All Flesh Is Grass

A link to the film and some thoughts.

I apologize for my absence on this platform over the last few months, things get crazy as they do, but I hope to begin posting more regularly here in the future.

All Flesh Is Grass had it’s premiere at Film Fest Knox last month. I didn’t submit the film to any other festivals given it’s specific aim and function, premiering at a regional festival in East Tennessee seemed like a fitting run for the film and I didn’t feel the need to send it onward.

In light of that, I thought I’d share the film in it’s entirety here for the world to see, free of charge of course. I will admit that films like this play best in a cinema, a place where your focus is easily locked and the image is larger and immersive. However, feel free to enjoy the film anyway you sit fit; playing in the background, a quick thumb through the images, or perhaps sticking it out for the long haul. In whichever way you choose to engage the film, I do hope you get something out of it.

The film was born out of a practice of capturing small two minute clips that you may have seen here or on my Instagram prior. I had no intention of editing them together into a larger work.

But then the title All Flesh Is Grass came to me and stuck with me and through that lens the film began to take shape.

It comes from a passage in the King James Bible,

“The voice said, Cry.
And he said, What shall I cry?
All flesh is grass,
and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.”

In the context of the passage it refers mostly to the temporality of life, flesh is like grass which withers and fades.

And through this I began to see and highlight with the footage an interplay between things created by man and nature. And not only how they sit in contrast but also how they blend into each other over time.

It’s a very personal film, shot in my homeland of East Tennessee. It’s obviously indebted to a tradition of landscape cinema that came before, and I hope it sits well in conversation with those other films.

Thanks for watching if you get the chance.