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{{Short description|American filmmaker (born 1952)}}
{{Short description|American filmmaker (born 1952)}}
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| name =
| name = Trent Harris
| image = Trent Harris with Mel Halbach.jpg
| image = Trent Harris with Mel Halbach.jpg
| image_upright =
| alt =
| alt =
| caption = Harris (left) with Mel Halbach, 2007
| caption = Harris (left) with Mel Halbach, 2007
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|06|09}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rateyourmusic.com/films/trent_harris |title=Trent Harris Filmography |publisher=Rate Your Music |date=1952-06-09 |accessdate=2018-04-09}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|06|09}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rateyourmusic.com/films/trent_harris |title=Trent Harris Filmography |publisher=Rate Your Music |date=1952-06-09 |accessdate=2018-04-09}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[St. Anthony, Idaho]], [[U.S.]]<ref name="cityweekly1">{{cite web|url=https://m.cityweekly.net/utah/mr-mondo/Content?oid=2128863 |title=Mr. Mondo &#124; Cover Story &#124; Salt Lake City &#124; Salt Lake City Weekly |publisher=M.cityweekly.net |date=2006-12-21 |accessdate=2018-04-09}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[St. Anthony, Idaho]], U.S.<ref name="cityweekly1">{{cite web|url=https://m.cityweekly.net/utah/mr-mondo/Content?oid=2128863 |title=Mr. Mondo &#124; Cover Story &#124; Salt Lake City |work=Salt Lake City Weekly |date=2006-12-21 |accessdate=2018-04-09}}</ref>
| nationality =
| education = {{Plainlist|
| education = [[University of Utah]], B.A., M.A.<br />[[American Film Institute]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv49707 |title=Archives West: Trent Harris independent film collection, 1977-2007 |publisher=Archiveswest.orbiscascade.org |date= |accessdate=2018-04-09}}</ref>
*[[University of Utah]], B.A., M.A.
*[[American Film Institute]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv49707 |title=Archives West: Trent Harris independent film collection, 1977-2007 |publisher=Archiveswest.orbiscascade.org |date= |accessdate=2018-04-09}}</ref>
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| occupation = Screenwriter-director<br />Author<br />Film instructor
| occupation = {{hlist|Screenwriter-director|author|film instructor}}
| years_active = 1978&ndash; present
| years_active = 1978&ndash; present
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| notable_works = {{ubl|Rubin & Ed (1991)|Plan 10 from Outer Space (1995)|Luna Mesa (2011)|The Beaver Trilogy (2000)}}
| employer =
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| style = [[Experimental film|Experimental]]<br />(e.g.: [[Cinéma vérité|Vérité]]; &nbsp;[[B-movie]] [[ironic]];<br />[[Shoestring budget|Underground]] [[iconoclastic]];<br />among others)
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| notable_works = Rubin & Ed (1991), Plan 10 from Outer Space (1995), Luna Mesa (2011), The Beaver Trilogy (2000)
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| style = [[Experimental]]<br />(e.g.: [[Cinéma vérité|Vérité]]; &nbsp;[[B-movie]] [[ironic]];<br />[[Shoestring budget|Underground]] [[iconoclastic]];<br />among others)
| television = [[Salt Lake City]] broadcaster [[KUTV]] (writer-director of documentary shorts "Atomic Television," 1978&ndash;1981)
| television = [[Salt Lake City]] broadcaster [[KUTV]] (writer-director of documentary shorts "Atomic Television," 1978&ndash;1981)
| awards = 2001 Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award<br />B-Movie Underground & Trash Film Festival's Groundbreakers Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0365408/awards |title=Trent Harris - Awards - IMDb |publisher=M.imdb.com |date= |accessdate=2018-04-09}}</ref>
| awards = 2001 Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award<br />B-Movie Underground & Trash Film Festival's Groundbreakers Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0365408/awards |title=Trent Harris - Awards |publisher=IMDb |accessdate=2018-04-09}}</ref>
| website = {{URL|echocave.net}}
| website = {{URL|echocave.net}}
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| notable works = Mondo Utah (1996)<br />The Wild Goose Chronicles (1998)
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'''Trent Harris''' (born 1952) is an independent filmmaker based in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]]. In 2013, [[IndieWire|Indiewire]] proclaimed Harris "The Best Underground Filmmaker You Don’t Know — But Should.<ref name="indiewire.com">{{cite web |title=How Trent Harris Became the Best Underground Filmmaker You Don't Know — But Should {{!}} IndieWire |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2013/05/how-trent-harris-became-the-best-underground-filmmaker-you-dont-know-but-should-38951/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624075258/http://www.indiewire.com/2013/05/how-trent-harris-became-the-best-underground-filmmaker-you-dont-know-but-should-38951 |archive-date=2017-06-24 |website=www.indiewire.com}}</ref>
'''Trent Harris''' (born June 9, 1952) is an American filmmaker based in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]]. In 2013, [[IndieWire]] proclaimed Harris "The Best Underground Filmmaker You Don’t Know — But Should."<ref name="indiewire.com">{{cite web |title=How Trent Harris Became the Best Underground Filmmaker You Don't Know — But Should |publisher=IndieWire |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2013/05/how-trent-harris-became-the-best-underground-filmmaker-you-dont-know-but-should-38951/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624075258/http://www.indiewire.com/2013/05/how-trent-harris-became-the-best-underground-filmmaker-you-dont-know-but-should-38951 |archive-date=2017-06-24}}</ref>


