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
TIMELINE
May 2019 - Initial Location Scouting
July 2019 - First teaser trailer created
February 2021 - Raised $1,500 through donations and the sale of screen printed posters
May 2021 - Two-week research trip
February 2022 - Second trailer created
May 2022 - Second fundraiser of editioned artist prints
June 2022 - Three-week shoot throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas
Fall 2022 - Begin edit
Spring / Summer 2023 - Final filming
Spring 2024 - Scheduled release
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.