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Colin West is an award-winning writer & director from a cul-de-sac in Ohio now based in Los Angeles & NYC.

His feature film credits include LINOLEUM starring Jim Gaffigan & Rhea Seehorn, which world premiered at SXSW Film Festival in 2022, and DOUBLE WALKER co-written by and starring Sylvie Mix, which was released in 2021.

His films have been screened internationally at festivals including SXSW, BFI London Film Festival, Fantasia, San Francisco International Film Festival, among many others. He was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Science in Cinema prize at SFIFF in 2022 and was an Annenberg Foundation MFA Fellow at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

You can see the trailer for LINOLEUM by tapping the banner above.

And so we end with… the end. This is the last few shots from the groundbreaking 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi.

This is one of the three films that made me want to get into filmmaking. My editor, Keara Burton, and I bonded a lot over this film and would talk of it often — its use of the power of the montaged image.

We particularly found it useful while we were editing the final sequence of Linoleum, which has very little dialog (and the dialog it does have is cerebral and borderline non-sensical).

Koyaanisqatsi: pure cinematic art at its best!

Thank you all for joining me on the ride that led to Linoleum. The film is released in select theaters only on February 24th. Screening schedule can be found over here: https://www.linoleummovie.com/

Thank you for your eyes and ears <3