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God's Architects - a film by Zachary Godshall
in collaboration with Emilie Taylor
with music by Shane Monds

$10 per person - a portion of the proceeds benefit HousingWorks

Sponsored in part by Austin Monthly Home. 

Food and beverages available for purchase.

Architects - you can self report this film for 1 LU.

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God's Architects is a documentary that tells the stories of five divinely inspired artist-architects and their enigmatic creations.The film details how and why these oft-marginalized creators, with neither funding nor blueprints, construct their self-made environments.
 
Backstory:
 
In the spring of 2005, Emilie Taylor, then a graduate student at the Tulane School of Architecture, received a travel grant to research and document self-taught and visionary builders around the south. After visiting and documenting a number of builders, most of whom professed some degree of divine inspiration, Emilie shared her findings with filmmaker Zachary Godshall. Immediately attracted by Taylor's stories, drawings, and photographs, Godshall decided to visit the builders himself.
 
And so in November 2005, Godshall set out from south Louisiana with a camera, tripod, and microphone to interview and document the work of Floyd Banks Jr., a divinely inspired castle builder living in the east Tennessee hill country.
 
Three years later, Godshall completed a feature-length film that both examines and celebrates the work of Banks along with four other solitary builders who have constructed similar monuments. Beyond the builders and their work, the film functions as a personal essay that explores the nature of inspiration and one's dedication to a creative project, no matter how absurd or mysterious the circumstances may seem.

Zack Godshall was recently named the Louisiana Filmmaker of the Year by the New Orleans Film Festival for his new documentary God’s Architects. God’s Architects is playing at film festivals around the country and is slated for a DVD release this fall.  Godshall’s previous film, the heartfelt Low and Behold, a blend documentary and fiction in post-Katrina New Orleans, premiered at Sundance and won numerous awards at festivals around the country.  While working to complete his third feature film, a comic adventure called Lord Byron, Godshall teaches at LSU where he is the Screenwriter-In-Residence.