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, Where the Horses Went to Die (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.
Where the Horses Went to Die (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 (20 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