Paintallica is a collaborative group of artist friends who have a mutual interest in building things and getting rowdy. In November 2015, they were brought in by Witching Hour, an Iowa City based festival exploring and engaging the unknown. Paintallica created an installation over the course of 3 days, complete with chainsaw tree trunk carvings amidst pedestrian mall traffic. While we zoomed in to catch their whole creative process as it unfolded, we simultaneously embarked into our own unknown and edited the film in one day to premiere alongside their gallery installation as a part of the Witching Hour Festival.
A film by Kaitlyn Busbee and Mark Stastny