Tinkham Talks

Official Selections for the Light Factory’s 2009 Carolina Media Showcase have been announced, and Todd Tinkham’s experimental short film, “Four Minutes On An Abandoned Bridge” is among them.

While traveling across the US early last year, Tinkham sought out and shot footage of overlooked natural areas in and around cities and towns . Just outside Richland WA, he stumbled upon an abandoned bridge over the Columbia River.

“Only half of the old bridge remained, so it looked more like a fishing pier than a former bridge, protruding out over half of the river,” Tinkham says. “The sunset from the bridge was astounding, and I had to keep dragging the camera and tripod back and forth across the bridge to grab the best images in the changing light…. The guys fishing there were surprisingly tolerant of me asking them to slide this way and that so I could get the shots I was after….They would just laugh and say ‘Again?’…. When I got back to my hotel room and watched the footage, I was astounded by what I’d captured. I knew instantly that I had the beginnings of a very beautiful and moving short piece.”

“Four Minutes On An Abandoned Bridge” has recently screened at  the Spokane International Film Festival,  the Fargo Film Festival, the Secret City Film Festival and a half-dozen others.

The Carolina Media Showcase, screening the best in new short film and video from the Carolinas, will take place on Thursday, May 14, 7pm at the Knight Gallery in downtown Charlotte, NC. The event is open to the public, and tickets are $7. For more info about this wonderful yearly event visit the Light Factory at: http://www.lightfactory.org/

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