Nine-Story Mountain (69 minutes) charts the path of three western researchers, from Lhasa to Mount Kailash, Tibet, on a journey to understand pilgrimage practices across the Tibetan plateau.
Team:
Director: Augusta X. Thomson
Cinematographer: Augusta X. Thomson
Editor: Chelsi Bullard
Producer: Chelsi Bullard
Press:
Elle Canada: “Travel Memoir: The Power of Pilgrimage”
Us vs. Film
Hot House Magazine
Shambhala Sun Foundation
Screenings:
Kathmandu International Film Festival
FilmSHIFT Film Festival
Art & Tourism Film Festival
Brisbane Himalayan Film Festival
Tibet House (World Premiere)
Sacred Himalayan Beauty Art Exhibit (WIP)
University of British Columbia (WIP)
Harvard University (WIP)
Oxford University (WIP)
Awards:
1st Place Religious Tourism, Art & Tourism Film Festival
Learning from Lhagva (60 minutes) takes viewers into the lives of female Mongolian pastoralists fighting to survive financially and culturally, as their country becomes a locus for foreign investors, eager to capitalize on Mongolia’s rich mineral resources.
Learning from Lhagva (Post-production)
Director: Augusta X. Thomson
Cinematographer: Augusta X. Thomson
Editor: Augusta X. Thomson, Renee Anderson
Producer: Augusta X. Thomson
Holding Space (20 min) explores the material and metaphysical imprint of objects left by pilgrims to symbolically “let go” of emotional burdens, at the Cruz de Ferro, a ritualistic site along the Camino de Santiago, in the north of Spain.
Director: Augusta X. Thomson
Cinematographer: Augusta X. Thomson
Editor: Augusta X. Thomson
Producer: Augusta X. Thomson & The Kalliopeia Foundation.
Using a combination of archival and observational footage, Cemetery of Radiant Things (20 min) tells the story of Dead Horse Bay, one of New York’s largest refuse sites, through the perspective of a narrator speaking to the bay.
Cemetery of Radiant Things (Post-production)
Director: Augusta X. Thomson
Cinematographer: Augusta X. Thomson
Editor: Augusta X. Thomson
Producer: Augusta X. Thomson & The Culture and Media Program (NYU).
A short film (5 min) about Brooklyn's, Dead Horse Bay, an eroding landfill with a haunted past.
Director: Augusta X. Thomson
Cinematographer: Augusta X. Thomson
Editor: Augusta X. Thomson
Producer: Program in Culture and Media, New York University
Screenings:
WILD Film Festival
Filmshift Film Festival
Student World Impact Film Festival
Awards:
Best Student Film, WILD Film Festival
Shot using a combination of digital devices, this short sensory film reflexively documents the arrival of pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela’s Praza do Obradoiro.
La Llegada (In Production)
Logline:
This short sensory film (15 min) uses a combination of digital devices to reflexively document the arrival of pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela’s Praza de Obradoiro.
Director: Augusta X. Thomson
Cinematographer: Augusta X. Thomson, Tyler Gambino
Producer: Augusta X. Thomson, Fulbright IIE
