Braden King (b. 1971, Cherry Point, North Carolina) graduated from the Los Angeles-based USC School of Cinema-Television in 1993 and became a sought-after director of commercials and music videos. He worked with Sonic Youth, Chan Marshall, Will Oldham and other musicians. In 1998 he teamed up with photographer Laura Moya to shoot the lyrical meditative documentary Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back, about life on the Aleutian Islands off the west coast of Alaska. The film was shown at more than twenty festivals around the world. In his film work, King consistently challenges the normal approach to the medium. The experimental film The Story Is Still Asleep (2008) screened at the Sundance festival, where the director’s latest piece Here was also premiered.
46. IFF Karlovy Vary
