The filmmaking duo David Redmon and Ashley Sabin produce, direct, shoot, and edit critically acclaimed documentary films that have been screened at international festivals and broadcast worldwide. A former Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard with a PhD in sociology from the University of Albany, David Redmon is now an independent filmmaker and artist working with film, VHS, digital video, and Polaroids. Fulbright Fellow Ashley Sabin earned a Master of Arts from Concordia University and a degree in art history from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Their body of work includes Kim's Video (2023), a film that plays with the forms and tropes of various cinematic genres; four animal ethnography films centered on the world of donkeys (Sanctuary, 2017; Do Donkeys Act?, 2017; Choreography, 2014; Herd, 2015); two cinematic poems exploring dreams and memory (Sentient 1 & 2, 2015–2016); a mechanical ballet in the snow (Neige, 2016); a series of films on post-industrialization in the United States (Downeast, 2012; Night Labor, 2013; Kingdom of Animal, 2012); a feature-length documentary on the world of teenage modeling (Girl Model, 2011); a film linking China and New Orleans through the globalized production of cheap disposable goods (Mardi Gras: Made in China, 2005); and two "carnivalesque" films set in Louisiana (Kamp Katrina, 2007; Invisible Girlfriend, 2009).
_Night Labor_ follows Sherman Frank Merchant, a forty-six year old 6'6" Downeaster during his transition from an independent and rugged clam digger by day to manning a factory at night. With his white smock, arsenal of knives, and signature black beret, Sherman performs the tasks of preparing and arranging tools for the day laborers who arrive to their 6am shift.
_Night Labor_ follows Sherman Frank Merchant, a forty-six year old 6'6" Downeaster during his transition from an independent and rugged clam digger by day to manning a factory at night. With his white smock, arsenal of knives, and signature black beret, Sherman performs the tasks of preparing and arranging tools for the day laborers who arrive to their 6am shift.