Invisible Girlfriend

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Redmon, David, filmmaker.

Sabin, Ashley, filmmaker.

Carnivalesque Films (Firm), Distributor.

Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary-style films.

Sociology.

Genre:

North American Studies

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Other Title:

Invisible Girlfriend

Place of Publication:

Carnivalesque Films, 2009.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Winner of the Ripping Reality Award at the Hot Docs Film Festival, this Southern tale transcends literal interpretations of images in order to open up rich, loamy textures of humor and drama.. Working within the tradition of creative non-fiction, Invisible Girlfriend follows Charles as he rides his big red bicycle 400 miles through rural Louisiana to find his invisible girlfriend, Joan of Arc, in a New Orleans bar. Along the way, he encounters a farmer, a witch, a tin man, and a man who honors the dead.. With cinematography startling in its intensity and violent beauty, Invisible Girlfriend captures the odd characters and unique characteristics of what might be called the Southern Gothic world.. Winner of the Ripping Reality Award: Hot Docs Film Festival, Ron Tibbett Award for Excellence in Film: Magnolia Film Festival. “INVISIBLE GIRLFRIEND is a textbook example of what can result when savvy documentarians fortuitously connect (or, in this case, reconnect) with an interesting subject at precisely the right moment.... Final scenes are genuinely heart wrenching.” - Joe Leydon, Variety. “A surprising and profoundly compassionate road trip about an America struggling to get back on its feet, with filmmakers Ashley Sabin and David Redmon working at the intersection of Flannery O'Connor Avenue and Werner Herzog Boulevard.” - Ty Burr, The Boston Globe

Participant:

Joan of Arc, Charles Fihoil

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Film

In Process Record.

Originally produced by Carnivalesque Films in 2009.

OCLC:

1035096781