The Thousand Islands Film & Stage Studio and Artist Residency program invites artists working in performance to participate in film and theatre projects, staged readings, script development, poetry and audio recordings. Each residency is a project-driven, short term stay.
Directed by Kathleen Reichelt and Wesley Rickert who have been working together since 2008, managing artist run spaces, producing feature length art films, audio recordings and live performance. They are both writers and performing artists, and together have performed as Burning Iceberg in NYC, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Paris. More below.
Beginning with Beat Manor Studios & Airbnb in 2015, The Thousand Islands Film & Stage Studio and Artist Residency has come a long way.
Kathleen Reichelt is co-founder of the Thousand Islands Film & Stage, bringing 20+ years experience in visual, performing and media arts. She is the recipient of The Evan Hughes Playwright Award for the one-act comedy "Who Killed The Curator", founder of The Garage Theatre in Toronto (2008 - 2012), and member of the Dramatist Guild of America. Kathleen is a contributing writer to the NYC art journal Arteidolia.
Wes Rickerts' films draw on his experience as an absurdist sound poet, noise band musician, visual artist and philosopher. His films have received official selection for the Montreal Independent Film Festival 2020, BLOW-UP Chicago International Arthouse FILM FEST 2020 & 2016, an official selection for the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival 2017, semi-finalist for the European Film Festival (Mainstream & Underground), Moscow and Honorable Mention from the 2017 LA Underground Film Forum for contribution to cinema. His absurdist writing & photos are published in "Maintenant #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14 A Journal of Contemporary Dada," Three Rooms Press, NYC. He is the co-founder of the Thousand Islands Film & Stage and co-founder of 253469.
