PETE CANDLER PRESENTS A DEEPER SOUTH: AN EVENING OF FILMS FROM THE ROAD
[Asheville, NC] Author, photographer, and filmmaker, Pete Candler presents A DEEPER SOUTH: AN EVENING OF SHORT FILMS FROM THE ROAD at The Grail Moviehouse on October 2nd, 2023.
Doors Open at 6:30. Program begins at 7:00. Tickets ($15) can be purchased at adeepersouth.com/roadshow.
Veteran road-tripper and Asheville resident Pete Candler will present a series of short films from the American South that beautifully and hauntingly capture the contradictions of the region. From short on-site sketches of neglected places to finely-crafted visual stories, Pete’s films invite viewers on a meditative journey through the mostly-undiscovered terrain of public and private memory in the nation’s most complicated and imaginatively fertile region.
Pete is “a quintessential storyteller, in the great Southern tradition of which he describes, but a storyteller of magnificent largesse of spirit: one whose heart is so large that you feel he has forgiven us for pain we don’t remember inflicting, and pain we don’t recall enduring, in both a cultural and personal sense.”
—ROSANNE CASH
“An important voice in the discussion of Southern culture and history.”
—MICHAEL W. TWITTY
Pete’s vision as an artist is rooted in the idea that the spiritual, political, and cultural health of a nation, region, city, town, or person depends upon an honest and unflinching memory; that the gravest danger to our cities and ourselves is a willful amnesia; that hope is to be found through the work of active remembrance, putting back together the fragments of personhood scattered by a culture of selective memory. Pete is the host of the podcast, A Deeper South, author of The Road to Unforgetting, Detours in the American South 1997 - 2022, and A Deeper South, forthcoming from The University of South Carolina Press in May 2024.