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The Monsters of Meadowlark
The most remarkable thing about filmmaker Taylor Greeson is that he is able, at such a relatively young age, to handle and revisit the very brutal events of his teenage life in Montana.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 5:00 PM
By FilmStew Staff
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IFFBoston.org
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A river of grief runs through it
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Premiering Thursday, April 24th at the 2008 Independent Film Festival Boston, Meadowlark is a most unusual piece of documentary filmmaking. In it, openly gay 27-year-old director Taylor Greeson confronts some traumatic events of his past that occurred in 1993, an investigation that culminates on film with an in-prison interview of the man who murdered his brother.
Writing for Boston’s Edge newspaper, Sam Baltrusis calls it a “tour-de-force.” And surprisingly perhaps, the L.A.-based Greeson says this wasn’t an attempt to reach some sort of closure.
“Some people think the film is about finding closure and for me it really wasn’t," he tells the paper. “It was about reopening these wounds that I thought had healed but really hadn’t healed very well. For me, it wasn’t about finding closure but about opening and finding a way to understand these events more profoundly."
Notable portions of the film include Greeson retrieving personal items left behind by his then 15-year-old brother, and a telephone conversation with Mike, an adult with whom Greeson had a sexual relationship when he was 12. The filmmaker admits that his attempt to fairly portray Mike has not met with everyone’s approval.
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