Monday, September 11, 2023
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Screening // 8 pm Performance
$20 Advance General Admission // $30 At The Door
All Ages
Ticket Purchases are Final and Non-Refundable
Winner: Best Short Feature - Berlin Short Film Festival
Winner: Audience Award - Berlin Short Film Festival
“Jon Ferguson has put his stamp on impressionistic and richly emotive original works that draw upon movement and sound to project non-linear narratives…” - Variety
"To see one of his shows is to see beauty, humanity, and surprise; to be engaged, touched, and to leave the theater more fully yourself.” - The Rake
This beautifully mind-bending evening marks the U.S. premiere of The Cartographer, a charming eco-comedic short feature film (38 minutes) by Jon Ferguson and Seth Bockley. Shot on location in Wales and led by a Minneapolis creative team, The Cartographer is a sweet and strange, funny and profound story about getting lost, letting go, and finding your way.
The film features scoring by Nathan Stocker (Hippo Campus), who will play a rare solo set following the screening.
Jon Ferguson (director/producer) is a writer, director and film & theater maker. He is the founder and Artistic Director of WLDRNSS, based in Minneapolis. Jon’s theatrical work has been profiled in American Theater Magazine, published by Samuel French and received critical recognition and numerous awards. He worked as a creative director at Screenology Production Company and Film School.
Seth Bockley (writer/producer) is a screenwriter, playwright and theater director specializing in literary adaptation, multimedia works, and script/story development. He teaches at the University of Chicago. The Cartographer is his first script for film.
Nathan Stocker (composer/musician) is a founding member of Minneapolis based band Hippo Campus. Amidst working and touring extensively with the group, he has released several albums under the moniker “brotherkenzie.” Combining elements of bedroom-pop and folk, his work as brotherkenzie grew beyond coyly dropping home-produced records and branched into film for the first time with The Cartographer, having been taught a clowning class in high school by director Jon Ferguson.