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Allen Meadows is an American filmmaker whose work traces dramatized nonfiction. A curiosity to pair depth and texture, matured during his time with Holland & Sherry in New York, stems from his understanding of tailoring. From 2015 to 2018, Allen studied under Christine Choy at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts. A curiosity to pair depth and texture stems from his understanding of tailoring. Here, he brought the scrutiny of documentary storytelling to his narratives. A curiosity to pair depth and texture, matured during his time with Holland & Sherry in New York, stems from his understanding of tailoring. The following represents an early selection of his work:

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Elizabeth Eakins

Commissions for Holland & Sherry Interiors (2022-2023) that accompany the master hand weavers of Elizabeth Eakins in Norwalk, Connecticut. Additional stills portray Holland & Sherry’s own studio artisans in Owings Mills, Maryland and the collaborative screen printers at Barnaby Prints in Greenwood Lake, New York. As a sequence, I repurposed the following images from the development of a feature film. Due to the nature of the pandemic, the concept’s origins, which I will only vaguely address as a thriller, started with location scouts. I began with locations that I grew up with as a native of eastern Pennsylvania and mapped day trip spots 25 minutes to an hour. Scenes thought of thereafter would be planted in the script based on the most engaging locations and how they rendered on film — a Frenchtown river story was an initial concept, though the towns themselves were not suitable compared to surrounding areas.

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Film stills from a Tisch narrative exercise that fictionalize the eviction of an abandoned home. Consultation provided by the NYU Department of Sociology in 2016.

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Restored prints of the Sebayan family (Allen’s mother’s side) — dated between 1959 and 1968. Settings include Boerum Hill in Brooklyn, known only to Allen’s grandmother as South Brooklyn, and parts of Nicaragua. Contemporary portraits and artifacts to follow as furthered research.

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i. object studies and self portraits (2025), ii. frames from an untitled NYU short (2016), iii. ice (2022), iv. textile construction at the Elizabeth Eakins studio (2022-23)