Fishar Stevens is a filmmaker from Rhode Island and the mind behind Tunnel, a creative studio that’s half real business, half running joke. For six years, he’s documented Tunnel’s attempts to “make it,” turning the chaos of building a company into an evolving meta-story about ambition, failure, and the absurdity of chasing success on camera.
Q+A with the filmmaker will follow the screening.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I like when people dedicate their focus to projects over long periods of time. Progression is the foundation of every good story in the world. “You were once that, and now you are THIS.”
There is the positive side of progression. Rags to riches, weak to strong, naïve to knowledged, pawn to king, lost to found. And then there is the reverse. Order to chaos, hope to heartbreak, legend to ghost, genius to madman, free to trapped.
The greatest stories show the greatest progression. Anybody that dedicates their focus to something over a lifetime is sure to live out a good story. That’s what I want to do.