North by Current
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.
Year: 2021
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Field of Vision, Ford Foundation / JustFilms, Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Institute, American Documentary, Open Society Foundations, Catapult Film Fund
Director: Angelo Madsen
Cast:
Crew: Angelo Madsen (Director), Julien Baker (Music Arranger)
Runtime: 86 minutes
Release: Mar 01, 2021
IMDb: 6.00/10 by 5 users
Popularity: 2
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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