TWIG Media Lab

After You Get Back follows two best friends searching for a way forward after life has been interrupted. Fresh out of an inpatient mental health stay, Quinn has one idea, run away to the Oregon coast. Margo, her best friend, agrees to go with her, and what begins as a spontaneous escape becomes a journey neither of them quite knows how to navigate. As the miles pass, their plans unravel. Difficult conversations surface. Old wounds and uncertain futures begin to follow them down the road. Somewhere between where they came from and where they thought they were going, Quinn and Margo are left asking the same question, where do we go from here?

Begun in 2022, Illusion of Abundance (IOA) is a grassroots racial, social and climate justice project. It exposes a climate and culture in crisis due to the declining Great Salt Lake. IOA illuminates the historical erasure of the natural world and indigenous knowledge systems that hold innovative and necessary concepts available for saving our climate holistically. Through dance, prose, intertribal interviews and song, research, and stunning cinematography of Utah’s waterways and the nature it supports, IOA immerses you in the possibility of positive change and building paradigms to include underrepresented voices in stewardship, artistry and decision making around natural resources, land use, and climate.