Being Here
Documentary (50 or 55 min.)

What if you had lived in seclusion for 30 years, and finally decided to show the world your true self? In the summer of 2003, Dan Horgan did just that. An environmental artist and garden designer, Horgan uses natural materials to create artwork in the mountains and on the beaches. Then he walks away. In the summer of 2003, though, he accepted an invitation to build one of his unusual pieces indoors, as part of a show of sculpture. The experience brought him squarely, and often humorously, into the land of neckties and cell phones. But in an almost magical way, it succeeded in casting Horgan’s long career in an entirely new and unexpected light, one which even he did not foresee.

Being Here offers an alternately touching, poignant and humorous glimpse into a world too often kept secret  the artist’s private world of creation. This spellbinding and touching doc shows how Horgan heals himself from the trauma of being a soldier in Vietnam by escaping into the wilderness to develop his unique style of art.