Refuge (sketch 1)

Just weeks before she died in December 2011, Carol Novack sent me "Refuge," a prose poem she hoped I could create a movie with/for/to.
We had already done two movies together, "Civil War" http://vimeo.com/26869484 and "Destination" http://vimeo.com/26782140), and I also did the cover and over a dozen illustrations for her book "Giraffes in Hiding" (http://tinyurl.com/d93v9lv).
"Refuge" was a challenge, the first two movies were done with the voice of Carol reciting her own work, but she of course was no longer alive to record her text. That's when Donald Meyer, the composer who created the sound track of "Destination," agreed to help. He enlisted Victoria Johnson who provided the voice, and he began working with the recording, mixing, arranging, to finally give me the audio that became the base for the images.
I am not sure this is the "final" (video) version (hence "sketch 1"), but given December 29 is the anniversary of Carol's death, I wanted to publish it as a celebration of her memory.

I hope she found her town!

Festival ready (digital file, HD 720p, Apple ProRes 422 HQ or h.264)