ABOUT GRIEF STICK

After 30 years separated by time and circumstance, poet Alex Behr reunites with lost love Chris Hartman, her “car guy” from San Francisco.

In the fall of 2020, during the Covid lockdown, Chris becomes sick with an accelerated, fatal illness, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). He dies in their dining room on October 6, 2020.

Grief Stick explores the contours of love and death, using photographs, voicemails, and video.

a dogwood ink & northern flicker films co-production

produced by Alex Behr

edited & directed by Brian Padian

Chris Hartman, December 8, 1959 to October 6, 2020

This film received generous support from a Regional Arts and Culture Council Arts 3C grant

film requests and questions: northernflickerfilms@gmail.com

MUCH THANKS AND ADMIRATION TO MUSICIANS FEATURED IN THE FILM

Corrina Repp

Christine Shields

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

MUCH THANKS AND ADMIRATION TO THESE PHOTOGRAPHERS, VIDEOGRAPHERS, AND SOUND RECORDERS/AUDIO GURUS

Jennifer Stady, Lewis Watts, Stephen Perkins, Geoff Soule, Ollie Sims, Charles Nielsen

All other photos/videos courtesy of Alex Behr and Chris Hartman

And to all those who helped as Chris was sick and dying and helped Alex recover afterward, Alex’s eternal thanks