Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan The Audubon Trilogy: Delineations of American Scenery and Manners

The Audubon Trilogy: Delineations of American Scenery & Manners is a chapbook and DVD publication featuring Cairo, New Madrid and West Point, a trilogy of short films which draw upon the writings of the 19th century artist, ornithologist and frontiersman John James Audubon, renowned for his epic publication The Birds of America (1836).Filmed by collaborative artists Cartwright and Jordan along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, the works connect and contrast Audubon's vivid tales of Frontier America with their present day locations: an expansive, cinematic landscape of frozen rivers, backwoods, highways, bluffs, farmland, hunting camps, factories, freight trains and small towns.