S1.E13 ∙ Foundations: Through the Lens

Middle aged woman - Shelley leaves Idaho for NYC to study tango, after a divorce. Shelley has an idea for a dance project. Millions of fireflies meet in a grove of trees in Borneo all blinking individually. By midnight they are all blinking in sync. Shelley wants to use this as a metaphor for how artists can create world peace. Shelley receives a gift from Athena - a crystal that has healing powers. As she begins to work on the project, she is challenged by unknown forces in the Shadow side, Big business, and petty thugs. At stake are the lost crystal of Atlantis and making a positive vibrational shift on December 21, 2012, the end of the Mayan calender.

I wanted to show the two sides of the Japanese countryside. 1. the environment, specifically nature even in the human manipulation of landscape and 2. the aging population and decline of pastoral life. I wanted to especially experiment with the sights and sounds to show that the human flow of time does not affect the longer natural flow of time. I wanted to show the strong bonds we create with ourselves through the veneration of our ancestors are indestructible but pales in comparison to the forces of nature.

A collection of garden gnomes.

Winners of the singing competition from all over the world compete for the ultimate title of World Idol.

The third installment in Koszulinski's Florida trilogy, Last Stop, Flamingo takes one last critical look at the sunshine state. Koszulinski investigates a region defined by imaginary histories and landscapes, from the drained and dredged river known as The Everglades to the man-made white sand beaches that make up Florida's coastline. Early visions of Florida landscapes are revealed, from the early 20th-century Koreshan utopian community, founded by Cyrus Teed in the swamplands of Florida, to the world's largest planned subdivision--Golden Gate Estates--which projected a population of over 400,000 residents. Five-hundred years after Ponce de Leon's discovery of Florida, Koszulinski reflects on the many ways in which Florida's landscapes have been irreversibly shaped by human desires.