Katie Cruel is an excellent short film about artist and architect Frédéric Bartholdi and an experience while traveling across America. An official selection of the 2018 Hollyshorts and Dances with Films festivals, the film is now available to view online.
Katie Cruel was produced through Taliesen Nexus and the SmashCut Film Lab (as was our Harriet Tubman film Minty along with Wigs which we featured here at Phantom Sway).
Set in the late 19th century in the vast openness of the Wyoming territory, Katie Cruel unravels the mystery of what may have inspired French architect and sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi to declare “America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.,” as he concluded his travels across the United States. While on his journey, Bartholdi seeks shelter in a small homestead whose inhabitants keep to themselves, as they try to make do on their own far from what little civilization may be around. Brothers Henry and Jim keep a close watch on wife Katie, but when Bartholdi witnesses the cruel treatment she is subjected to, he unknowingly provides the one thing Katie needs to liberate herself from stranglehold of her family – a way out.
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