A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHASING STORMS is a feature-length experimental documentary exploring the Southern American plains through its weather. Combining portraiture, travelogue, and landscape vignettes, A BRIEF HISTORY searches in hybrid essayistic form to reveal the complexities of a region continuously rewritten through migration, colonization, and increasingly severe weather phenomena.
Expected release: Spring 2024
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Curtis Miller is an artist and educator from Chicago, IL. His films have screened internationally at the Centre for Contemporary Arts - Glasgow, EXIS - Seoul, Fracto - Berlin, Montreal Underground Film Festival, and Alchemy Film and Video - Hawick, UK, as well as domestically at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, ICDOCS, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, the Hyde Park Arts Center - Chicago, Indiana University - Bloomington, Gallery 400 - Chicago, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid - Chicago.