North Carolina noise musician Scotty Irving plays homemade instruments inspired by Biblical verse, bangs the ground with hammers, and generally cranks it up for the Lord. This documentary portrait examines his motivations for climbing out so far on musical and theological limbs.
(2001)
Featuring Scotty Irving
Directed, Photographed, and Edited by Jim Haverkamp & Brett Ingram
Awards
Best Short, Asheville Film Festival, Asheville, NC
Jurors’ Citation, Black Maria Film & Video Festival (touring)
Best Documentary, Coney Island Short Film Festival, New York, NY
Jury’s Special Citation for Short Documentary Film, eKsperim[E]nto Film Festival, Manila, Philippines
Best in Show, Free Times Film Crawl, Columbia, SC
Grand Prize, Hi Mom! Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
Special Jurors’ Award for Cinematography, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival Iowa City, IA
Best Documentary, MicroCineFest, Baltimore, MD
Best Documentary, Red Bank International Film Festival, Red Bank, NJ
Screenings
Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film and Video, Victoria, BC, Canada
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
Carolina Filmmakers Showcase, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
CineVegas International Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC
DC Underground Film Festival, Washington, DC
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
Documental, Los Angeles, CA
Documentary Film and Video Happening, Duke University, Durham, NC
Downstream International Film Festival, Gainesville, GA
Documenta, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Durango Film Festival, Durango, CO
Damah Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Emerald Eye Short Film Festival, Greenville, NC
Flicker – New York City; Austin, TX; Chapel Hill, NC; Richmond, VA; New Orleans, LA, Los Angeles, CA
Forest Theatre Short Film Festival, Forest Grove, OR
Glitter Films, Raleigh, NC
Hi/Lo Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Hi Mom “Best of the Fest” Tour, Chapel Hill, NC
Independent Exposure, San Francisco, CA, Houston, TX, Springfield, OH
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT
Johns Hopkins Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
Kalamazoo Shorts Festival, Kalamazoo, MI
LuLu’s Tech Circus Digital Film Festival, Raleigh, NC
MidCoast Film & Arts Festival, Quad-Cities, Iowa
Makor Marathon “Inside/Out,” Makor Center, NYC
Microcinema International, San Francisco, CA
Nashville Independent Film Festival, Nashville, TN
NC State University Independent Filmmakers Series, Raleigh, NC
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
RiverRun International Film Festival, Winston-Salem, NC
The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NYC
Rooftop Films, Brooklyn, NY
Rooftop Films and Clamor Magazine’s “Power of Living: Become the Media”Midwest Tour, 2003: Ann Arbor, MI, Urbana, IL, Chicago, IL, Madison, WI, Milwaukee, WI, Iowa City, IA, Omaha, NE, Lawrence, KS, Columbia, MO, St. Louis, MO, Greencastle, IN, Indianapolis, IN, Bloomington, IN, Athens, OH
San Francisco Independent Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
ScreenArts Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
20,000 Leagues Under the Industry Film Festival, Cleveland, OH
Valleyfest Film Festival, Knoxville, TN
Black Maria Film and Video Touring Festival, 2002:
American University, Rome, Italy
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Virginia Festival of American Film, Charlottesville
Savannah College of Art and Design
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Wichita Center for the Arts
Out North Contemporary Art House, Anchorage, AK
University of Delaware
Rutgers University of New Jersey
University of Cincinnati School of Art
McDonough Museum of Art at Youngstown University, OH