Good Neighbors Care

For decades chemical company DuPont and its subsidiary Chemours poisoned North Carolina’s drinking water through illegally dumping forever chemicals into the Cape Fear River. On altered 16mm film, corporate promises of community care and pure water dissolve as rivers and bodies merge in a meditation on what it means to exist in an imperfect environment.

Kate E Hinshaw is a filmmaker, cinematographer, and artist. Specializing in analog film processes, her films frequently use 35mm, 16mm, and super 8mm film that have been altered and animated through bleaching, scratching, painting, and burning the emulsion. As a cinematographer, she collaborates with documentarians, narrative filmmakers, and experimental artists to bring their projects to light.