Rob Summerlin is an award-winning storyteller and merrymaker who moves between illustration, music, film, and performance. He is character-obsessed, specifically with characters who are slightly out of step with reality.
Rob is Queer, French, and American living on the unceded ancestral land of the Ramaytush Ohlone.
Residencies etc.
- Shakespeare & Co, Tumbleweed 2013
- Aspen Institute Poetry Workshop 2017
- Alchemy Arts Center, San Juan, WA 2023
- Artist Against Apartheid, 2024 - Present
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THE POET AND THE PLANT
Links
Letterboxd
The Redford Center
— Full filmDESCRIPTION
“Bittersweet and whimsical, a story in the same vein as those told by Ivor Cutler, or Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, 2001).
It plays as though Jonathan Richman is in one of Aesop’s Fables. The poet is a man struggling to breathe life into his writing and his house plants alike. Basis and Summerlin describe it as ‘A meditation on true love, loneliness, and listening.’
If you’d like to make it a struggling-artist-short double bill, try Victor in Paradise by Brendan McHugh.”
- Esme Betamax, Battle Royale With Cheese