Filmmaker Statement

Two things I learned growing up in the rural American South are that there is no dignity in poverty and that there is humor in mankind’s capacity for cruelty. As an artist, I’m fascinated with exploring the way our circumstances can make us cruel. Beware of Goat is a meditation on the way poverty, stress and tribalism can drive even the most responsible or well meaning people toward anger and violence. But above all else, it is an assertion that the best remedy for misery is laughter, even when standing atop the gallows.