Process. Is. Product.

We’ve been at it for a few years!

We’ve scouted, researched, written, fundraised, scheduled, shot, edited, fundraised some more, shot some more, edited some more, fundrasied again… and we’re still going! From our first interview with Mary in 2022, to our sweaty summer month of capturing the interviews and processes of our featured artists in 2024… we’ve accumulated over 40 hours of footage! Equally as impressive is how many connections and friendships we’ve forged along the way.

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Behind the Scenes photos by Christine Rucker

Other photos by Cat and zap

When we say

“process is product”

we mean:

… how our art is made is as important as the final piece. Through asking both broad and specific questions and engaging in vital conversations not only with each other but with members of our project at every stage, from ideation to completion and beyond, our work, proudly, can be described, and has been, as “very aware of itself”.  We are not only investigators, but deep researchers, and we believe this gathering of information shines through as its own layer in our work.  We strive to create art that results in further conversation, that can live beyond a screen, gallery wall, or space.  Part of the art is how it exists and grows for years to come. Many people say, “a work is never really finished.”  This has a celebratory meaning for us.  To us, this “never finished” is the way in which the work changes on its own.  In a way, we create work to be able to evolve even when our hands are finished touching it, through what the people and community chooses to do with it, hopefully, inspiring positive change.

- your directors, zap + cat

Land Acknowledgement.

We acknowledge the traditional, ancestral, & presently unceded territory of the Indigenous Peoples on which we are creating this film & from which we are still learning: 

Osage, Myaamia, Shawandassee Tula, Kaskaskia, Hopewell Culture, Adena Culture, Cheraw, Catawba, Occaneechi, Tutelo, & Keyauwe