Indurate Heart

“Indurate Heart,” a film poem based on Jack's twitter poem, laments the hard truth that having known a great love is both a model and an obstacle once that love is lost.

  • Jack Cochran
    Director
  • Pamela Falkenberg
    Director
  • Jack Cochran
    Writer
  • Pamela Falkenberg
    Producer
  • Jack Cochran
    Editing and sound design
  • Pamela Falkenberg
    Cinematography
  • Pamela Falkenberg
    Production Design
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    1 minute
  • Completion Date:
    February 26, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 6th CYCLOP Video Poetry Film Festival
    Kiev
    Ukraine
    November 26, 2017
    World Premiere
    Official selection
  • 6th International Video Poetry Festival
    Athens
    Greece
    January 19, 2018
    European Premiere
    Official Selection
  • III Muestra de Video Arte Faenza
    Bogoa
    Colombia
    May 27, 2020
    South American Premiere
    Official selection
  • Spark Micro Short Film Fest
    Online
    United States
    September 2, 2023
    U.S. premiere
    Official selection
Director Biography - Jack Cochran, Pamela Falkenberg

Jack's bio:
Jack is an independent filmmaker who has produced, directed, or shot a variety of experimental and personal projects. As a DP he has extensive experience shooting commercials, independent features, and documentaries. His varied commercial client list includes BMW, Ford, Nissan, Fujifilm, Iomega, Corum Watches, and Forte Hotels. His features and documentaries have shown at the Sundance, Raindance, Teluride, Tribeca, Edinburgh, Chicago, Houston, and Taos film Festivals, winning several honors. His commercials and documentaries have won Silver Lions from Cannes, a BAFTA (British Academy Award), Peabody Awards, and Cable Aces. Jack was trained at the University of Iowa Creative Writers Workshop as well as the University of Iowa film studies program. Some notable credits: Director of Photography on Brian Griffin's Claustrofoamia, Cinematography for Antony Thomas’ Tank Man, Director/Cinematographer of vientonocturno, and Cinematographer of Ramin Niami’s feature film Paris. Since Jack has been writing poetry ever since he attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop, his newest endeavor is working with partner Pam Falkenberg to turn some of his short poems into films.

Pam's bio:
Pam is an independent filmmaker who received her PhD from the University of Iowa and taught at Northern Illinois University, St.Mary's College, and the University of Notre Dame. She directed the largest student film society in the US while she was at the University of Iowa, and also ran films series for the Snite Museum of Art in South Bend, IN. Her experimental film with Dan Curry, Open Territory, received an individual filmmaker grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the Center for New Television and the Indiana Arts Council. OT was screened at numerous film festivals, including the AFI Video Festival, and was nominated for a regional Emmy. Her other films include museum installations, scholarly/academic hybrid works shown at film conferences, and a documentary commissioned by the Peace Institute at the University of Notre Dame.

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Director Statement

Jack Cochran and Pam Falkenberg are making personal films together again under the name Outlier Moving Pictures. They hope their new films will be worthy of the name -- avoiding the usual patterns and approaching their subject matter from the margins (which sounds better than saying that as filmmakers they're oddballs and cranks). Pam and Jack met in graduate school and made films together when they were young. Jack went on to become a professional cinematographer working out of LA and London, while Pam stayed in the Midwest, where she was a college professor and independent filmmaker before dropping out to work in visual display. Their first film together is based on Jack's short poems. Next is a film about the North Dakota landscape and Teddy Roosevelt. Along with that, a series of shorts about photo opportunities and roadside attractions in Texas. Next, some short film poems (twitter poems), which are constrained by Twitter's 140 character limit. Then, who knows?