The Illinois Parables
Deborah Stratman
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Synopsis
A suite of Midwestern parables that questions the historical role belief has played in ideology and national identity. Using archive imagery, testimony, verbal and dramatic re-enactment, voiceover and on-screen text, each regional vignette relays a tale of exodus, messianism, technological breakthrough or resistance somewhere in the state of Illinois. Both deeply local and universally allegorical, The Illinois Parables hint at a secular liturgical form.
Info
- Country United States
- Year 2016
- Format Digital
- Running time 60 min
- Image BW/Colour
- Language English
- Subtitles Catalan
- Production company Pythagoras Film
- Producer Deborah Stratman
- Screenplay Deborah Stratman
- Photography Deborah Stratman
- Editor Deborah Stratman
- Music Okkyung Lee, Olivia Block, Jeanne Demessieux, Arvo Pärt, Les Porte-Mentaux, Gurdjieff & DeHartmann, Barry Adamson
- Sound Deborah Stratman
- Actors C. Felton Jennings II, José Oubrerie, Daniel Verdier, David Gatten, Anna Toborg
Festivals
Sundance Film Festival Berlinale Forum Special Mention - L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Prize - 42nd LA Film Critics Association Awards Stan Brakhage Award - Ann Arbor Film FestivalPresented by Deborah Stratman 15/11