American Passages

American Passages reveals some of the movements in society which finally result in the election of Donald Trump. At the same time the film is an impressive road-traveling collage of the U.S. at the advent of the Obama era. Although the film was ostensibly made to honor Robert Frank‘s famed 1958 photo essay, ”The Americans,“ no knowledge of that work is necessary to grasp Beckermann’s aims: snapshot cinematic views of a massive country in a moment in time, spanning races, classes and geographies like a peripatetic anthropologist. (Robert Koehler)



Initially, there’s that moment of happiness: an African-American celebrating in Harlem...

Orig. Title
American Passages
Year
2011
Country
Austria
Duration
120 min
Director
Ruth Beckermann
Category
Documentary
Orig. Language
English
Subtitles
English, German
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