Trent Harris

Trent Harris
Harris (left) with Mel Halbach, 2007
Born (1952-06-09) June 9, 1952
Education
Occupations
  • Screenwriter-director
  • author
  • film instructor
Years active1978 present
Notable work
  • Rubin & Ed (1991)
  • Plan 10 from Outer Space (1995)
  • Luna Mesa (2011)
  • The Beaver Trilogy (2000)
StyleExperimental
(e.g.: Vérité;  B-movie ironic;
Underground iconoclastic;
among others)
TelevisionSalt Lake City broadcaster KUTV (writer-director of documentary shorts "Atomic Television," 19781981)
Awards2001 Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award
B-Movie Underground & Trash Film Festival's Groundbreakers Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014
Websiteechocave.net

Trent Harris (born June 9, 1952) is an American filmmaker based in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2013, IndieWire proclaimed Harris "The Best Underground Filmmaker You Don’t Know — But Should."

Harris' films have been featured at various festivals and museums worldwide, including renowned venues like Sundance, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the British Film Institute in London, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna Austria, Les Laboratories in Aubervilliers France, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.