1391: The Touch Of The Masters Hand - A Sundance Film by Gregory Barnes
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Gregory Barnes is a Mormon filmmaker and artist raised in Oak Park, Illinois. He studied film at BYU and served a Mormon mission in Argentina. Raised a faithful Mormon, Gregory was influenced by the comedic absurdity of exiting that Jell-O-obsessed desert religion.
Gregory currently is a Master’s Student at TISCH at NYU where he made his most recent short film The Touch of the Master’s Hand -- a dark comedy about a Mormon missionary who confesses an unusual pornography addiction to his mission president. The film premieres at the Sundance Film Festival this week.
Gregory's work has been featured by NPR, Playboy, and Pitchfork.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host Sean Delin. It is January 29th, |
| 0:06.2 | 2021 and we are we are super excited. I am super excited for |
| 0:10.6 | today's guest today's guest is |
| 0:14.6 | Gregory Barnes a name that may not be familiar with many of you, but you know, just wait a few years five maybe ten |
| 0:22.5 | He will be as well known to you as Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese |
| 0:26.8 | Gregory Barnes is a Mormon filmmaker and artist raised in Oak Park, Illinois |
| 0:33.3 | Gregory Barnes studied film at BYU and served a Mormon mission in Argentina |
| 0:37.7 | He was raised a faithful Mormon and he says he was influenced by the comedic absurdity of exiting that |
| 0:44.4 | Jello based obsessed desert culture |
| 0:47.0 | You're probably wondering I can hear you asking yourself why John are you interviewing Gregory Barnes? |
| 0:52.9 | Well, I'll tell you the answer is not only is Gregory Barnes currently a master student at Tish at |
| 1:00.4 | NYU New York University, which is notable because it's one of the two epic |
| 1:06.0 | Universities in the United States to study film along with USC, but Gregory with his colleagues recently created a short film |
| 1:14.9 | entitled The Touch of the Master's Hand they entered it into the Sundance film festival and were accepted |
| 1:21.7 | The Touch of the Master's Hand is a dark comedy about a Mormon missionary who confesses an unusual pornography addiction to his mission president |
| 1:30.6 | The film premieres again this week at Sundance Film Festival |
| 1:34.4 | Gregory's work has been featured by National Public Radio |
| 1:38.0 | Playboy, which is not necessarily very Mormon or maybe it is and pitchfork so without any further ado Gregory Barnes |
| 1:45.1 | Fellow Kouger welcome to |
| 1:46.9 | Mormon Stories podcast. Howdy. Thanks for having me on John and go Kougs go Kougers rising shout |
| 1:54.6 | All right, so this is super cool. I have had the pleasure of |
| 1:58.6 | once being involved in a movie that made the Sundance film festival and it's no small deal |
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