Attend Film Prize in-person October 16-17th or watch online starting October 15th, watch all 20 short films, and then you can vote for the grand prize winner of $50,000 cash. Plus you can vote for the best acting performance category!
Tensions rise and plans derail when a group of experienced art thieves reluctantly team up with a rookie informant.
Produced by Taylor Deville, Sophia White
Starring Matthew Nichols, Anne Brown Petersen, Romeo Reese, Resa Mishina
Cinematography by Jeremy Enis
Edited by Taylor Deville
Music by Sonum
Taylor Deville is a young, dynamic filmmaker and video editor. With a background in dance, she
brings a rhythmic sensibility to her filmmaking, ensuring that every frame is not just seen but felt. As a writer and director, Taylor is dedicated to incorporating creativity and passion into every project she undertakes. She believes in the power of storytelling and strives to create engaging narratives that reflect meaningful beliefs and values.
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For centuries, people have posed the question, “what defines something as art?” This seemingly simple question has been the foundation for countless seminars, crash courses, college theses, heated arguments, and even art pieces themselves. And while the answer to this question continues to be debated among many, I believe I have found my personal answer: Art is something that sparks conversation.
Now what defines something as a good or bad piece of art is a whole different can of worms that I don’t intend on opening… or do I?
The concept for Fruits of Our Labor began when my co-producer and I stumbled upon an article about a very specific piece of art that had just sold for a total of 6.2 million dollars. Now this news ignited a very long, very heated discussion about art and how its worth is determined. As the two of us are previous art majors, you can imagine how long this conversation lasted. Once we had finally run out of things to say (sort of), we decided we wanted to officially join the conversation this piece had started and what better way to do that than to make a comedic short film.
While this film is very much a light hearted comedy and a nod to some of the heist film greats, its core is a little more sincere. Fruits of Our Labor is meant to interrogate the culture of contemporary art and join the discussion on how art is defined. What makes a piece worth over 6 million dollars? How does hype, press, and notoriety affect the value of a given work? How far into the absurd can an artist push the concept of art, and how far will the world continue to agree?
-Taylor Deville
