Freezing Fog, 3m, silent, digital stills, watercolor, gouache, 2017
This short video was created as a loop for an exterior projection onto the side of a building. The projection was part of a pop up art show hosted by design firm Engine 8 in Bozeman, MT, Dec 2017 during the NE Neighborhood holiday stroll.
The film is one of my ongoing experiments with timescales, the natural world vs human vs animal time; time as captured by a device, or time as a memory rendered by a human hand, a drawing or painting. Here, the subject, as the title implies, is images of freezing fog, which forms ice crystals on trees, grasses, fences, barbed wire. The frozen trees become sculptural objects as if time itself was frozen. These are mostly still photos, morph and shift into each other and finally into a handmade painting.
Black (W)hole, immersive art installation | Transmutations, 5m video loop, April 2013.
Transmutations is a five minute video loop designed as part of the installation, Black (W)hole which was originally installed in 2013. The work is an Art + Science Collaboration with Sara Mast (art), Chris O’Leary (animation), Cindy Stilwell (film), Jason Bolte (music), Charles Kankelborg (physics) with physics advisors Nico Yunes and Joey Shapiro Key. My contribution was conceiving and creating the floor to ceiling film projection that helped create the immersive environment. In this work, the body is privileged as a site of knowing along with vision and hearing. The viewer’s embodied experience of stepping into a black hole, surrounded by morphing images of the 100 year old Einstein equations which led to the discovery of black holes, activates a visceral knowing.
Black (W)hole has been installed at galleries and museums at UC Santa Cruz, M.I.T., Cambridge Science Festival, and Chabot Space and Science Center among others. More information:
http://blackwhole.montana.edu/index.html
LOST: Forgotten Identities & Hidden Mythologies: A multimedia installation using film, poetry, and painting as tools to examine modern life in the rural American West
2005, Danforth Gallery, Livingston MT
Combining the paintings of Brad Bunkers, the films of Cindy Stillwell and the poetry of Mitchell McInnis, this multimedia installation transforms the use of gallery space into a hybridized motel room, one that might be found while traveling the back highways of Montana’s high-line, or, just as likely, along the various interstate arteries that transverse the western region of the U.S. In this space the artists create an intersection of narratives, artifacts and attitudes informed by the legacy of the mythic West while acknowledging the contradictions of such a myth in the modern world.
Each artist is working with an aspect of western iconography that interrogates and disrupts the romantic notions of Montana and western rural life that so often inhabit galleries and art-spaces throughout the state and region. They attempt to look beyond the too typical depictions of “western” landscapes and characters, instead taking a contemporary look at both past and present lifestyles, examining what they leave behind and what they might suggest for the people who continue to live them.
Films installed: The First Story, A Season on the Move, High Plains Winter, and Hay Daze; 3 photographic prints 
Hybrid Media, LLC, is a production and consulting company founded in 2005 by filmmaker and artist Cindy Stillwell.
With over twenty years of experience in all aspects of film and video production I have developed relationships with many collaborators, artists, musicians, graphic artists and animators. I enjoy experimenting with a variety of formats and applying my on-going film-based art practice to all types of productions.
Montana Taiko “Sweetpea Debut”
Montana Taiko Drum Group video, 4m, HD video, 2010
This video was created for the Bozeman, MT based group Montana Taiko. The group performed for the first time at the Sweet Pea Parade in Bozeman, MT in August 2010. The video commemorates weeks of practice, collaboration and preparation among the founding members as they begin their new chapter as a performing group in the community.
Red Ants Pants Music Festival “Save the Date” video 2012
Red Ants Pants, various projects, super 8 and HD video, 2007-2017
Working with Red Ants Pants owner Sarah Calhoun, I created a series of web videos that help identify her company’s unique brand and values. The videos were used as web marketing tools and in face to face presentations across the country. Working closely with Sarah, we created a style that captures the spirit behind her White Sulphur Springs, MT based company and helped to communicate it to her customers as the company was beginning to grow.
Tart Gallery and Boutique promo
Tart Gallery and Boutique promo, 2.5m, HD video, 2011
I worked with local business owner, Anna Visscher, to create a fun video introducing people to the philosophy behind her gallery and boutique. Located in Bozeman, Montana, Anna describes TART as: a fabulous emporium of local and handmade jewelry and art. We decided it was important to create a piece that both established key points about her business values as well as provide a sketch of the physical vibe inside the shop. Additional camera, Jared Berent; Original Music David Thompson
Bozeman Community Food Co-op rancher profiles: McAlpine Pork
Bozeman Community Food Co-op rancher profiles: Half Circle Beef
Community Food Coop Ad Campaign
Cindy Stillwell/Hybrid Media, Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2003, super8
This campaign was designed and produced for local television broadcast and meant to highlight the local producers of organic meats that are sold at the Community Food Coop in Bozeman, MT. Each ad was designed to highlight the animal raised, and the family or people who tended the animals. They were created in documentary style using super8 and non synch interviews.
Things We Do, music video, 1998
4m, super16mm, 1998 Cinematographer, Badlands, South Dakota portion.
Director Chris Eyre. We shot the band performing in some spectacular spots in and around Pine Ridge reservation and the Badlands, SD. The music video won the American Indian Film Festival award and was shown three times at the Sundance Film Festival.