Harris’ films have been featured at dozens of festivals and museums worldwide, with screenings at [[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]], the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], the British Film Institute in London, the [[Edinburgh Film Festival]], the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna Austria, Les Laboratories in Aubervilliers France, The [[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts]] in San Francisco and the [[Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive|Pacific Film Archive]] in Berkeley.<ref name="film.utah.edu">{{Cite web |title=Department of Film and Media Arts, University of Utah - Trent Harris |url=https://www.film.utah.edu/people/alumni/item/70-trent-harris}}</ref>
Harris' films have been featured at various festivals and museums worldwide, including renowned venues like [[Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]], the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], the British Film Institute in London, the [[Edinburgh Film Festival]], the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna Austria, Les Laboratories in Aubervilliers France, The [[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts]] in San Francisco, and the [[Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive|Pacific Film Archive]] in Berkeley.<ref name="film.utah.edu">{{Cite web |publisher=Department of Film and Media Arts, University of Utah |title=Trent Harris |url=https://www.film.utah.edu/people/alumni/item/70-trent-harris}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==
Harris taught film and screenwriting classes at the [[University of Utah]] and worked as a documentarian and television journalist. He wrote and directed six feature films, many experimental movies, and more than one-hundred documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, NBC, and others.<ref name="film.utah.edu" />
Harris taught film and screenwriting classes at the [[University of Utah]] and worked as a documentarian and television journalist. He wrote and directed six feature films, many experimental movies, and more than one hundred documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, NBC, and others.<ref name="film.utah.edu" />


In 1991, he wrote and directed the comedy ''[[Rubin and Ed]]'', in which [[Crispin Glover]] and [[Howard Hesseman]] wander the desert looking for a suitable place to bury a frozen cat.
In 1991, he wrote and directed the comedy ''[[Rubin and Ed]]'', in which [[Crispin Glover]] and [[Howard Hesseman]] wander the desert looking for a suitable place to bury a frozen cat.


