Braden King (born 1971

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) is a

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-based filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. His feature film, ''

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'' (2011), starring Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal, premiered at the 2011 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals and was distributed theatrically by

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in 2012. A multimedia installation version of the project, ''Here The Story Sleeps ', premiered at

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in 2010 and toured internationally with live soundtrack accompaniment by composer Michael Krassner and

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. King's previous work includes the feature film ''Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks It's Back'' (co-directed with photographer Laura Moya), the award-winning short film ''Home Movie'' and music videos for

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(Will Oldham) and

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Career

In 1998, Braden King and Laura Moya co-directed ''Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks its Back'' about crab fishing on Unalaska Island, Alaska. King's short films include the award-winning ''Home Movie'' and ''The Story of the Lark'', a film about

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that was released with her 2010 album ''Homeland'' (

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) as well as music videos featuring

Will Oldham Joseph Will Oldham (born January 15, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded in collaboration with dozens of other musicians under variations of Palace (Palace, Palace Flophouse, Palace Br ...

Chan Marshall Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshall ( ; born January 21, 1972), better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and model. Cat Power was originally the name of her first band, but has become her stage name as a ...

Tortoise (band) Tortoise is an American post-rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990. The band incorporates krautrock, dub, minimal music, electronica and jazz into their music, a combination sometimes termed "post-rock". Tortoise have been consistently c ...

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, and

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. Non-narrative work includes ''Heaven is a Place / Nothing Ever Happens'' (2007), a film and video installation commissioned by Chris Doyle for the ''50,000 Beds'' exhibition at the

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and ''The Story is Still Asleep'', a multi-channel video piece with live musical accompaniment that premiered at the

2008 Sundance Film Festival The 2008 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 17, 2008 to January 27 in Park City, Utah. It was the 24th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival. The opening night film was ''In Bruges'' and the closing night film was '' CSNY Déjà Vu''. Films ...

. In 2005, King directed ''Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration'', an interactive DVD project commissioned by Thrill Jockey Records. The film features interviews with 112 musicians and artists, including

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Califone Califone is an experimental rock band from Chicago. The band is named after Califone International, an audio equipment manufacturer. Their work has been critically acclaimed. Roots & Crowns review AllMusic Califone has released an album and fea ...

Freakwater Freakwater is an American alternative country band from Louisville, Kentucky, with one co-founding member living in Chicago. Freakwater is known for the lead vocals of Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin, who mix harmony and melody in idiosyncratic diss ...

Mouse on Mars Mouse on Mars is a German electronic music duo formed in 1993 by Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma. Their music is a blend of electronic genres including IDM, dub, krautrock, breakbeat and ambient, featuring heavy use of organic analog synth and ...

, Sea and Cake,

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Jem Cohen Jem Alan Cohen (born 1962) is an Afghan-born American filmmaker based in New York City. Cohen is especially known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats ( sixteen-millimetre, Super 8, videotape) and collab ...

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, Kurt Wagner,

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and

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. In 2002, King produced and co-curated (with curato
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''Boxhead Ensemble’s Stories, Maps and Notes From the Half-Light tour'', a program of short films with a live soundtrack at Fotofest in Houston. Films by

, Paula Froehle,

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, Barbara Meter, Julie Murray, Guy Sherwin and Phil Solomon were presented. King's work has been exhibited at international film festivals including Sundance,

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and

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; and institutions including the

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, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art,

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, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Center; and his work has been broadcast on

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(UK) and others. He has lectured at

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, Wheaton College, the Graduate School at the City University of New York,

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and Creative Capital. He graduated magna cum laude from the

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in Los Angeles in 1993. King is represented for commercial work by New York-based Washington Square Films. King's commercial clients include

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, Axiom Law,

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, Scholastic,

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and

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. Truckstop Media, King's digital agency, has produced dozens of innovative multi-media projects since 2001, including the award-winning website and mobile apps for Morgan Spurlock and Paul G. Allen's ''WE THE ECONOMY'' (2014), the project’s follow up, ''WE THE VOTERS'' (2016) and experiential installations for Google, Tumblr and The Museum of Modern Art. King has shot his next feature film, '' The Evening Hour'', a small-town West Virginia crime thriller based on the book of the same name. ''The Evening Hour'' stars Philip Ettinger,

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, and

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. The film was set to shoot during the fall of 2018. He currently lives in New York City with his wife, Mimi Visser, and their two sons, Jonas and Oliver.

Honors and awards

* 2011 C.I.C.A.E. Prize at the 2011

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* 2010 Cinereach at

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Fellowship * 2008

Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...

Atelier, Sundance / NHK International Filmmakers Award * 2007 Sundance Writers and Directors Lab Fellowships and grants from the Creative Capital,

Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...

Annenberg Foundation The Annenberg Foundation is a family foundation that provides funding and support to non-profit organizations in the United States and around the world. Some of the Foundation's core initiatives are the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcast ...

and

Sloan Foundation The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., then-president and chief executive officer of General Motors. The Sloan Foundation makes grants to support or ...

Filmography

Director

* '' The Evening Hour'', 2020 * ''

'', 2011 * ''Homeland: The Story of a Lark'', 2010 * ''Home Movie'', 2009 * ''Sonic Youth: Do You Believe in Rapture'', 2006 * ''Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration'', 2005 * ''Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back'', 1998

Producer

* ''Here'', 2011 * ''Home Movie'', 2009 * ''The Kills: I Hate the Way You Love'', 2005

Cinematographer

* ''Home Movie'', 2009 * ''Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration'', 2005 * ''Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back'', 1998

Writer

* ''Here'', 2011 * ''Home Movie'', 2009

Editor

* ''Here'', 2011 * ''Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back'', 1998

Photography and camera operating

* ''Here'', 2011 (Still Photographs) * ''Screaming Masterpiece'', 2005 (Camera Operator)

Bibliography

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:King, Braden 1971 births Living people American filmmakers American photographers People from North Carolina