A Short Documentary About a Giant Pencil
“A Lake of the Isles homeowner and a Minneapolis chainsaw sculptor shape meaning (and a twenty foot tall pencil) from the twisted trunk of a fallen oak tree.”
2026•22m•Released
Documentary
A Lake of the Isles homeowner and a Minneapolis chainsaw sculptor shape meaning (and a twenty foot tall pencil) from the twisted trunk of a fallen oak tree. But this pencil isn’t meant to last. Every year, thousands gather to sacrifice a part of the pencil in a sharpening ceremony, and in the process renew the collective promise to “do something.”
Director
Daniel Straub
Writer
Daniel Straub, Austin Straub
Studio
archilux
Cast
John Higgins
Amy Higgins
Curtis Ingvoldstad
LOTI Pencil
Production
Company
archilux
Producer
Austin Straub
Producer
Daniel Straub
Producer
Bryce Cyrier
Recommended
7.9
My Mom Jayne
2025
6.9
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
2026
6.8
The Crash
2026
6.1
Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste
2022
7.2
Daft Punk Unchained
2015
7.3
I Am Divine
2014
6.9
Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett
2021
6.4
A Toxic Love Story
2026
6.2
Seduced and Abandoned
2013
6.7
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
2025
6.7
The Twister: Caught in the Storm
2025
7.9
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
7.4
Frank and Ollie
1995
6.3
Sherman's March
1986
7.5
28 Up
1985
7.5
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
2018
7.1
Come See Me in the Good Light
2025
7.2
Maternal Instinct
2026
7.9
Tupac: Resurrection
2003
8.2
Baraka
1992
Similar Movies
Art and Life in Italy
1950
Resistance Sahara
2022
The Atelier of Paul Hugo ten Hoopen
2025
Seeking The Lost Paradise
2025
Namatjira Project
2017
6.8
Secret Mall Apartment
2025
8
David Choe: High Risk
2015
6.6
I'm in Love with Pippa Bacca
2020
Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
2019
Alison Watt: Phantom
2008
7
Metamorphose: M.C. Escher, 1898-1972
1999
10
Pictura
1951
J'ai peint des Vermeer
1950
Art in Ethiopia
1983
Freeze: But is it Art?
1994
9
Enrico Caruso: A Voice for the Ages
2022
The Flood
2021
10
The Renaissance of Mata Ortiz
2010
Electronic Poem
1958
Ladislav Jurovatý - majster drôtu a železa
1999