An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925, 2012, 10 min
Sasha Waters Freyer, Iowa CIty, IA
Films in Competition, Short Film
An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925 is a lyrical essay film which captures the spirit of excess and adventure embodied by The Great Gatsby (published in 1925) in fragments from home movies of a wealthy American family abroad in Europe and North Africa – illuminating truth as historically fleeting a la Walter Benjamin’s dialectical image. This subversive, amateur ethnography contemplates the human condition found in this ephemera – a condition which, as we already know, defies conclusive explanation…
World Premiere, 16mm
Directed by Sasha Waters Freyer (Iowa CIty, IA)
Showing:
Saturday, March 31 3:30pm
Films in Competition 7
New non-fiction films from Sasha Waters Freyer, Richard Wiebe and Robert Fenz among others.
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