Title
Presented
Story
An evening walk gives one man more than he bargained for.
Produced for the 2010 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Book Odds.
Producer
Liz Bustamante studied music and technology in the Sonic Arts program at City College, NY. Her video for Poem Rocket's 'Box' was shown at several film festivals, nominated for Best Editing and awarded Best Video at the International Festival of Cinema and Technology (2003). Bustamante was awarded an Irani Fellowship for a site installation piece examining the phenomenon of popular standards in contemporary music. She is a drummer and engineer currently living in Chicago.
Karen Gollrad just graduated with a post B.A. from Columbia College in radio broadcasting. Her passionate pursuits of storytelling through acting and music led her to add audio production to her repertoire. She won second place for “Food Glorious Food” in the 2010 Senior Radio Awards at Columbia in the documentary category. Post graduation, Karen is enjoying herself immensely this summer working on projects such as Book Odds despite unemployment.
Extra
In an uncanny coincidence, Liz Bustamante & Karen Gollrad have found themselves inhabiting the same cities at the same times. Introduced in Bloomington, Indiana, they moved to and through Chicago, Brooklyn, and Manhattan making art and music. (They were surprised to find that they both lived at 103rd Street on opposite sides of Central Park!) Now back in Chicago, Bustamante & Gollrad take advantage of their proximity to collaborate on an unspoken tale.
Book Odds invited anyone/everyone to produce a short audio work inspired by (and named after) song titles from The Books' record The Way Out, and including samples from their library of musical bits, strange phrases and sonic doodads. Read more about and listen to other Book Odds submissions.
To learn more about Karen Gollrad check out her website.
See photography by Liz Bustamante.