OARS’ Wild & Scenic Film Festival ~ movie night at The Robbins House
It’s an outdoor movie night! In partnership with The Robbins House, an evening under the stars screening the award-winning film Seeds, preceded by short film A Mystical Ornithology and the first showing of the music video “Paul Cuffe is Me.”
Bring your lawn chairs and blankets, and enjoy snacks from an on-site food truck.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration needed!
About the Films
SEEDS
Directed by Brittany Shyne
SEEDS is a portrait of centennial farmers in the American South. Using lyrical black-and-white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land.
2025 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award Winner. Read more about the film here
“Paul Cuffe Is Me”
Lyrics by Daniel Laurent, music by Roy Studmire, and dancers from Brickhouse NYC
Paul Cuffe Is Me is a music video and visual introduction to The Cuffe Project, a narrative film and series in development about Paul Cuffe, a Black and Wampanoag shipowner, entrepreneur, and abolitionist who lived in Massachusetts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The intention of this piece is to bring Paul Cuffe out of the shadows of history and into the light of our shared consciousness. Though his story has largely been erased, Cuffe’s values were radical then and remain urgent now: community first, shared prosperity, and the belief that individual success means little if it is not distributed for the good of others.
Find the story, music video, and short film here: paulcuffestory.com
A Mystical Ornithology
Directed by Jeremy Seifert and Benjamin James Roberts
Immersed in the songs of blue jays, yellow-throated warblers, and red-shouldered hawks on his forty-six-acre farm in rural South Carolina, acclaimed poet and ornithologist J. Drew Lanham exchanges calls with the birds that stop over at his home during their seasonal migrations. For Drew, these creatures are gods, transcendent beings who summon a response of reverence. Reverberating with sound, music, light, and ethereal cinematic expression, A Mystical Ornithology weaves a kinetic texture for the senses and invites you into a poetic evocation of the paradox of love and grief within the changing nature of the seasons.
