BE LIKE AN ANT

BE LIKE AN ANT
Directed by Mike Plante
57 min­utes, 2012

Post-Vietnam, Paul bought a trailer for his fam­ily to live in. After many bad win­ters, the mobile home became unliv­able, so he took mat­ters into his own hands and started to build a house – around the trailer. He never made any blueprints.

30 years, 4 floors and 100 win­dows later, the house is almost done.

A por­trait of a 20th Cen­tury man, redemp­tion of the spirit and the house as a teacher.

two shows in June:

WEIRD CAROLERS by Brent Green. 2009, 4 min­utes, hand­made, screen­ing on dig­i­tal.
A short, hand-animated film about Beethoven and his process. Com­mis­sioned as part of the Lunch­film series.

A SHIP RUNS AGROUND by Jason Byrne. 2009, 10 min­utes, made on 16mm, screen­ing on dig­i­tal.
A scene from the fea­ture doc SCRAP VESSEL, where a ocean liner is beached on pur­pose. Directed and filmed by Jason Byrne, pro­duced by Mike Plante.

and BE LIKE AN ANT, 2012, 57 min­utes, made on home video, screen­ing on digital.

At Union Docs in Brook­lyn
Sun­day, June 17, 7:30pm

and then upstate
At the great new Basil­ica Hud­son on Thurs­day, June 21

and com­ing soon to Fan­dor

Offi­cial Site: belikeanant.com