Carnivalesque Films
Carnivalesque Films produces stories with the raw sensibilities of aesthetics, experience, and sound while framing the variations in between fiction and nonfiction. Visually kaleidoscopic, our films mash together contrasting styles and jarring images, intentionally violating accepted rules of perfect cuts, standard lighting, and conventional storytelling. In real life, people behave irrationally, succumbing to madness and sometimes self-destruction while pursuing their desires. Carnivalesque Films acknowledges these desires by exploring them as complicated literature. Sometimes these complicated desires are told from a character's point of view, other times the desire itself is the story.
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Downeast
Directed by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon • Documentary • 2012 • 81 minutes
Downeast is an experiential story that unfolds over the course of a year-and-a-half in the small lobster village of Prospect Harbor, Maine. It observes the closing of the last remaining Sardine Cannery in the United Stat...
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Girl Model
Directed by David Redmon & Ashley Sabin • Documentary • With Ashley Arbaugh, Olivia Arben, Rachel Blais, Tigran Khachatrain, Nadya Vall • 2012 • 77 minutes
Girl Model explores how young girls are discovered in obscure corners of the globe and initiated into the high stakes modeling industry. Thi...
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Intimidad
Directed by David Redmon and Ashley Sabin • Documentary • 2008 • 71 minutes
Shot over five years, Intimidad is an in-depth portrait of Cecy and Camilo Ramirez, a young couple struggling to make ends meet in Reynosa, Mexico. They have recently left their 2-year-old daughter, Loida, with Cecy’s mo...
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Mardi Gras: Made in China
Directed by David Redmon • Documentary • 2005 • 72 minutes
Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival – where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity – to the discipli...
