Candace Thompson

약력

Candace Thompson is a media maker and land steward fascinated by the feedback loops of ecology, economics, culture, history, media, and daily human interaction. They make video, audio, web, and social practice projects that examine and challenge the truths we purportedly hold to be self-evident. Perhaps they aren’t so self-evident after all. Thompson's current projects search for healing and agency in the face of opaque profit systems. This includes human relationship(s) with the (un)natural world vis a vis local food webs, phone addiction and the corporate surveillance state, and rituals of healing that locate personal and intergenerational trauma as somatic heirlooms. Recent institutional relationships include More Art, Residency Unlimited, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, NYFA, the Urban Soil Institute, Cycle X, Burlington City Arts, Wave Hill, and Swale House. As a freelance video producer and editor they have made music videos, documentaries and experimental narratives. Thompson's short non-fiction films, The Next Epoch Seed Library and Body Map have screened at various US festivals. As a performer they have worked in theatre, voiceover, and television, most notably on HBO's High Maintenance and with artist Pablo Helguera at BAM and the Guggenheim. They hold an MFA in Integrated Media Art from Hunter College and are the Park Manager of Stuy Cove Park, a 2 acre public food forest in lower Manhattan.

참여 작품

Laura Gets a Cat
Heidi
Laura, an unemployed writer in New York City, tries to juggle an unexciting boyfriend, an affair with a performance artist, and a vivid imaginary life.
Defining Hope
Editor
We aren't dying the way we used to. We have ventilators, dialysis machines, ICUs-technologies that can "fix" us and keep our bodies alive-which have radically changed how we make medical decisions. In our death-denying culture, no matter how sick we get, there is always "hope." Defining Hope tells the story of patients dealing with life-threatening illness as they move between ICUs, operating rooms, hospice care and home. Diane is a nurse caring for end-stage cancer patients when she is diagnosed with ovarian cancer herself. 23-year-old Alena undergoes a risky brain surgery that destroys her short-term memory. 95-year-old Berthold lives with his elderly wife who struggles to honor his wish of dying peacefully at home. Defining Hope follows these patients and others- and the nurses that guide them along the way- as they face death, embrace hope, and ultimately redefine what makes life worth living.
The American Nurse
Associate Producer
THE AMERICAN NURSE is a heart-warming film that explores some of the biggest issues facing America - aging, war, poverty, prisons - through the work and lives of nurses. It is an examination of real people that will change how we think about nurses and how we wrestle with the challenges of healing America. THE AMERICAN NURSE is an important contribution to America's ongoing conversation about what it means to care. The film follows the paths of five nurses in various practice specialties including Jason Short as he drives up a rugged creek to reach a home-bound cancer patient in Appalachia. Tonia Faust, who runs a prison hospice program where inmates serving life sentences care for their fellow inmates as they're dying. Naomi Cross, as she coaches an ovarian cancer survivor through the Caesarean delivery of her son. Sister Stephen, a nun who runs a nursing home filled with goats, sheep, llamas and chickens, where the entire nursing staff comes together to sing for a dying resident.
고스트 타운
Harley Guy's Old Lady
치과의사 버트램 핑커스는 갑작스러운 죽음을 맞이했다가 7분 후에 기적적으로 되살아난다. 이후 그에게 놀라운 능력이 생기는데 바로 죽은 사람을 볼 수 있게 된 것이다. 그가 만난 영혼 중 프랭크 헐리히는 핑커스에게 집요하게 달라붙으며 자신의 아내였던 구웬의 재혼을 방해해 달라고 요구한다. 이러한 상황은 핑커스를 예측치 못한 삼각관계로 몰아넣는데…
Brushfires
Melissa
When a shy girl, secretly in love with her rocker-grrl housemate, meets an unbalanced heiress on the run, anything could (and does) happen in BRUSHFIRES, the latest production from Chicago-based film group Split Pillow. As the three women negotiate the dangerous relationships among them, the seven women directors weave a sensual tale of suspense. Drawing inspiration from the poem by Jessica Wilbur and the surrealist parlour game, The Exquisite Corpse, each director selected a word or phrase on which to base her segment, and the seven chapters of the film bear their individual marks. This impressive experiment in filmmaking emerges as a sensitive tale of young desire, loss, and love's confusion.