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The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a personal documentary about John Peterson, a farmer, artist, and eccentric/innovative thinker cast in rural Illinois. Filmmaker Taggart Siegel has documented John’s struggle to redefine his family farm for over twenty years, witnessing the colorful drama of John’s life. An outcast in his community, Farmer John transforms his world amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free expression, this quintessentially American story heralds a resurrection of farming in America.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Live music by Lesley Littlefield.
ABOUT SPECIAL PROGRAMMING @ NOT A CORNFIELD
Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield brings people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project.
ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD ART PROJECT
Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.
ABOUT LAUREN BON, NOT A CORNFIELD ARTIST
Not a Cornfield artist, Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by Annenberg Foundation.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts center committed to providing equal and affordable access to film and video education and resources for all members of our diverse and vibrant community via a community microcinema space, free and nominal cost media arts education programs, a comprehensive film equipment and service department, and a touring film festival showcasing local established and student filmmakers.
Jaime Lopez and Sarah McCabe, both employed at Not A Cornfield, stumbled upon the film “The Real Dirt on Farmer John” while attending the Bioneers Conference in mid-October. The message brought forth by the film was so important and the analogy between the film and the Not A Cornfield Project so striking that they immediately seized the chance to be the first to screen it in LA.
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