Former frontiersman donated 20 acres of land for the university. In 1885, he was an officer of Citizen’s National Bank, which was renamed First National in 1890.
River of Grass to
First Cow.
ON RIVER OF GRASS – «When I look at that film, I think I am very aware of the films I was watching, and my influences are very much on my sleeve as a young filmmaker. It’s lucky that I shot in the neighbourhoods I knew, which now I shoot very far away from, a place I don’t know so I can be in a new place, but I think for that film it was good that I was sticking to something I did know: streets, highways I knew; all the places and interiors were all places I knew because I was still borrowing so heavily and looking at other people’s work, including Jarmusch. Thinking of cinematography, I was not yet schooled in lenses, so every set-up of every camera was letting me know what I didn’t know and what I needed to figure out. A lot of those landscapes don’t exist anymore in Miami. Some of them, such as the hotel we filmed in, were gone weeks after we shot. If I were ever to go back to my work, which I never do, it would be interesting to see th