fashion design and will be entering graduate school for an MFA in contemporary studies and fine art at MICA. She is also a Cincinnati native.

 

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