Tim Erskine

Tim Erskine is an artist, musician, and mechanical engineer, but is most fulfilled employing these talents creating movies. After spending much of his career as a mechanical engineer and inventor on over sixty patents, he created a sound studio and editing theater in Door County to enable his lifelong desire to produce all the films in his head. Tim grew up in Chicago with five siblings, inspired by his artist mother and nuclear physicist father. Growing up, he regularly coerced his large family into producing elaborate home movies. Several of these were filmed in Door County, Wisconsin during family vacations visiting relatives in Jacksonport, where the local park bears the Erskine family name. At age ten his passion for story telling blossomed after his father gave him a cassette recorder. With this Tim created an improvised, mock radio show making up stories on the spot, with complex, science fiction, mystery, or comedic themes. In practicing the use of their new studio, two short films, A Day in the Life of Neutron the Cat, and The Case of the Tainted Cheese Curds have emerged and enjoyed acclaim at the Door County Film Festival. In order to create more realistic scenes of a spaceship and alien power generator for The Emissary, critical of the limits of CGI special effects, Tim built full scale models which are now taking up most of the room in his garage. Tim enjoys living year-round in Door County with his wife, Holly, a chemistry professor and author, and five cats. Holly helps with production, editing, and acting, while the cats just get in the way.