Over the Land (18+)
USA, 2009, colour, 52 min.
Director: Deborah Stratman
Director: Deborah Stratman
A meditation on the milieu of elevated threat addressing national identity, gun culture, wilderness, consumption, patriotism and the possibility of personal transcendence. Of particular interest are the ways Americans have come to understand freedom and the increasingly technological reiterations of manifest destiny.
AWARDS
L’Alternativa International Film Festival, Barcelona: Best Documentary Feature, CPH:DOX International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen: New Vision Award, Cinema Eye Honors: Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Nominee, Ann Arbor Film Festival: Ken Burns Award for Best of Festival, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival: Best in Festival, Images Festival, Toronto: Best International Film, Les Rencontres Cinématographiques, Cerbère, France: Special Mention.
Deborah Stratman
Deborah Stratman
is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Much of her work points to the relationship between physical environments and human struggles for power and control that play out on the land. Most recently, they have questioned elemental historical narratives about faith, freedom, sonic subterfuge, expansionism, and the paranormal. Stratman works in multiple mediums, including sculpture, photography, installation, drawing, and audio.
FILMOGRAPHY
«Hetty To Nancy», 1997; «The BLVD», 1999; «Untied», 2001; «In Order Not To Be Here», 2002; «Energy Country», 2003; «Kings Of The Sky», 2004; «How Among The Frozen Words», 2005; «It Will Die Out In The Mind», 2006; «The Magician's House», 2007; «The Memory», 2008; «O'er The Land», 2009; «Kuyenda N’kubvina», 2010; «FF», 2010; «Shrimp Chicken Fish», 2010; «Ray’s Birds», 2010; «...These Blazeing Starrs!», 2011; «Village, silenced», 2012; «The Name is not the Thing named», 2012; «Musical Insects», 2013.
USA, 2009, colour, 52 min.
Director: Deborah Stratman
Director: Deborah Stratman
A meditation on the milieu of elevated threat addressing national identity, gun culture, wilderness, consumption, patriotism and the possibility of personal transcendence. Of particular interest are the ways Americans have come to understand freedom and the increasingly technological reiterations of manifest destiny.
AWARDS
L’Alternativa International Film Festival, Barcelona: Best Documentary Feature, CPH:DOX International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen: New Vision Award, Cinema Eye Honors: Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Nominee, Ann Arbor Film Festival: Ken Burns Award for Best of Festival, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival: Best in Festival, Images Festival, Toronto: Best International Film, Les Rencontres Cinématographiques, Cerbère, France: Special Mention.