Wind Vane Films

12/17/2021

Become aware.

Are you familiar with trauma researcher Bessel van der Kolk? This animation is a quote of his, it explores the process of becoming aware and befriending the inner world of our emotions, bodily sensations, and wounding. In van der Kolk's book "The Body Keeps The Score", he uses the latest research to show “how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust”.

06/18/2021

Your kids are not lost in daydreams, they're drunk on reality.

Children teach us to be present, to be open to the world as it really is: the tangible, the taste-able, the uninhabited expression of emotion. As adults we can't…

12/03/2020

Our film Hope Song, featuring Tinasha LaRayé, Ekeobong Utibe, and the work of Amanda K Fish and Jason Rohona, was just screened as a finalist at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture Spiritus Film festival! Cheers!

https://vimeo.com/378603130

09/13/2020

Big news! Our short film on police brutality with Chris Hoke and Jesus just got selected to play at the IndieX Fest. It's encouraging to see its message get out there.

08/27/2020

Our family's quarantine short film from earlier this year just got selected to play!

https://vimeo.com/windvane/boundaryline

08/14/2020

Always exploring, always learning.
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08/10/2020

[Warning: contains graphic violence]
Last month my friend Chris sent me a surveillance video he got from a public information request. I watched it. I watched Jesus, a dad with two kids, get beat up by two police officers. But this wasn't in the deep South, this wasn't in a red state, this was 30 minutes from my hometown, in Marysville, Washington. And they said this was completely normal. I'll never be able to think about police brutality or parenting the same.

07/05/2020

I’m starting a new Wind Vane related project over at , where I’ll be learning what wisdom we can take away from New Deal America while exploring the photo archives.
@ Camas, Washington

06/25/2020

While people grow through tender love, countries, being conceptual things to begin with, perhaps grow the most through the critique of the status quo and the imagining of new possibilities. Here's another quote in our James Baldwin takeover.

06/24/2020

To learn more about the work of James Baldwin, check out the film I Am Not Your Negro. It's streaming for free on Netflix.

Update. It’s not on Netflix. Actually it’s on Amazon Prime.

06/22/2020

James Baldwin takeover. James Baldwin was a writer/activist during the civil rights movement. His insight is as needed today as it ever was. Wind Vane Films will be posting a series of James Baldwin quotes during the next few weeks.