Painting the Place Between is a one-hour feature documentary about four contemporary painters working with one subject we all have in common: the land. The film acknowledges our human desire to find meaningful connections to the world around us. From the earliest cave paintings, humans seek to record and express those individual and collective experiences. In its simplest form, the film documents how four different painters, through the self-willed constraint of painting, unlock the discovery of unpredictable, intense, intuitive truth. The audience follows the artists as they work through the harsh extremes of the seasons, adapting to weather challenges and dealing with the emotional flux they create. Moments of honesty are captured that prompt the artists, as well as the audience, to wonder whether we have shaped the land or has the land shaped us. Ultimately, all of these dynamic experiences culminate in four finished works, taking something so robust and transforming it into something finite and two-dimensional. This film showcases this creative process revealing a dimension of the art that typically is invisible.
