2025 | United States | Documentary

Freeman Vines (2025)

  • English English 14 mins
  • Director | Tim Kirkman, Andre Robert Lee
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Gill Holland

STATUS: Released

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Freeman Vines built his first guitar when he was a teenager. Now 82-years-old and battling multiple myeloma, he's desperately trying to make a guitar that can reproduce an elusive sound the instrument made decades ago. The search and his artwork took on even more significance a few years ago when Freeman acquired a stack of lumber from a tree used in the lynching of a young Black man named Oliver Moore. In a sprawling storefront shop in Fountain, a town of 130 souls in eastern North Carolina, Vines lives and hand-carves guitars (as well as other objects) that speak to his lifelong conflict with racism in this region. A portrait of a true fine artist, Freeman Vines has found a way to create while surviving in a complex world.

Luthier Legacy Racial History Artistic Obsession Southern Gothic Spiritual Craftsmanship
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