Experiencing Interruptions?

Chapter Three: In Which The Past Becomes The Future, But Only In The Best Possible Way

What will Vermont look like in the future? What should it look like?

Chapter Three features the idyllic agricultural landscape of a Vermont farm. But this is not just any Vermont farm: it is the Jenne Farm in Reading, reportedly the most photographed farm in a heavily photographed state.

The Jenne Farm has been featured on magazine covers, on posters, postcards, and calendars, and provided the setting for scenes from major motion pictures as well. It has it's own Wikipedia page. What about the Jenne Farm especially speaks to us as representing an ideal Vermont?

In imagining a fantastical future for this state, Chapter Three looks to the past. The imagery is mirrored, creating an infinite loop, or a Rorschach blot. Half the image is hued purple; in many traditions the color purple is used as symbolic of the future, or dreams.

History is cyclical, but inevitably with a twist. What does it mean to dream of the future? Can we return to the past without repeating it?

  • Stephen Schaub
    Director
    A Wonderful Plague, Each One A Soul, The Home Of My Choice, Rokeby, There Are Animals In The Forests, Walking Makes You Think Differently
  • Eve O. Schaub
    Writer
    A Wonderful Plague, Each One A Soul, The Home Of My Choice, Rokeby, There Are Animals In The Forests, Walking Makes You Think Differently
  • EveNSteve Artists
    Producer
    A Wonderful Plague, Each One A Soul, The Home Of My Choice, Rokeby, There Are Animals In The Forests, Walking Makes You Think Differently
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    art house, experimental, short, fiction, future, utopia, vermont
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 52 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 6, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, Film 120 BW, Scan
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Best Shorts Competition
    La Jolla
    United States
    June 15, 2021
    WINNER EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Director Biography - Stephen Schaub

Stephen Schaub is an artist and a Marine Corps Veteran who served in Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm and a recipient of the Navy Achievement Medal. After receiving his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, he founded FigitalRevolution.com, a groundbreaking website that between 2005 and 2020 has advocated for the use of film as well as the merging of digital and traditional photographic techniques. He has curated shows focusing on contemporary photographic practice, published two collections of his work (Through A Glass Darkly, 1999, and A Sense of Place, 2004) and is well respected in the industry as a leader in the field of hybrid photographic film technologies and innovative printing techniques. His work has been exhibited in Asia and Europe as well as throughout the United States. Schaub's artworks have been described as "art dreaming about itself." In 2019 he teamed up with his wife, noted author Eve O. Schaub to create artworks under the name EveNSteve.

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