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

Hi Kyle, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
Being in control of the creative works we create as artists is now more important than ever in the age of AI. I’ve always wanted to control the films that I create, to own the copyright, and to have some say in their distribution. Too many works in the past have been stranded and abandoned. The most precious things we create are our personal creative artworks.

What should our readers know about your business?
I’m a filmmaker who makes films about individuals and communities transformed by crisis. My stories are high stakes, character driven, and both entertaining and challenging. No, it’s never easy. Every film is a struggle. Every time it’s hard to raise the money, get the film finished and get it out there to viewers. But if you love what film can do, if you are inspired to get audiences feeling and thinking in this time of struggle and strife, then it is worth it. And the person that I make sure is transformed with every film I make is me, the person making the artwork. Never forget that artists are transformed by every work they make. My latest film Time Passages is about my struggle to come to terms the my fraught relationship to my mother who suffered from late stage dementia during the summer of 2020, when the world was reeling from COVID and we were all separated from each other. It’s the story of our family, but also the story of what the nation went through. And it’s a musical of sorts! That’s the entertaining part, the sugar mixed with the spice, that you always need to draw audiences into your work, your world.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
The Menil Collection, the Heights and Montrose area. We also check out CAM and MFAH, cause Houston is a center of art. I’d also take them to Galveston, a place I love and used to go to often while I was a student at Rice University to clear my mind and dance the night away!

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I think all the filmmakers who have struggle to create personal works in an impersonal industry, to go “against the grain,” to challenge audiences to think for themselves, to engage in the difficulty of life is who I give this shoutout to, in particular: Agnes Varda, Louis Malle, Lyndsay Anderson, Todd Haynes and Houston’s own Jonathan Couette. Finally, all those who struggle to put these film’s in front of audiences and provide places for viewers to talk to makers, like Marian Luntz at Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Charles Dove at Rice Cinema.

Website: https://www.timepassagesfilm.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timepassagesfilm/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timepassagesfilm/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2BVhhWuXk

Image Credits
All photos courtesy AOK Productions LLC

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