O'er the Land
ticketsFilm Information:
Year:
2009
O'er the Land
País:
Director:
Deborah StratmanColor:
Color
Format:
16 mm
Duration:
52 min
Cast:
- INTÉRPRETES: Rob Kelly
Production:
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Deborah Stratman
- MONTAJE: Deborah Stratman
- PRODUCCIÓN: Deborah Stratman
Contact:
- Pythagoras Films
- Deborah Stratman
- 1958 W. Walnut St.
- 60612 Chicago, IL, USA
- T +1 312 243 1227
- E delta@pythagorasfilm.com
- W www.pythagorasfilm.com
Synopsis
With an oscillating rhythm that combines contemplative images with narrative bursts of amazing intensity, Deborah Stratman’s new film walks an increasingly common road within the field of contemporary documentary (Jem Cohen, Jenni Olson); although she reaches rarely visited lands, which are still new and unclassifiable. In its 50 minutes, O’er the Land builds a topographic essay on the identity of the United States in times of dubious patriotism; an essay that discards denunciation as a possible and instantaneous argumentative form, and goes beyond the surface of what it observes in order to reveal a personal ambiguity that, somehow, characterizes the complex national feeling of certain parts of the American artistic community. Because, just like in the rebelliously romantic perspectives of Kerouac or Ginsberg (and Whitman), O’er the Land features a passion for a past that is still worth fighting for: kind of like trusting there will be light at the end of the tunnel. And also enough rigor to never lose sight of it.
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