Charles Lyman
Directing
Known For

Composed of images from night performances on the Electric Stonehenge Theater in Brooksville, Florida. Evokes spirits of the animals on a foggy spring night on a hilltop farm.
Wet Weather

The life and times of master film artist Will Hindle. Featuring his ruined studio in the backwoods of Blountsville, Alabama, and his time as a teacher at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Journeys in the Kingdom of Shadows

With the singer/song-writer James Taylor (aka James McCandless), an extended music video set above and below Florida rivers, and in a ruined monastery. Features "You Shouldn't Have to Fell Such Pain" and other Taylor songs.
Two Songs

Short experimental film made by Columbia College students David Szabo and Charles Lyman, which won a First Place Hugo award at the Chicago International Film Festival in the undergraduate category. "From a passage in Moby Dick. The small Black cabinboy from the Pequod is castaway in the ocean, and goes mad before he can be rescued. His mind is carried down alive to wonderous depths where the strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glide to and fro before his passive eyes... Man's insanity is Heaven's sense, and Pip becomes as indifferent, uncompromised as his god." - Center Cinema Co-op Filmmakers Distribution Catalog, 1972.
Castaway

A Journal of Dreams. An underground journal of an artist new to Florida but brought up in New England. Allusions to the space race, the moon, Christmas in Florida, mermaids and sunsets, and other hallucinations.
Just Coincidence
Documentary about the excavation of Ancient Sardis.