Meet Wilson Stiner

We had the good fortune of connecting with Wilson Stiner and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Wilson, is your business focused on helping the community? If so, how?
We’re living through a time when so many crises overlap. Storytellers can help find new ways forward. I’m drawn to those that feel both timeless and novel, stories that can hold this global moment as we reach toward deeper inclusion and expansion with as much peace as we can manage. For me, that happens through collaboration, staying open to the unfamiliar, and paying attention to what most wants to come through. I’ve always had the disposition for navigating liminality or seemingly chaotic times through story, like it’s a language my senses were tuned to early on. Over time, I’ve learned how to translate that way of seeing for the benefit of others. Whether it’s through conservational campaigns, documentaries on the nature of identity, or fictional journeys of fulfilling purpose, I train my lens on transformation that comes from addressing critical issues head on.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
My art lives at the intersection of myth and medicine, where story becomes a living organism that can heal, question, and evolve. I’m most excited about a installation method I’ve designed for the short sci-fi film “Continuum Hack” I am currently screening at festivals and galleries. The method will prime and integrate the transformative experience of absorbing artwork intended to shift consciousness. The path here has been anything but easy; it’s been a long apprenticeship in surrender. Each challenge teaches me that coherence isn’t control, a lesson I began teaching myself quite directly with Ser O Estar. What sets my work apart is its devotion to the unknown, to letting story find the form it needs for making an impact.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
The rivers, ridgelines, and forests remind visitors that Atlanta still holds pockets of wildness in surprising and beautiful ways. Paying respect at the site where Tortuguita’s ashes were scattered feels foundational, bringing a needed thread of contemporary history into the landscape. I’d make time for the Etowah and Ocmulgee Mounds as some of the most intact Mississippian sites in the Southeast, and I’d pair that with a night at the regenerative Kaluna Farms. Eyedrum and PushPush Arts (where I develop work) for taking the pulse of the arts. For a memorable culinary spark, Bovino After Dark. And for moving your feet, Rock Steady.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
Before I went to Spain to direct my first feature, Ser O Estar, I attended an event where David Lynch was speaking about his book, Catching the Big Fish. After the talk, I told him about my surrealist ode to Quixote, how I hoped to breathe it to life with a Spanish cast and crew in Cervantes’ own birthplace. He looked directly into my eyes and offered a quiet blessing, one that felt like opening a door. His life and work have always stood apart in their singular vision. But it’s the way he walked through the world with curiosity and moral grace that continues to provide guidance. His encouragement gave a kind of permission to dream big and stay strange, and his example has been a constant buoy through the waves.

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