Director's Works
Voices of God Cole Borgstadt
Now living in Los Angeles, Cole Borgstadt is a director / editor from Fayetteville, Arkansas who works primarily in the commercial space, specifically with branded documentary work. As a burgeoning narrative director, Cole brings a keen storytelling instinct and an eye for strong imagery to every project.
In high school, there were three boys in my year who were arrested for putting pipe bombs in people’s mailboxes. This film is really a fictionalization of that event as well as a reflection on my upbringing in Arkansas. While the events in the story are not particularly autobiographical, the characters’ relationship to vulnerability and spiritual questioning is. I think I grew up adjacent to these characters. In a small way, this served as a chance to explore this disposition I felt growing up towards silence in the face of vulnerability. We were fortunate enough to host this production in my hometown of Fayetteville with a half local, half LA crew. It was such a joy. I hadn’t shot something narrative in Arkansas since high school, so to be able to create in that environment at this scale was special. Exploring the texture and landscape of where I grew up was really gratifying.