EUREKA

"EUREKA" is a film project developed in March of 2020 by Coloradan Actor & Filmmaker Stewart Jackson. Filmed in the Colorado Rockies, while in complete isolation, Eureka was created with the post-meditated intention of being released exactly two years after all filming occurred to remark on the uncertainty that was March 2020. All aspects of the film were completed in their entirety by the filmmaker.

  • Stewart Jackson
    Director
  • Stewart Jackson
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Dramatic Time Capsule
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes 45 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Iphone 10
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Stewart Jackson

Stewart Jackson is an Actor/Director, Fine Art Marketer & Vintage Clothing Store Owner currently residing in Los Angeles, California. He is an alumnus of Loyola University Chicago, holding a B.A in Theater and a B.B.A. in Marketing from the Quinlan School of Business. 
Stewart has worked theatrically in both the US and internationally.  He is a member and improviser of the prestigious ‘Advanced Study Program’ at ‘Upright Citizens Brigade Theater’.
Some of his former credits include: Pheadra’s Love (Tiny Alice~Tokyo, Japan), Hamlet (Newhart Theater Chicago), FML (Newhart Theater Chicago), “’Latchkey Kid” (PH Comedy Chicago),  “Sidewalkers” (Improv Space LA), “Linoleum”(Comedy CollectiveLA) and many more.

Stewart’s teaching/coaching includes Senn School for The Arts (Chicago) where he coached inner city school children in preparation of monologue presentations, University Of Colorado Fine Art Thesis Candidates, and Loyola University Law School students on public speaking and ‘the art of persuasion’. He held the position of President of Loyola Chicago's Theater Department Improv Team.

In addition, Stewart was a liaison to Loiter Galleries in Southern California and is currently selling vintage Western & Eclectic-wear at LA Flea Markets/Online under the alias Tarantula Mating Season. When he is not trying to make people laugh or pay the rent, you can find him skiing back home in Colorado, staying up way too late at night listening to live music or practicing hypnosis on his friends and family.

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Director Statement

In March 2020, like so many of us, I fled my current home (Los Angeles) to go home to my family (Colorado). Before I could safely run into them, I quarantined for 14 days in my late grandmother's 133 year old Victorian home which is located in an extremely remote, historic, gold mining town in the Rockies. A place where I spent many childhood years, but hadn't returned since the age of 11 after a pipe broke and devastated the home one winter.

With zero phone service or wifi in a time when news was minute to minute, and 3 electrically powered devises (A front door light, VHS/TV & A Microwave), I spent many hours talking to the house's spirits and rationing the limited supply of food I had with me. Shot entirely on an Iphone 10, and fully produced alone A-Z , art truly began to imitate this very very new life I was suddenly living.

Upon completion of filming (and my quarantine) I decided to hibernate everything I had shot with the intention only to release it 2 years in the future to see if life made any more or less sense. 2 years later the world seems just as uncertain, but on an entirely different dimensional axis. This is EUREKA.