It may have taken a non-American (in this case the Spaniard Lluis Escartin) to make the American landscape look even more American. The beauty of decay and desolation as a set for a painful monologue about the decline of what seemed such a flourishing empire. The tramp-philosopher Johnson Frisco is not contradicted during his litany, but the images tell their own story.
Also in this combined programme
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ONE YEAR LATER – Interviews and Radio
On the road through America passing tourist landscapes. One year after September 11, the date comes round again. At least it does on the radio. -
Letters, Conversations: New York – Chicago Fall 2001
Personal impressions of a changing world. E-mails, letters and diary fragments augment the images after September 11 and the war in Afghanistan. -
A Room with a View in the Financial District
Before it all happened, an artist looked around the WTC in New York. In retrospect, it all looks very spooky. -
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Independent Media in a Time of War
Yes, it’s war and then it’s not in the national interest to show everything, is it? But didn’t it all come down to the freedom…
Film details
- Country of production
- Spain
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2004
- Length
- 17'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
