“Woodpecker,” a film directed by Alex Karpovsky, was presented on Tuesday in the D.P. Culp University Center’s Martha Street Culp Auditorium, sponsored by the Mary B. Martin School of the Arts.This film is was the third film screened at ETSU as part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.
In “Woodpecker,” fanatical birdwatchers have descended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hopes of finding the ivory-billed woodpecker.
Declared extinct in the 1940s, the bird has reportedly been spotted by numerous experts.
Much like the bird itself, “Woodpecker” manipulates the viewer’s notions of documentary and narrative techniques within a tragic comedy about hope, perception and some very strange birds.
Karpovsky has been selected by Filmmaker magazine as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”
The Mary B. Martin School of the Arts was created in February 2009 with a donation from James C. Martin in memory of his late wife, a graduate of ETSU and a supporter of the arts.
The school works with arts programs on campus and in the community, and schedules performances, exhibitions, lectures, film screenings and other activities.
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