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"The Hoodoo Artist" is a short film, shot in digital video, made by a group of friends in Montana. The original short story, below, was written by Lise McClendon, and adapted for the screen by Robin Edmiston, Shari Nault-Pullar, Matija Christine Pierce, and Lise. The black-and-white film, reminiscent of an old "Twilight Zone" episode, was directed by Lise and stars Pierce as a lonely sculptress in the Wyoming desert, lost and obsessed with the wind-shaped rocks called hoodoos. I call it a bit of prairie noir. The story below differs from the finished script, and only a portion is shown here. Email Lise to read more.
The film was a short film winner at the 1999 Telluride Indiefest. Festival director Michael Carr called the film, "Mysterious, very thought-provoking, and extremely well-crafted! The musical backdrop was simply outstanding." The writers also won best teleplay from the Hometown Video Festival in 1999 and a certificate of merit from the 2000 Rochester International Film Festival. |
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THE HOODOO ARTIST
a short story
by Lise McClendon
copyright 1996, all rights reserved
The hoodoo artist visited Marlene Chastain's place every day. Weaving his way down the dry sagelands, down dry, fish-less streambeds, around the hope-scattered earth, he came from the west, or the north. Any direction suited him fine, and the paint on Marlene's clapboard farmhouse proved that, pitted and worn, its fine green glow, once fresh as spring grass, gone in two years. The hoodoo artist rattled the storm windows at night, blinded cattle, drifted alkali over the dirt road to Lost Cabin, Wyoming.
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