Stable

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Todd, Robert, filmmaker.

Canyon Cinema, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farms--Drama.

Farms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (7 min., 30 sec.)

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film

Place of Publication:

San Francisco Canyon Cinema 2003

Summary:

"The family-run farm is a staple of romantic Americana. Industrialization's reformation of our material and ideological makeup brought with it an idealized notion of the Farm as a point of origin and innocence, and in so doing created a cultural rift between agriculturists and bourgeois. Film's entry onto the cultural stage coincided with the high watermark of industrial hegemony in the Western world, and as a product of Industry, provided a new representational language for bourgeois culture. As such, the character of the lens through which the filmmaker posits the Farm has been either romantic or ethnographic. This film brings the aesthetics of that romanticism to a rather complicated crossroad, creating, through the maker's necessarily bourgeois eye and means, an ersatz cycle of life that resists simplicity. All image layering in this work was done in-camera." - RT"

Credits:

Robert Todd, filmmaker

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1343080639

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license