Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Tennessee outsider artist Billy Tripp has constructed a massive steel sculpture for the past 33 years, and is finally setting his sights on retirement. Brownsville native Randall Kendrick examines Tripp’s life and work as he builds one of the final pieces of his ever expanding sculpture, The Mindfield.
Filmed and edited over the course of 2021 and 2022, The Steel Garden had its debut premiere at the 2023 Hub City Film Festival where it won the audience award for Best Documentary. It was an official selection of The 2023 California Capitol International Documentary Film Festival and had a special screening hosted by the city of Brownsville, TN where Randall Kendrick and Billy Tripp were presented with awards from the mayor.
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The Steel Garden © 2023 by Randall Kendrick is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
Tennessee outsider artist Billy Tripp has constructed a massive steel sculpture for the past 33 years, and is finally setting his sights on retirement. Brownsville native Randall Kendrick examines Tripp’s life and work as he builds one of the final pieces of his ever expanding sculpture, The Mindfield.
Filmed and edited over the course of 2021 and 2022, The Steel Garden had its debut premiere at the 2023 Hub City Film Festival where it won the audience award for Best Documentary. It was an official selection of The 2023 California Capitol International Documentary Film Festival and had a special screening hosted by the city of Brownsville, TN where Randall Kendrick and Billy Tripp were presented with awards from the mayor.
This film is available for download via torrent. The torrent comes with exclusive photos and videos that will not be made available anywhere else. Download here:
tinyurl.com/mv6trfny
Log and review The Steel Garden on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/film/the-steel-garden
Follow TSG on social media:
https://bsky.app/profile/thesteelgarden.bsky.social
facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576304074612
The Steel Garden © 2023 by Randall Kendrick is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
