A Wall to A Lighthouse

A Wall to A Lighthouse invites you to process the idea of America, coast-to-coast and face-to-face. In 2023, Greg walked 4,167 miles from the border wall between California and Mexico to the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, where Maine meets Canada. This interactive video-music-storytelling performance is the culmination of a linear journey and several years of processing, spiraling into the here and now. Greg asks: Who am I, as reflected in hundreds of strangers? Who are we, in this construct we’ve named America? And what does that mean for us today, in a country reckoning with its identity and its demons?

Greg Grano is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and musician. His work translates firsthand experiences with unfamiliar people, places, and natural forces, creating a dialogue between self and setting. His feature documentary American Bear: An Adventure in the Kindness of Strangers explores national identity through a two-month road trip and social experiment. It screened at over 75 theaters and schools across the country before its digital release. His short films I’m A Tree and Secrets and Seeds have been featured in galleries and at UC Berkeley’s Earth Action Initiative. Greg has taught filmmaking and media literacy at LA County High School for the Arts, LACMA, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Rio Hondo College, Fullerton College, and the Denver Film Festival. He currently teaches in SOU’s Digital Cinema program, and at Ashland Middle School. The memoir about his cross-country walk will be released in Fall 2026.