Kit Anderson

MY ARTIST STATEMENT:

I am not interested in the propaganda of self-expression, production of answers or pornography of consumption. I am interested in honest questions about who we are and why we’re here. I want authentic experiences to explore that viscera. I need to watch – bodies collide and ideas break – this is why I create and capture. This is why I am an artist.

I hear my father saying, “Two things cannot be taught or bought: loyalty and a work ethic.” I have never been late for work and the pursuit of truth defines my life.

I always thought I would be a professional athlete. For a moment, maybe I was. I spent ten years climbing the professional skiing industry. I trained 10,000 hours before I began to do well. It was eight Broken Helmets before I discovered the camera (like the athlete) moves through space and time collecting and capturing information to be distilled into one thin line. When you ski a mountain (look behind you) the line tells a story. It is an artifact, the record of an action. Film is the same. One thin line. The record of an action. Film is the only form with a canvas bigger than a mountain. Yes. I am explorer and storyteller by nature. As I climb, Film is my voice.

My name is Kit Anderson. Cinema is my choice. I am a Cinematic Weapon of Mass Creation and oh yeah (as a boy) I wasn’t allowed to watch TV. Is that important?

P.R. TALKING POINTS:

• Visited over 300 cities in 11 countries and counting. Always carry passport.
• Spent fifteen years snowboarding 100 days a year.
• Can stuff 13 Krumpe’s glazed donuts into my mouth.
• Have watched Cool Hand Luke at least 50 times.
• Never hit my little brother.
• Did world’s largest bungee because it would suck to get the long rope if you’re jumping from the short platform (two weeks later theory was proved correct).
• Addicted to Old Bay/Blue Crabs from Chesapeake Bay.
• Wrecked race car at 102mph – walked back to the bar.
• Not allowed to drink whiskey anymore.
• Naturally right footed but have better aim with the left.
• Never been convicted of a crime.
• Quit cigarettes, but cannot quit coffee.
• Must eat bite-sized foods in even numbers or something undefinable and terrible will happen.
• Can clear any dance floor – any club – in the world (with dance moves or biological warfare depending upon my opinion of said dance-floor).
• Grew up on a dairy farm and don’t drink milk.
• First memory is recycling bottles with my Mom (18 months old).
• Hate talking about classic literature, but adore writing books.
• Earned film school degree from NetFlix.
• Have ridden across Maryland on a bicycle with my Father.
• Parents live two miles from where DC Sniper was caught.
• Father runs a not-for-profit that is the largest home for abused and neglected teenage girls on the East Coast.
• Great, great, great grandfather was Bloody Bill Anderson the legendary Civil War bushwhacker who led the first train robbery and day-light bank robbery in U. S. history. He taught Frank and Jesse James outlawry during the war and rode under the Black Flag. It was the first time the Black Flag was flown in battle sans skull-and-crossbones. I am seriously proud of that if you haven’t noticed, yet.

MY BULLET BIO:

• Born December 18, 1977; Cincinatti Ohio.
• Raised in Western Maryland, approximately where the DC bullshit ends and the Dairy country begins.
• Homeschooled and running wild.
• Attended facist private school.
• Got a dope education at Houghton College, and even got the paperwork to prove it, but that’s another story.
• Graduated and went to work at Culture and Design, making bank at a small design boutique and getting to rock out on Ferrari and Farahakan contracts.
• Quit the 9-5, shackled to a computer all your life bullshit.
• Try my own design firm. Fail. September 11th goes down.
• Move out West to pursue dreams of professional snowboarding in Summit County, Colorado.
• Suffer from three major concussions in two months. Get fired from all sponsors and get hit in an auto accident.
• Meet Ben Mahoney and Hideaway Court crew (Much love; Too Many, Big Deuce, Random Bob and Hasan ). Accept challenge and spend insurance money on first camera.
• Shoot everything.
• Move to Tahoe and make “Gapers Gone Wild”. Learn the in-and-out of copyright law and beat the porn guys.
• Write a couple loser scripts, until Jack Champagne.
• Shoot Jack Champagne. Learn all about unions and spend all my money.
• Spend next two years writing “Never Cry Jack, A Novel”.
• Make Transdimensional Odyssey of Doom with Mathematicians and Doctor Jonathan Phelps.
• Write four feature screenplays: Luxury-and-the-AfterBang, High School Shooter, Broken Helmets and Pony-Psycho-Pomp.
• Start work with Mass Embroidery.
• I am always writing – life is a form.