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Long story short / a film by Natalie Bookchin.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--California.
- Poor.
- Homeless persons--California.
- Homeless persons.
- Homelessness--California.
- Homelessness.
- California.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (45 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- In the moving and immersive film Long Story Short, over 100 people at homeless shelters, food banks, adult literacy programs, and job training centers in Los Angeles and the Bay Area in Northern California discuss their experiences of poverty: why they are poor, how it feels, and what they think should be done about American poverty and homelessness today. Numerous interviews are stitched together to form a polyphonic account of American poverty told from the inside. MacArthur Grantee Natalie Bookchin, an artist whose work has been shown at the Pompidou Centre, the Whitney Museum and the Tate, uses the film to amplify the voices of the displaced and dispossessed. While individuals whom Bookchin filmed in separate spaces appear onscreen in their own visual spaces, mirroring the isolation of their experiences, words flow between them like a musical ensemble. Together in the film for the first time, Americans who are rarely acknowledged or listened to form a virtual collective.
- Credits:
- Director, editor, producer, Natalie Bookchin.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Mass Produced Media Production, ©2016.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 9, 2016).
- Publisher Number:
- if-long Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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