In 2001, he released ''[[The Beaver Trilogy]]'', a compilation film that documents his obsession with a man called Groovin' Gary (Richard Griffiths). The Beaver Trilogy features [[Sean Penn]] and [[Crispin Glover]] as Groovin' Gary in part two and part three, respectively. The Los Angeles Critics Association awarded Harris "Best Independent Experimental Film," was listed by the London Guardian as one of ”Fifty Lost Masterpieces,” and hit the "Top Ten" list of Art Forum Magazine.<ref name="film.utah.edu" /> At AFI, Harris twice filmed fictionalized versions of Groovin’ Gary's story, renaming his protagonist Larry Huff.
In 2001 he released ''[[The Beaver Trilogy]]'', a compilation film that documents his obsession with a man called Groovin' Gary (Richard Griffiths). The Beaver Trilogy features [[Sean Penn]] and [[Crispin Glover]] as Groovin' Gary in part two and part three, respectively. The Los Angeles Critics Association awarded Harris "Best Independent Experimental Film," was listed by the London Guardian as one of ”Fifty Lost Masterpieces,” and hit the "Top Ten" list of Art Forum Magazine.<ref name="film.utah.edu" /> At AFI, Harris twice filmed fictionalized versions of Groovin’ Gary's story, renaming his protagonist Larry Huff.


In 2012, he finished the feature film, ''Luna Mesa''<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 September 2014 |title=Luna Mesa (2011) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124845/ |website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> which stars [[Richard Dutcher]] and [[Alex Caldiero]].
In 2012, he finished the feature film, ''Luna Mesa''<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 September 2014 |title=Luna Mesa (2011) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124845/ |website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> which stars [[Richard Dutcher]] and [[Alex Caldiero]].
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In 2015, he was the subject of a documentary called ''Beaver Trilogy Part IV'', narrated by [[Bill Hader]], which examined his ''The Beaver Trilogy'' film and his relationship with its star, Richard Griffiths.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 January 2015 |title=Bill Hader to Narrate Cult Film Documentary 'Beaver Trilogy Part IV' – Sundance |url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/bill-hader-beaver-trilogy-part-iv-sundance-trent-harris-1201354077/}}</ref>
In 2015, he was the subject of a documentary called ''Beaver Trilogy Part IV'', narrated by [[Bill Hader]], which examined his ''The Beaver Trilogy'' film and his relationship with its star, Richard Griffiths.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 January 2015 |title=Bill Hader to Narrate Cult Film Documentary 'Beaver Trilogy Part IV' – Sundance |url=https://deadline.com/2015/01/bill-hader-beaver-trilogy-part-iv-sundance-trent-harris-1201354077/}}</ref>


Harris' web series ''Echo People'' is a spin-off of ''[[Rubin and Ed]].''<ref>{{cite web |title=TV & Film |url=https://saltlakedirt.com/film/f/filmmaker-trent-harris}}</ref>
Harris' web series ''Echo People'' is a spin-off of ''[[Rubin and Ed]].''<ref>{{cite web |title=TV & Film |url=https://saltlakedirt.com/film/f/filmmaker-trent-harris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131190234/https://saltlakedirt.com/film/f/filmmaker-trent-harris |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-01-31 }}</ref>


Harris has written three books: ''The Wild Goose Chronicles'', ''Fate Is A Hairy Rodent'', and ''Mondo Utah''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trent Harris' Books |url=http://www.echocave.net/books.html}}</ref>
Harris has written three books: ''The Wild Goose Chronicles'', ''Fate Is A Hairy Rodent'', and ''Mondo Utah''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trent Harris' Books |url=http://www.echocave.net/books.html}}</ref>


== Filmmaking Style ==
== Filmmaking Style ==
When Harris describes his technique, he compares himself to two directors who most film lovers would never mention in the same breath: [[Michelangelo Antonioni]] and [[Ed Wood]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sean P. Means: Utah filmmaker Trent Harris returns with experimental 'Luna Mesa' - the Salt Lake Tribune |url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=58166435&itype=CMSID}}</ref>
Harris compares his style to two directors, [[Michelangelo Antonioni]] and [[Ed Wood]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sean P. Means: Utah filmmaker Trent Harris returns with experimental 'Luna Mesa' - the Salt Lake Tribune |url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=58166435&itype=CMSID}}</ref>


== Filmography ==
== Filmography ==
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Latest revision as of 03:23, 1 December 2024

