This was my senior thesis film at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.  I graduated in 1999 with a degree in Cinema and Photography.  I'm proud to say that this, unlike many student films, is not about suicide.  The story follows Nathan, a young man from the country now living in the city, as he returns home to visit his parents and confront what was, for him, a traumatic childhood event.

This film was done for an optical printing independent study with one of my professors, Mike Covell, in Carbondale around the fall of 1998.  I was lucky enough to have Charles Swedlund as a professor for a photography class the semester prior and he shared with the class some of his own film work.  The film, called Flowing Waters if I recall correctly, was done in the tricolor technique.  His film inspired me to take this technique a step further.