The Shrimp
dir. Keith Wilson
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Synopsis:
The Shrimp is a lush visualist’s documentary that follows the life cycle of a shrimp along the marshes of Savannah, Georgia. Beautifully etched images and a canny audio soundtrack create a rich observational work about Southern culture, human folly and the interplay of natural and built environments.
Director:
Keith Wilson is a filmmaker and photographer based in San Francisco and Austin, Texas. His films including When The Light’s Red, Lesbian Grandmothers From Mars and The Shrimp have screened at the Berlin, London and South by Southwest Film Festivals as well as the National Gallery of Art. He is currently working on several documentary films; Bowl: A History, the story of one handmade bowl, and The Sea Cucumber, about the self-eviscerating marine animal prized in Japan for its viagra-like properties. A book based on his photography series Hyde Park Apartments was published by Publication Studio/Alone Company press in 2010 and an exhibit of the work at Austin’s SOFA Gallery was an ArtForum Critic’s pick. He is the photographer and art director for the forthcoming Apocalypse Cakes, a satirical cookbook to be published by Running Press in 2011.