For the American football defensive end, see Trent Harris (American football).
Trent Harris
Harris (left) with Mel Halbach, 2007
Born (1952-06-09) June 9, 1952 (age 72)[1]
St. Anthony, Idaho, U.S.[2]
Education
Occupations
  • Screenwriter-director
  • author
  • film instructor
Years active1978– present
Notable work
  • Rubin & Ed (1991)
  • Plan 10 from Outer Space (1995)
  • Luna Mesa (2011)
  • The Beaver Trilogy (2000)
StyleExperimental
(e.g.: Vérité;  B-movie ironic;
Underground iconoclastic;
among others)
TelevisionSalt Lake City broadcaster KUTV (writer-director of documentary shorts "Atomic Television," 1978–1981)
Awards2001 Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award
B-Movie Underground & Trash Film Festival's Groundbreakers Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014[4]
Websiteechocave.net

Trent Harris (born June 9, 1952) is an American filmmaker based in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2013, IndieWire proclaimed Harris "The Best Underground Filmmaker You Don’t Know — But Should."[5]

Harris' films have been featured at various festivals and museums worldwide, including renowned venues like Sundance, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the British Film Institute in London, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna Austria, Les Laboratories in Aubervilliers France, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.[6]

Career

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Harris taught film and screenwriting classes at the University of Utah and worked as a documentarian and television journalist. He wrote and directed six feature films, many experimental movies, and more than one hundred documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, NBC, and others.[6]

In 1991, he wrote and directed the comedy Rubin and Ed, in which Crispin Glover and Howard Hesseman wander the desert looking for a suitable place to bury a frozen cat.

In 2001 he released The Beaver Trilogy, a compilation film that documents his obsession with a man called Groovin' Gary (Richard Griffiths). The Beaver Trilogy features Sean Penn and Crispin Glover as Groovin' Gary in part two and part three, respectively. The Los Angeles Critics Association awarded Harris "Best Independent Experimental Film," was listed by the London Guardian as one of ”Fifty Lost Masterpieces,” and hit the "Top Ten" list of Art Forum Magazine.[6] At AFI, Harris twice filmed fictionalized versions of Groovin’ Gary's story, renaming his protagonist Larry Huff.

In 2012, he finished the feature film, Luna Mesa[7] which stars Richard Dutcher and Alex Caldiero.

In 2015, he was the subject of a documentary called Beaver Trilogy Part IV, narrated by Bill Hader, which examined his The Beaver Trilogy film and his relationship with its star, Richard Griffiths.[8]

Harris' web series Echo People is a spin-off of Rubin and Ed.[9]

Harris has written three books: The Wild Goose Chronicles, Fate Is A Hairy Rodent, and Mondo Utah.[10]

Filmmaking Style

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Harris compares his style to two directors, Michelangelo Antonioni and Ed Wood.[11]

Filmography

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Feature films

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References

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  1. ^ "Trent Harris Filmography". Rate Your Music. 1952-06-09. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  2. ^ "Mr. Mondo | Cover Story | Salt Lake City". Salt Lake City Weekly. 2006-12-21. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  3. ^ "Archives West: Trent Harris independent film collection, 1977-2007". Archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  4. ^ "Trent Harris - Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  5. ^ "How Trent Harris Became the Best Underground Filmmaker You Don't Know — But Should". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 2017-06-24.
  6. ^ a b c "Trent Harris". Department of Film and Media Arts, University of Utah.
  7. ^ "Luna Mesa (2011)". IMDb. 6 September 2014.
  8. ^ "Bill Hader to Narrate Cult Film Documentary 'Beaver Trilogy Part IV' – Sundance". 20 January 2015.
  9. ^ "TV & Film". Archived from the original on 2020-01-31.
  10. ^ "Trent Harris' Books".
  11. ^ "Sean P. Means: Utah filmmaker Trent Harris returns with experimental 'Luna Mesa' - the Salt Lake Tribune".

Sources

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Archives
Interview
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