Recalling Abbas Kiarostami in the organic progression of a deceptively mundane, yet insightful and life affirming conversation between a driver and passenger, video artist Robert Frank accompanies his amiable and disciplined local newpaper delivery man on his morning paper route on a brisk winter day through the artist’s bucolic hometown in Nova Scotia. Simple, compassionate and engaging, the video is a reverent and indelible portrait of a humble existence and vanishing way of life that not only serves as the isolated residents’ literal source of information about the world around them, but also their human connection to the metaphoric ‘collective soul’ of the rural community.
Also in this combined programme
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Toccata
A house, a city in Italy; the traffic and movements of people become visible filmed in the present. But the images embrace a living and… -
Meditations on Revolution, part V: Foreign City
New York as a place of immigration and rootlessness, with the abstract black & white images slowly focusing on the artist and jazz musician Marion… -
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Mekong
This song of desire investigates the overlapping sensations of intimacy and erotic desire in the Mekong delta. -
Elements
This film refers to the natural elements, that are variable and even capricious, but also to social elements.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Canada, Switzerland
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 24'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL