Allison Janae Hamilton is an artist and filmmaker whose cinematic work is defined by its haunting visual language, atmospheric world-building, and mythic engagement with the natural world. As a writer-director, she is deeply influenced by the rural American South: she was born in Kentucky, raised in Florida, and her maternal family’s farm and homestead lie in the flatlands of western Tennessee. Hamilton’s relationship with these landscapes forms a cornerstone of her work, particularly her interest in how the American landscape contributes to our ideas of “Americana.”