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Avery Hellman

Avery Hellman

Jul 21, 2026

The String

The String

ISMAY

Jul 21 · 59m

32:53
I asked why she made the movie and what she's learned.
32:57
I think, I'll say like in the documentary art form, When you're starting out, a lot of times you don't know what it's about.
33:07
You don't know the question that you're asking.
33:09
And I think you have to push again into risky territory, uncomfortable things.
33:15
And at the time, I was actually making Desert Pavement around the time we started making Finding Lucinda.
33:21
I was experimenting with different art forms and wanting to do a project that involved some kind of documentary storytelling.
33:30
And so we just started making this film.

8 MINS LATER

41:41
Do you feel more on point about it?
CarolynHOST
27:04
We share a song with our listeners and tell us what it is and a little bit about it.
27:10
Sure.
27:10
So I think I'm going to share American Flag.
27:15
And that's the first song off of my next album.
27:18
I wrote it based on an experience that I had during the pandemic.
27:24
So I was living on a ranch and I had always been interested in taming and gentling a wild horse.
27:33
I had worked with wild horses, but never fully untouched wild horses.
BethanyHOST
30:36
Yeah.

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