April • 2020
David was very helpful in reworking this concept and we are very happy with the end result.
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Request QuoteDavid Bernabo is a filmmaker, musician, dancer, visual artist, and writer, performing with the bands Host Skull and How Things Are Made; devising dances with his variable dance company, MODULES; and often collaborating with Maree ReMalia | merrygogo. He curates and produces work for the Ongoing Box imprint and co-curates the Lightlab Performance Series with slowdanger. His documentary films have covered food and food justice (the four-film Food System series), art and music (Site Specific: A History of the Mattress Factory, In A Dark Wood), economics (Moundsville), and nature (Wild Human). David'd client work includes documentary commissions for the Mattress Factory museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art, corporate work for PPG and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and mission-based work for 412 Food Rescue and TeenTaal. David's films have screened at the On Art Film Festival, JFilm Festival, Re:NEW Festival, Afronaut(a) Film Club, the Foodable Film Festival, and on WQED’s Filmmakers Corner.
April • 2020
David was very helpful in reworking this concept and we are very happy with the end result.
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Wild Human, the ninth feature-length documentary film from Pittsburgh filmmaker/artist/musician David Bernabo, investigates how humanity has replaced wilderness with representations of wilderness. From maps to national parks to Sea World to nature photographs, humanity’s designs for the world alter the context in which wilderness exists. The results can be harmless (a floral print dress), catastrophic (nuclear bombs), noble (maintaining national parks), or complicated (upsetting natural cycles of life and death while managing fires in Aspen). Falling somewhere between documentary, personal research project, podcast, and performance video, Wild Human uses unorthodox storytelling to indulge in philosophical questions, quirky history, and a bit of doomsaying in analyzing humanity’s loss of wilderness and its piecemeal reconstruction. A theme of iterative destruction, masking, and alteration of “the wild” arises when exploring topics such as hidden sites on Google Maps, virtual reality, ghost towns, and systems that damage or re-contextualize the natural world like war and the stock market. A diverse pool of media is utilized from Youtube fail videos to archival footage to beautiful sequences filmed during road trips through Colorado, Utah, and Arizona.
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