Kent Youngblood

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Kent Youngblood (August 22, 1965 – ) is an experimental filmmaker.

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Influenced by Luis Buñuel, Bruce Connor and Stan Brakhage, Youngblood's films lack a traditional storyline, preferring to be visual poetry suggesting certain topics and themes. As with other influential experimental filmmakers, Youngblood's films feature a montage of shots combined from widely different sources.

Film topics include politics and war, gender and family issues like father-son relationships and growing up in America. The work includes elements of "found footage", which can be anything from home movies, educational films, documentaries and cartoons from the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

His most famous film, Patriot Dreams (2003), takes us inside a child's dream of war, honor, patriotism and conflicted feelings about his father's service in the Air Force. Using found footage as his canvas, Youngblood suggests that there is a link to the American establishment's portrayal of war to the cartoon-like nature of violence in the media.

Youngblood currently resides in Colorado and has his M.A. in Video/Film from the University of Denver.