BIOGRAPHY

Nina Fletcher (she/her) is an artist and filmmaker born and raised in Oregon. She has exhibited work in Providence, RI; Joshua Tree, CA; Los Angeles, CA; and Miami, FL. Her experimental public artwork, On Sand, was distributed across Providence in December 2021. Most recently, she was Director of Photography on the forthcoming short film Good Morning, I Love You (dir. Scott Magid) and is wrapping production on her documentary project Only Fiction, about the Mojave Desert in Southern California, which is expected to be released in May 2022. Fletcher believes in the interconnectedness of all things and watches Twilight (2008) when she’s homesick.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Our project is the story of human-nature entanglement in Siskiyou County, California, a crash site where humans are ever more bound up with an idol of regulated and criminalized nature: the marijuana plant. Increasingly, local tensions over marijuana farming, water usage, rural identity, and political power are reaching a fever pitch. Against the backdrop of the summer harvest, this documentary will critically observe the languishing and compromised county government and call into question the efficacy of criminalization as a political strategy. Theo Whitcomb will co-direct.